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As sweet as 2,000 victories was for Kentucky's undefeated basketball team and its new coaching staff, the meaning runs deepest among those with Bluegrass in their blood.

The race to 2,000 wins was one of Kentucky's goals for the early portion of the schedule.

Ramon Harris enjoyed the confetti. Donned the T-shirt commemorating Kentucky's 2,000th win.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - University of Kentucky forward Patrick Patterson was wrapping up a speech to fans at Rupp Arena on Monday night in celebration of the Wildcats' 2,000th all-time victory when a fan shouted his desire for another milestone.

Indiana's Tom Crean is in his second season in charge of the Hoosiers after nine seasons at Marquette.

Aschil... Another giveaway on why you're not a legitimate baller is that legitimate ballers know that basketball is a team game, rather one on one.

To be a Kentucky Wildcat basketball fan this year we'll have to display several important virtues.

Kentucky basketball players Mark Krebs, left, Josh Harrellson and John Wall played around in the pool after practice Monday ahead of their game against Cleveland State in the Cancun Challenge.

A television timeout with 6:43 left and your team ahead by 22 points. That seemed like a time to think about the beach and a post-game beverage.

CANCUN, Mexico - The setting at the Cancun Challenge on the Moon Palace Resort invites relaxation.

So if the 2010 Memphis recruiting class is tops in the country, how well does it stack up with the top recruiting classes from the past four years? Does Missouri crack the national rankings after landing five-star forward Tony Mitchell ? Does Ohio State's talented 2010 recruiting class have a special edge because four of its members played on the ...

With four starters returning from a team that won 19 games last season, Rider Coach Tommy Dempsey does not expect his team to be fazed by Kentucky mystique or Rupp Arena.

The Kentucky Wildcats' first two games may not have yielded the overwhelming victories Big Blue fans anticipated.

If you're a Kentucky fan, this past weekend was a good one. For those that are Bengals fans, a win today could really make this a great weekend.

A few teams have gotten a head start on the action, but for most of the country, this weekend marks the official beginning of the new season.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Remember Gardner-Webb? Remember VMI? The University of Kentucky basketball program has been riding so high on hype since it hired John Calipari as head coach 71 2 months ago that it's easy to forget that, in recent years, the early season wasn't so kind to the Wildcats and Calipari's successor, Billy Gillispie.

It wasn't long ago there was a rush for college basketball prospects - even middle schoolers - to commit to a school.

SF) Steffphon Pettigrew, Western Kentucky: The Elizabethtown product, a 6-5 junior, is proving wrong doubters who thought he was too short to make it as a college forward.

Kentucky created a buzz heard around the college basketball world by hiring John Calipari away from Memphis as coach and garnering the top recruiting class in the nation.

Fans are hoping this year's Wildcats can develop the kind of chemistry that defined UK's 1996 national champions.