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Marquis Teague's Selfish Play Ending, Puts Together Brilliant Game Against Portland

Marquis Teague appears to be coming alive as he has had two straight games with more assists than turnovers. Earlier in the week against Radford Teague made 5 assists and only committed 2 turnovers while adding 13 points. Tonight against a sharp-shooting Portland team Teague had 8 assists made 0 (yes that is a ZERO) turnovers and added 14 points, READ MORE on Kentuckywildcatbasketball.net

Marquis Teague's Selfish Play Continues: Teague Must Play to Win not Play to be Seen

Freshmen point guard Marquis Teague's young season is causing a little anxiety for UK fans as his assist to turnover ratio only seems to get worse from game to game. It is way too early to start swigging the Maalox but Teague must start to show improvement. I am still a bit concerned by Teague's body-language during Calipari's intense teaching sessions on the bench as Teague still appears to want Calipari to just shut-up during these periods of personal instruction.

We can begin to build a comparison chart between Teague's predecessors (an peers) 

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Kentucky Wildcats defeat the Old Dominion Monarchs in a Sloppy Performance

A tired and often discombobulated Kentucky Wildcat team defeated a scrappy Old Dominion team 62 to 52 in the finals of the Hall of Fame Tip-Off Classic tournament. Kentucky struggled against Old Dominion's 3-2 zone defense but Kentucky's tough man defense propelled the Cat's to victory.

Kentucky shot a poor ........ READ MORE ON Kentuckywildcatbasketball.net 

Doron Lamb scores 26 in route of Penn State

Doron Lamb scored an impressive 26 points and grabbed 5 rebounds in a less-than-impressive win over a weaker Penn State team 85 to 47. I say less than impressive because I cannot recall if UK actually......

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2011-12 Kentucky Wildcats and North Carolina Tar Heels Game Preview

We only have a couple of weeks until one of the most anticipated match-ups of the entire 2011-12 college basketball season as the North Carolina Tar Heels will bring their (if they remain unbeaten) number 1 ranking into Rupp Arena to face the number 2 (also, if they remain unbeaten) Kentucky Wildcats. This game will feature size and speed but the focus will be on the size of both team's post players as North Carolina can certainly match Kentucky's length.

There will be a monumental match-up between .................

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Can Calipari Coach-Out Marquis Teague's Selfish Play ?

The only anxiety I have watching this amazing array of talent, besides the small heart attacks I have every time one of our high flying stars hits the deck, is the selfish play of Marquis Teague. Calipari has worked wonders with past freshmen talent but I have to hark back to the lost cause that was Eric Bledsoe as an example of a hard-to-reach (or never-reached) talented freshmen. Calipari never seemed to........

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Kentucky Basketball 2011-12 - Team Analysis - Part One

We begin with a quick overview of the 2011-12 Kentucky Wildcats and will explore the team's strengths (which are many) and the teams weaknesses (which are few). We will just get the weaknesses out of the way and they are few.

Team:

Of course this team is young, with many of the key players being freshmen. The biggest question on the minds of all college basketball fans is......

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We are back! Sports Only - Kentucky Wildcat Basketball 2011-12 Season Analysis

That's right, we are back but it's it not what you think. The Rural Democrat is still, even though we are largely idle, a very popular weblog.

Even though our blog was dedicated to Kentucky and National politics we also have a deep interest in sports, especially Kentucky Wildcat Basketball. Kentucky's web-based media is crammed packed with websites dedicated to UK Basketball so we are simply just another piece of wood on the fire.

Just to be up-front; we will not always sing the praises of the team or the coach, we will provide a very truthful analysis of UK Basketball but we do support our team, we will not be Jerry Tipton part two.

So sit back and enjoy this season!!! It's going to be a good one...