So Lee K. Howard, WKYT’s sports director and anchor Kristen Kennedy’s husband, took their kids out of school to watch the team work at Rupp. Lee K said at the end of practice, Coach Pope picked two kids to come onto the floor to try to make a basket. If they did, the players wouldn’t have to run lines.

The Kentucky Wildcats, at least according to CBS Sports, are better than the Louisville Cardinals and every other team in the Bluegrass State.

The Boilermakers wanted to be challenged on the road, and to learn about areas where they need to improve. That, not the result, is in view. Here's what stood out.

Where fans can watch, listen to and follow Friday's contest between Mark Pope's No. 9 Wildcats and Matt Painter's No. 1 Boilermakers.

Kentucky basketball played without its two top point guards vs. Georgetown, but the Wildcats' defense was suspect in the loss Thursday at Rupp Arena.

Butler was waived by the Atlanta Hawks before the start of the NBA season but signed with their G-League affiliate, the College Park Skyhawks

A new trend of marquee preseason matchups has given us some data points when it comes to ranking teams before the season begins.

Teams can always get hot and make a run in the NCAA tournament to turn a solid 24- or 25-win season into a miraculous finish that ends with a national title. In recent college basketball history, however, the bulk of the national champions were already flirting with that 30-win tally before they cut down the nets in the final game.