The body of a man was recovered after a search in Kentucky Lake on Saturday.

Marshall County Coroner and Rescue Squad Chief Kenny Pratt told West Kentucky Star that the 57-year-old man’s body was located and pulled from the water after about a two-hour search. Pratt said witnesses told them a group of three people camping in the Cozy Cove area had gone swimming when the man went under. When they could not locate him, they called for help just before Noon. The man’s body has been sent to the Kentucky State Medical Examiner’s Office in Louisville for an autopsy.

The victim’s name will be released later, pending family notifications.

The Marshall County Rescue Squad was assisted in the search by East Marshall Fire, South Marshall Fire, Fairdealing-Olive Fire, Marshall Co Emergency Management, McCracken County Emergency Management, McCracken County Rescue, Marshall County EMS, Marshall County Sheriff’s Department, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the Marshall County Kentucky Coroner’s Office.

Kentucky alumni made their Ali-like return to the ring on Friday night, as La Familia dominated the 305 Ballers in the first game of The Basketball Tournament, 82-56, on the hollowed hardwood of Rupp Arena. It was a nostalgic atmosphere all night with former players feeling the love from Big Blue Nation and relishing being in the Kentucky spotlight once again.

But beyond the warm and fuzzy feelings from seeing the likes of the Harrison twins, Willie Cauley-Stein, and Eric Bledsoe play meaningful basketball in the Bluegrass, fans may have gotten a glimpse of the style of play the next batch of Kentucky players under head coach Mark Pope will employ, at least when it comes to the number of 3-pointers taken.

Mark Pope loves him some analytics, and in short, that means his team is going to take a lot of 3s. Various summer practice leaks confirm the Wildcats’ affinity for the deep ball and some blog boys expect this team to shatter the school’s single-season 3-point record.

La Familia launched a barrage of 3-pointers

On Friday, La Familia put up 57 field goal attempts in the game, but over half of them, 32 to be exact, came from behind the arc. This is exactly the type of ratio we could see when the college season begins. Hopefully, the college version of the Wildcats will shoot a better clip than the 31.3 percent the alumni shot on Friday, but the philosophy will be the same.

To be fair, the number of 3s La Familia launched might be a little misleading because once the Kentucky alumni built a comfortable lead, the game morphed into a bit of an exhibition, with guys launching 30-footers for the sake of the crowd’s enjoyment. Also, the team drew a lot of fouls around the rim.

Andrew Harrison shot 10 free throws, most of which came off aggressive drives down the lane, and Enes’s brother, Kerem Kanter shot 11 free throws, as he battled down low and showed the type of YMCA-style hustle a team needs to win in games when most players aren’t exactly in pique shape.

One of the reasons Harrison and others were able to get to the rim so often was due to the spread offense head coach Tyler Ulis implemented. On most possessions, four and sometimes five guys were behind the 3-point line, opening up the floor for drives, a modern style of offense that we will likely see a lot this season from Kentucky.

It is a long time before the season starts, but The Basketball Tournament is providing Big Blue Nation a nice hit of basketball euphoria to hold us over until October.

The Kentucky Wildcats have a roster loaded with transfer portal players and a few incoming freshmen. It is different than the roster compilation this team has had over the past decade, but it’s one that should bode well for former BYU head coach Mark Pope.

Pope, who has been quoted saying he has added each player with a purpose, will have big shoes to fill with John Calipari now in Fayetteville. Pope immediately got to work upon being hired, adding numerous players from the transfer portal.

With the summer workouts having kicked off, we’re starting to hear from many of them.

Fairleigh Dickinson forward Ansley Almonor has been hearing and seeing Kentucky not being in many top-25 rankings. After a few practices, he has let people know of the high expectations this team has internally and that they plan to “shock a lot of people.”

“I feel like we’re going to go out there and shock a lot of people in the country,” Almonor said in a recent interview with local media. “People are underestimating us, I feel like. We have a really, really good team and a really experienced team. It’s going to be fun to watch us, for sure.

Almonor’s comments about being an underdog have been commonplace at the Joe Craft Center, as Andrew Carr believes Kentucky will surprise people with how good they are on the defensive end.

”I think we’re going to surprise a lot of people defensively,” Carr said.

A big part of that in summer practices has been how well this veteran team communicates on the defensive end, something that’s been quite problematic with Kentucky in recent years.

”Transition defense will be big for us, and that comes with communication. It’s been really cool to see not only one or two people talking, and things like that, it’s really been the whole team trying to take that next step communication-wise,” said Carr.

It also helps that Kentucky has two legitimate rim protectors in Amari Williams and Brandon Garrison.

”(Amari) has done a special job, he and BG (Brandon Garrison),” Carr said. “That center spot holds together the defensive unit and most of the time is able to see everything, has to have a very loud voice, and they’ve done a really good job kind of growing and trying to make a concerted effort to be as loud as possible.”

It also helps that Kentucky has legitimate depth at all five spots.

“I think a lot of people have done a really great job (in practice),” said Carr. “For us, it’s been really cool because it’s not just one person every day. It switches every single day. Different people have good days on different days. That’s what I’m super excited about with this team in general, the depth. We’ve got two of everything. So it’s been really fun to see that throughout practice.”

Next season can’t get here fast enough.

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