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No. 2 Nebraska defeats No. 9 Kentucky on opening night

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August 28, 2024

No. 2 Nebraska defeats No. 9 Kentucky on opening night

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) – The No. 9 Kentucky Volleyball team opened the 2024 season by dropping a 3-1 (25-21, 22-25, 25-15, 25-20) decision to No. 2 Nebraska in the 2024 American Volleyball Coaches’ Association First Serve Showcase in the KFC Yum! Center. The match was the first volleyball match of the 2024 season across the country.

Nebraska got off to a strong start, hitting over .250 throughout the opening set and riding a late wave of momentum to take a 1-0 lead. The Wildcats responded back by taking set two with a 25-22 win and Nebraska won the final two sets to win the match 3-1.

The Wildcats got a match-high 19 kills from sophomore outside hitter Brooklyn DeLeye who had six digs and a trio of blocks in the match. Also reaching double figures in the match Tuesday night was Erin Lamb who had 14 terminations in the contest with three service aces to tag along with it.

Kentucky will now return home and get ready for one of the most momentous nights in program history as it opens the newly-renovated Historic Memorial Coliseum in Lexington after an 18-month project. The Wildcats will play Northern Kentucky at 6:30 p.m. ET Friday night in the Bluegrass Battle as part of the opening weekend tournament hosted by UK in Lexington. The match will be broadcasted on SEC Network+ and the ESPN app with Andrew Kappes calling the game on the UK Sports Network radio stations.

Set One

The match started brightly for Kentucky, who jumped out to a 1-0 lead thanks to a kill, the first of her career, from RS-freshman middle blocker, Jordyn Dailey. The Wildcats led a majority of the way, with their lead ballooning to as much as four at 15-11 during the opening media timeout of the set. Nebraska slowly began to close the gap on UK in the middle stanza of the frame with outside terminations and they were able to limit the Kentucky offense which was hitting over .300 at one point in the set. Nebraska tied the frame at 19-19 and then took four of the final five points to win the opening set, 25-21. Erin Lamb led the Wildcats offensively with five kills in the set and Brooklyn DeLeye had three kills to add to her total with Emma Grome dishing out 12 assists.

Set Two

Kentucky took set two behind more consistent hitting and attack from Erin Lamb, who ended the second set with nine kills on 16 swings with no errors and hitting a robust .562 for the match. Nebraska held an early three-point lead in the second but the offense of Asia Thigpen, a freshman from Pittsboro, North Carolina who pushed Kentucky to within two at 12-10 and pulled the Wildcats to within two points. The set was tied at 20-20 before Kentucky won two points behind a challenge win by Craig Skinner and a kill by Brooklyn DeLeye as Kentucky got on the doorstep of the set at 24-23. On the first set point, Kentucky’s Erin Lamb pounded home her ninth kill of the match and Kentucky squared things at 1-1 with a 25-23 second-set win.

Set Three

Nebraska came out of the locker room clicking on all cylinders as the Huskers took an early six-point lead at 12-6 that pushed the Wildcats into a timeout to try and stymie the offensive momentum by the Huskers. After UK won back-to-back points to close the gap to 17-9, the Huskers got on a run and grew their lead to 21-12 and saw things out from there to take a two sets to one lead over the Wildcats through three.

Set Four

The Huskers again jumped out to a multi-point lead early in the set the prompted the Wildcats to have to call their first timeout trailing by six at 9-3 in the fourth frame. The Huskers would go on to hit over .300 in the game and closed out the match 3-1 with a 25-20 fourth-set win.

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Kentucky Women’s Basketball gets historic win over No. 5 Oklahoma

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January 11, 2026

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Kentucky Women’s Basketball gets historic win over No. 5 Oklahoma

The No. 6 Kentucky Wildcats moved to 16-2 on the season after a massive win over the No. 5 Oklahoma Sooners by a final score of 63-57. Kenny Brooks’ squad’s successful season rolls on with a second top-five win, the most the UK women’s team has ever had in a single season.

The Wildcats pulled out a close win thanks to senior Tonie Morgan, who totaled 22 points (8/19 FG), eight rebounds, and four assists. Morgan also played all 40 minutes on Sunday evening against the Sooners as her stellar season continues.

The Wildcats also played strong defense all night. As a team, they totaled four steals and eight blocks. Clara Strack, the 6-foot-5 senior, led the team with three blocks. Strack also recorded her ninth double-double of the season. They held the Sooners to 24-67 shooting (36%) from FG range and 2-19 from deep (11%).

The Wildcats held the Sooners scoreless in the last four minutes and moved to 3-1 in SEC play and now have three top-25 wins this season after previously winning at Louisville and at LSU.

Between the transfer portal, a men’s basketball win, and a women’s basketball win, it has been a great weekend in the Bluegrass!

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Mark Pope updates injury status of Jayden Quaintance

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January 11, 2026

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Mark Pope updates injury status of Jayden Quaintance

The Kentucky Wildcats had to return to the court Saturday night without their star center in Jayden Quaintance.

Coming back to the court from an ACL tear last season, Quaintance shined in his opening game against St. John’s and has eased himself back into game-play after nine months off the court. That is why it came as a surprise on Friday night when he was listed as out on the injury report.

Well, we got some more insight into why he was held out against Mississippi State in the pregame radio show. When asked about the injury, here is what Mark Pope had to say.

“He’s (Quaintance) just had a little bit of swelling, so we’re just kind of monitoring it,” Pope said. “And the most important thing is just his health. So, it’s going to be a little start and stop as we go. That’s just the process.”

So, for now, it doesn’t sound like anything that will keep JQ out for too long, though it’s unknown if he’ll return for either of next week’s games at LSU and at Tennessee.

The Cats have started to piece it together in the front court, but there is no denying the potential Quaintance has. When healthy, he is an NBA lottery pick. Now let’s hope he can get back onto the court soon to help the Cats make a run.

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Kentucky vs Mississippi State score today, UK basketball game updates

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January 10, 2026

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Kentucky vs Mississippi State score today, UK basketball game updates

LEXINGTON — Two days after Kentucky basketball gave up a game-ending 15-2 run in a 73-68 loss to Missouri, Mark Pope was asked to explain what went wrong.

In a sense, Pope answered it with another question: What didn’t go wrong for his club in those final 4 ½ minutes?

“It was everything, actually,” Pope said during a news conference Friday. “It was so much misfortune. It was so much stuff in our wheelhouse that we inexplicably didn’t execute the way we normally do. It was some poor communication. It was some poor internalization of the scout. It was some missed shots. It was some coaching error.

“… (All) of those things lead to that terrible, terrible 4 ½ minutes.”

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After falling to 0-2 in SEC play for the first time in two decades (2005-06), the Wildcats have no time to feel sorry for themselves. And Pope won’t allow it.

“I think everybody has mental fatigue everywhere right now — if you’re putting your whole heart and soul into it,” he said of his team (9-6). “But that’s our job: to not let that have any impact on today or yesterday or tomorrow. One of the things I love about sports is it teaches you that you have to. It doesn’t matter how bad things get. You can’t go back and rewrite what happened.”

Kentucky only can look forward, which begins with tonight’s matchup with Mississippi State at Rupp Arena. The Bulldogs (10-5, 2-0) enter on a six-game win streak.

Courier Journal sports reporter Ryan Black is at Rupp Arena and will have live updates throughout the game — here and on X, formerly known as Twitter — and complete coverage after. You can follow him on X at @RyanABlack.

Follow along with live updates from today’s game between the Wildcats and Bulldogs below:

TV channel: SEC Network
Livestream: Fubo (free trial)

The game between the Wildcats and Bulldogs will air nationally on SEC Network.

Authenticated subscribers can access SEC Network via TV-connected devices or by going to WatchESPN.com or the WatchESPN app.

Those without cable can access SEC Network via streaming services, with Fubo offering a free trial.

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Betting odds: Kentucky is a 10 ⅟₂-point favorite (-112) on DraftKings, which set the over/under at 153 ⅟₂ points (-112/-108).

Tom Leach (play-by-play) and Jack Givens (analyst) will have the UK radio network call on 840 AM in Louisville and both 630 AM and 98.1 FM in Lexington.

You can also listen online via UKAthletics.com.

Oct. 17: Blue-White game (Click here to read takeaways from the intrasquad scrimmage.)
Oct. 24: exhibition vs. Purdue (Rupp Arena) ∣ SCORE: Kentucky 78, Purdue 65
Oct. 30: exhibition vs. Georgetown University (Rupp Arena) ∣ SCORE: Georgetown 84, Kentucky 70
Nov. 4: Nicholls (Rupp Arena) ∣ SCORE: Kentucky 77, Nicholls 51
Nov. 7: Valparaiso (Rupp Arena) | SCORE: Kentucky 107, Valparaiso 59
Nov. 11: at Louisville (KFC Yum! Center) | SCORE: Louisville 96, Kentucky 88
Nov. 14: Eastern Illinois (Rupp Arena) | SCORE: Kentucky 99, Eastern Illinois 53
Nov. 18: vs. Michigan State (Champions Classic; Madison Square Garden, New York) | SCORE: Michigan State 83, Kentucky 66
Nov. 21: Loyola University Maryland (Rupp Arena) | SCORE: Kentucky 88, Loyola Maryland 46
Nov. 26: Tennessee Tech (Rupp Arena) | SCORE: Kentucky 104, Tennessee Tech 54
Dec. 2: North Carolina (Rupp Arena; ACC/SEC Challenge) | SCORE: North Carolina 67, Kentucky 64
Dec. 5: vs. Gonzaga (Bridgestone Arena; Nashville) | SCORE: Gonzaga 94, Kentucky 59
Dec. 9: North Carolina Central (Rupp Arena) | SCORE: Kentucky 103, North Carolina Central 67
Dec. 13: Indiana (Rupp Arena) | SCORE: Kentucky 72, Indiana 60
Dec. 20: vs. St. John’s (CBS Sports Classic; State Farm Arena, Atlanta) | SCORE: Kentucky 78, St. John’s 66
Dec. 23: Bellarmine (Rupp Arena) | SCORE: Kentucky 99, Bellarmine 85
Jan. 3: at Alabama | SCORE: Alabama 89, Kentucky 74
Jan. 7: Missouri (Rupp Arena) | SCORE: Missouri 73, Kentucky 68
Jan. 10: Mississippi State (Rupp Arena), 8:30 p.m.
Jan. 14: at LSU, 7 p.m.
Jan. 17: at Tennessee, noon
Jan. 21: Texas (Rupp Arena), 7 p.m.
Jan. 24: Ole Miss (Rupp Arena), noon
Jan. 27: at Vanderbilt, 9 p.m.
Jan. 31: at Arkansas, 6:30 p.m.
Feb. 4: Oklahoma (Rupp Arena), 9 p.m.
Feb. 7: Tennessee (Rupp Arena), 8:30 p.m.
Feb. 14: at Florida, 3 p.m.
Feb. 17: Georgia (Rupp Arena), 9 p.m.
Feb. 21: at Auburn, 8:30 p.m.
Feb. 24: at South Carolina, 7 p.m.
Feb. 28: Vanderbilt (Rupp Arena), 2 p.m.
March 3: at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.
March 7: Florida (Rupp Arena), 4 p.m.