Kentucky Basketball: ESPN and CBS high on Wildcats entering 2022-23 season

When the 2024 NCAA tournament rolls around, will Kentucky be included? For a bracketology breakdown and a look at its tournament resume, keep scrolling. Want to bet on Kentucky's upcoming games or futures options? Head to BetMGM to see what is available! Odds to win the national championship: +2000 Preseason national championship…

It's the final week of the year, and college basketball is about to transition from nonconference to conference mode. While the season's first couple months have taught us some lessons about the contenders and pretenders in the sport, the jury still out on several programs and coaches. How about first-year Ole Miss coach Chris Beard? The Rebels are…

Although the Cardinals enter as touchdown favorites for this Week 13 clash at home, we expect the battle-tested Wildcats to put up a tough fight on the national TV stage. Read more in our Kentucky vs. Louisville betting picks. The battle for the Governor's Cup renews on Saturday afternoon as the 6-5 Kentucky Wildcats head up I-64 to take on the…

For a second straight season the Kentucky football team is limping towards the finish line. Once undefeated, it now sits at 6-5. On Saturday they have a huge opportunity to end a disappointing season on a positive note. The Wildcats will head up I-64 for a rivalry battle with the Louisville Cardinals. Let's preview the game and give you a score…

This game felt different in the preseason. Kentucky garnered summertime praise and was listed as one of the potential risers in the SEC. Alabama was doubted due to the void of a proven QB1 and faced with replacing the nation's best offensive and defensive players. The Cats started strong but sputtered in October after three consecutive losses.…

Mid-Major basketball programs - and their threat of David-vs.-Goliath upsets of big-name programs - make the NCAA Tournament a unique and enormously profitable event. Low-major programs help keep the industry strong filling out the non-conference home schedules of power conference schools. This season Missouri hosts Arkansas-Pine Bluff, SIU…

You want fireworks? Missouri and Kentucky is the game for you. But, with plenty of back-and-forth scoring, will either side be able to pull away? Find out where our college football picks think your best bet is. Two SEC East contenders coming off their first losses of the season clash on Saturday night in Lexington as the Missouri Tigers and…

Less than month remains until the start of the college basketball season - men's and women's both - and as such preseason projections/predictions are in, via ESPN's bracketologoy. These predictions are for NCAA Tournament inclusion only, with Joe Lunardi's men's bracket being updated on Tuesday, while Charlie Creme's women's bracket received a…

Despite the Wildcats boasting home-field advantage on Saturday, we expect the Gators front seven to be the main X-factor. Read more as we break down this upcoming SEC clash in our Florida vs. Kentucky betting picks. It's a massive weekend in Kentucky, as sports betting went live on Thursday for the first time. And it's perfect timing, as the…

The Kentucky Wildcats have clear frontcourt flaws with five-star center Aaron Bradshaw and sophomore standout Ugonna Onyenso both having had foot surgery and set for lengthy recoveries. While Bradshaw is likely going to be back earlier than Onyenso, the Wildcats took no chance and brought in 7-foot-2 center Zvonimir Ivisic. It was a great addition…

The 2023 schedule is not kind to the Wildcats. The Kentucky football team has the 13th most difficult in the country, according to ESPN's FPI. Even so, Mark Stoops' team is projected to be an underdog of a touchdown or more in only three of those games. Can Kentucky turn those preseason deficits into upsets? Let's dream big, Big Blue Nation. The…

The Kentucky Wildcats have been a perennial bowl-making team since Mark Stoops took over the program. Filling the shoes of Will Levis will be no easy task, but Devin Leary is set to take over. The Cats are again expected to be competitive in the challenging SEC. How competitive is a completely different question, as Levis' last season in Kentucky…

It will take longer than usual to find Gonzaga when scanning the preliminary college basketball rankings for the 2024 season. In one poll, you won't find Gonzaga at all. The Zags have been a fixture in the top 10 and usually in the top five in various way-too-early polls released at the conclusion of every college basketball season, but that's not…

After an exciting Thursday and Friday of college basketball action, we are down to the final eight teams in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. March Madness has lived up to its name, with plenty of thrilling upsets including No. 1 seed Alabama and Houston going home and great performances from some of the biggest stars in the nation. Now, the…

It took 33 years for a 16-seed to knock off a 1-seed: when UMBC beat Virginia in the 2018 NCAA tournament. It took only five years for a second 16-seed to do it, with Fairleigh Dickinson stunning the country by beating Purdue in the first round on Friday night 63-58. While UMBC made history as the first 16-seed to beat a 1-seed, Fairleigh Dickinson…

When the 2022-23 college basketball season began, Kentucky, a preseason top-5 team, had visions of earning a No. 1 seed in the South Region in order to play de facto home games in the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 in the nearby KFC Yum! Center, which is positioned in Louisville, just 70 miles west of Lexington. The Wildcats played NCAA Tournament games in…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) - In most markets the howling about making the NCAA men's basketball tournament begins in March. This isn't most college basketball markets. Never has been. Never will be. The howling about the NCAA Tournament outlook for John Calipari's sagging University of Kentucky team whipped into overdrive Tuesday night. That will…

Saturday afternoon, the Alabama Crimson Tide (12-2, 2-0 SEC; Kenpom: 8; T-Rank: 9; NET: 8) plays host to the Kentucky Wildcats (10-4, 1-1 SEC; Kenpom: 16; T-Rank: 35; NET: 36) in a game that matters significantly more to the'Cats than it does the Tide - in January. Quite the sentence to type out on this Friday morning, but it's true. Such is life…

Joe Lunardi knew the call was coming. And he knew the topic: Where is Villanova right now as it relates to the 2023 men's NCAA Tournament? Lunardi's normal seed listings on his ESPN brackets during the college basketball season go to 76 teams. The 68 teams in the tournament, plus eight on the outside. For today's subject, Lunardi had to add some…

There are many statistics that you could cherry-pick when trying to decipher the absolute calamity that has been Kentucky basketball so far this season. But one glaring stat stands out, as presented by ESPN insider Jeff Borzello: If you aren't in-tune with college basketball metrics such as KenPom, this can be broken down much simpler in layman's…

The Bulldogs are going to pounce all over a struggling Kentucky attack, especially early. See why Georgia's early flex on defense contributes to the best bet for one of Week 12's marquee college football matchups. One of four remaining undefeated teams in the country, the top-ranked Georgia Bulldogs put their 10-0 record on the line when they visit…

There's a lot of déjà vu for the Zags this season. Again, they're national championship contenders (ranked No. 2 in preseason polls). Again, Drew Timme returns and is the favorite to win national player of the year. And again, the team will only be judged by NCAA tournament results by most onlookers. With Julian Strawther, Rasir Bolton and Anton…

We're about a month away from the start of the 2022-23 college basketball season and the preseason polls have started trickling in. This week, ESPN's Jeff Borzello decided to release his official preseason top 25 ranking ahead of the new season starting. There are plenty of blue bloods in the top 10, though the reigning national champion didn't…

For the second straight season, the Gonzaga Bulldogs will open the men's NCAA tournament as the betting favorite. And for the second straight season, the top-ranked Zags remain the consensus favorite among both ESPN's panel of men's college basketball commentators, analysts and writers -- albeit by a smaller margin than in 2021 when Gonzaga entered…

As the final week of the year rolls on, so does an exciting college football bowl season. On Friday, the Clemson Tigers (8-4) and Kentucky Wildcats (7-5) will face off in this year's TaxSlayer Gator Bowl. Both teams are coming off of wins in their regular season finales and hope to cap off their year with a bowl win. Clemson has lost three of its…