Have you been to see them play yet?  If the answer is no, you don’t have a lot of time to make it… but you need to go.

If you’re wowed by watching outstanding freshmen, the A’dia Mathies is a player you need to check out.  The reigning Kentucky Miss Basketball probably could have gone anywhere, but she stayed home and Matthew Mitchell is already reaping the benefits.

She had 27 points at Arkansas Sunday.  She’s a freshman in the SEC!

It’s also fun to watch these ladies play defense because they play it hard.  Coach Mitchell put such an emphasis on defense preseason and that continues now.  Everyday in practice, if you mess up defensively, you’re running.

This is a team that won just 16 games last year.  They’ve already won 20.  It’s only the tenth time in school history that they’ve won 20 games.  Now I’m not saying they can’t perennially be one of the top teams in the conference, but it hasn’t happened yet with any sort of staying power, so this is indeed a special season.

Spend the couple of bucks to get you in the game.  You won’t be disappointed.

I know there’s a lot of good basketball to watch in Lexington… but if you can catch a Campbellsville women’s game… you won’t be disappointed.

Whitney Ballinger was named the national player of the week… and that’s not all!

Check out her story here.

Abney on SEC “All-Decade Team”: Former Wildcat Derek Abney was named to the Southeastern Conference “All-Decade Team” selected by Chris Low on ESPN.com.

The SEC All-Decade Team covered the 2000-09 seasons with the only rule being that a player had to participate in at least two seasons of the time period.

Abney, who played from 2000-03, was chosen as a kickoff returner.  He averaged 24.4 yards per kickoff return during his career, with touchdown returns of 100 yards vs. Florida and 95 yards vs. Vanderbilt.

Abney also was a great punt returner and wide receiver.  All totaled he broke or tied seven NCAA records, 11 SEC records and 14 school records for kickoff returns, punt returns and all-purpose yardage.

Brandon Knight, the top point guard in the country, visited Miami this weekend, but two sources are telling zagsblog.com that he will commit to Kentucky.

Here is the story.

The Phillies and former UK pitcher Joe Blanton are trying to work out a deal right now, but Blanton wants over $10 million a year.  The Phillies really aren’t close.

Check it out.

Not only that… because that’s not really a surprise.  John Wall is on everyone’s All-American team.  But ESPN’s Jay Bilas has John Calipari as his coach of the year to this point.  Bilas says the job Cal has done is nothing short of amazing.

Click here to read the entire story.

Didn’t remember this comment right off the bat… but this summer after Calipari had been hired and preseason polls ranking Kentucky in the top 5 had been released, Florida’s Kenny Boynton disagreed.

He said Florida would be better than UK.  Tonight, he’ll get a chance to either back that up or eat his words.

Check out this column by Gary Parrish on Boynton.

ESPN’s Andy Katz talked to the NCAA chair of officiating… who said after reviewing the first 45 seconds of the Louisville-Kentucky game, the refs made the right call by NOT throwing Demarcus Cousins out of the game.

Check out the full story here.

According to nfldraftbible.com… five Kentucky Wildcats have been invited to the NFL combine.  They are Corey Peters, John Conner, Micah Johnson, Sam Maxwell and Trevard Lindley.

To see the full list click here.

So you’ve probably heard that former UK player Alex Legion, who transferred to Illinois just a few games into his freshman year, is transferring again.

Looks like it was less of a Gillispie thing and more of a Legion thing, as he wasn’t much of a help for the Illini once he became eligible.

Evan Daniels of Scout.com says while it’s not confirmed yet, he believes Legion will end up at Florida International, where Isaiah Thomas is the coach.