On the brightside. We have too many players, and this contributed to some of the crazy substitutions we saw earlier in the year. With these injuries it's forcing pope to play more logical lineups
Kam Williams Broken Foot per Mark Pope
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What caused the injury? Looked like he shot a couple free throws and then?
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Lowe, JQ and now Kam. FFS, thats 3 of your top 8.
Losing Kam will likely cost us a couple of wins the rest of the season. Really too bad, four wins in a row and the team has some confidence and continuity. I really like Noah, but the drop-off is a mile. Basically, if all three of those kids were healthy right now, Noah and BG would never see the court and Johnson would play very limited minutes. Now all three have to play big roles
Losing Kam will likely cost us a couple of wins the rest of the season. Really too bad, four wins in a row and the team has some confidence and continuity. I really like Noah, but the drop-off is a mile. Basically, if all three of those kids were healthy right now, Noah and BG would never see the court and Johnson would play very limited minutes. Now all three have to play big roles
Get ready to be a pretty miserable lout for the vast majority of your life then. Odd way to choose to live, but you do you.
Noah is ready and capable. Really hope Kam is somehow able to return this season.
Oh no! Is there “scuttlebutt” that it’s a torn ACL?! I sure hope not!
I mean, maybe. It can heal in six weeks. Have there been reports that it’s a fifth metatarsal bone?!
Not yet.
I can heal in 6 but that's 6 weeks with no conditioning and he would still have issues with tenderness and swelling with a return to activity.
Watch that word “swelling”. On this board it has a totally different meaning.
Na I was just messin with him because I seen another poster joke about not hearing that story before. Kam just has broken for
I'm assuming the deal they made with the devil is somehow helping them avoid injuries (and non-biased officiating).
Unbelievable bad luck this year AND last year.
Heck, we had a lot of injuries during Cal's tenure too.
I don’t think so. I don’t see Kentucky ever settling for middle of the pack SEC like we have been under Pope. Don’t see 4/5 straight losses to Alabama happening much, don’t see blowouts routinely like this season. Either he turns the corner and produces at UK levels or he’s replaced.
Why do you think we remain in that shape? We moved on Tubby over far less. We made the right moves throughout history Eventually.
I know some of you guys are looking for someone to blame here, but that's just not fair. This isn’t anyone’s fault and neither is Lowe's shoulder.
It sucks that we keep dealing with injuries to key players, but at least we have a deeper roster, maybe we can still salvage this season and move on with lessons learned.
It sucks that we keep dealing with injuries to key players, but at least we have a deeper roster, maybe we can still salvage this season and move on with lessons learned.
i remember when 10 losses was considered beneath UK standards
Tubby would definitely look at some of this and wonder what the hell has happened? We were wanting him out after year 3 and definitely year 6 with a title, final four, and multiple elite 8’s lol.
Barnhart has really lowered standards. He’s been trying his best to make UK fans accept a lower bar. Began with the end of tubby, through trying to stop the Calipari hire, moving on Drew, Pope, Gillispie. Way better options everytime but he doesn’t want it.
in the end it’s not going to work. We’re in a massive final four drought and Duke is gaining fast. Eventually people are going to have to take care of the program and move away from the average coach love affair. I’m all for Pope working out but so far it’s not there.
tubby thinking to himself "sh*t i could build a pretty damn good team with $22 million"
A lot of that had to do with the difference in conference strength today versus the past. I’d definitely say 10 losses is still bad by Kentucky standards but 10 losses in 2004 is not the same as 10 losses in 2026. Fans struggle with understanding this.
At some point, things are a choice. We have no control over whether or not Pope will be here next year — he will be. We can either understand that and try to enjoy when good things happen i.e. a four game conference win streak or choose to remain fixated on the struggles. Neither is a “correct” choice as they have no effect on the program in a significant way. What they affect is your own fulfillment and enjoyment as a fan, and I’d hate to miss the small victories of being a fan, even if the larger picture hasn’t developed the way we want yet.
The SEC was stacked last season but someone has to be first and there’s absolutely no reason that isn’t UK, the blue blood of the conference. Duke had no trouble locking down the ACC and Kansas had no trouble locking down the BIG12 when they were stacked. Hasn’t Duke won 4 or 5 of the last 10 ACC titles?
These are just excuses especially given our booster contributions. Nobody is going to pay like UK for basketball and they aren’t. Oats is doing better than us without those resources.
Kentucky should not be a middle of the pack SEC program, we should be no worse than 3rd in most years, we should be 1st much of those years. If we aren’t on those marks we need a new coach. It’s that simple. This corresponds with our lack of final fours, we simply aren’t hiring correctly. That’s all it is, nothing to do with the conference. Held Calipari too long, average follow up hire to this point.
The SEC isn’t actually that great, definitely not to the point where we can’t do this.
I’m a UK die hard, I’m not going to negotiate UK basketball. That’s something that should be non-negotiable. Every single booster and fan at this point should be calling for a change and hoping for the best. When Mark proves he’s UK quality that can change. He’s getting next year, but it’s elite 8/ final four, win the SEC (or very close) or bust for me. Anything else and we’re lowering standards. I’m rooting for him to figure it out.
Then you better find another program to support because your expectations are too high for this current era. Maybe other schools can weave through this new era but Kentucky has shown that it cannot and that isn’t going to change now or a decade later.
Fans are mostly happy with how things are going looking on multiple message boards and social media sites. Your opinion is in the minority.
Learn to realize we’re not the kings of basketball anymore and never will be again.
lol I think you’re going to get to see just how that works. This is said ever single time UK has been in a slump all the way back to the 70’s. And it’s always wrong.
I still remember “Kentucky is the Notre Dame of college basketball” comments. Cal won’t go there, he has everything he needs in Memphis. Aaaaand Bam, we had enough of the issues and went for the right hire. All of those comments were Gold by 2010. Nothing will change this time. If Mark can’t get this done he’ll be replaced and the next hire won’t be a question. This is how it always works here.
Kentucky is the only program in history to sustain for this long. Nobody else has done it. If we can’t do it nobody is doing it. 5 coaches to win titles, if you want a ring this is the place. Great coaches are famous here, unlike anywhere else. You’re always going to have great coaches want to be a part of this. It’s the challenge, the fame, the history.
I’d say you’re in for a rude awakening if you actually believe that. We have a top 1-5 NIL any given season also, and every guy that covers college basketball has basically verified this. So no, you’ll be wrong just like anyone who did this the last time at the end of Gillispie was wrong. I think you want this to be true or you might not be old enough to see how this works out every time. If you were youd have already seen this play out several times in the past.
Are you Arkansas or Louisville? Lol. Keep dreaming buddy.
This is absolutely true
Landscape of our game is NOT remotely the same nowadays
It’s like comparing the 80s Celtics to the 2025 Thunder, no way to do it
We’re spending a lot on NIL but we’re also 13-6. NIL means nothing. You’re delusional if you don’t see that most fans have settled for this new era of Kentucky basketball.
I’m serious when I say this: you will never see Kentucky win another title in your lifetime. The fans who accept the new direction of this program overwhelm the fans who have higher expectations. I don’t know what happened or how it happened but the fans’ football expectations have spread into basketball.
Nobody has settled. Until he won the last 4 you had hardly nobody saying run it back, they just thought he would be brought back for a 3rd year. I don’t know what you’re talking about. None of this is true. I do think there are some posters here who are coach first but we’ve always had 4 or 5 who can’t see through coach charisma. They fall for the coach. Every fanbase has some.
if you think UK won’t win another title I would love to make a wager on that. Problem is you wouldn’t come back.
Kentucky is the only program in history to win to these levels. If UK isn’t doing it nobody is. Right now Kansas is sitting with their guy. We might not have our guy yet, could be Oats in 2 years. Could be Pearl for 7. We don’t know.
Kentucky will never stop being dominant in basketball. You’re just going to have to accept that. It’ll be easier for you. This is the place great coaches much of the time want to be. Can’t be recognized historically anywhere like here. The pull is too strong.
They are 18-40 all time to UK. They won their 18th in history and suddenly it’s all over. I love seeing fanbases suck for decades and have a decent game and suddenly they’re going to take over the world.
“Kentucky is the Notre dame of college basketball” - 2009
Followed by Final four, title, final four, final four, championship game….lol.
Those fanbases never learn.
I saw an Auburn post a while back saying now that Saban is gone Alabama will never win another. They so bad want the best to fall. They’ll dream it if they have to.
Even when Pope plowing towards a potential losing record, this forum was the only one calling for his head. Outside of a few angry fans on facebook and twitter, the overwhelming majority continued to blindly support him.
If you don’t see that modern Kentucky fans no longer have the bite they once had, that’s on you. Mitch Barnhart has successfully lowered the stakes of what it means to be a successful program and unless he is replaced by an ambitious new AD, the future of Kentucky basketball has never looked more grim. Your only hope is former players and boosters. But we’ve heard little from the boosters that suggests there’s going to be a change in direction of the program.
Pope will unfortunately be here longer than he should simply because he does enough to keep his job. As long as he makes the tournament, that’s enough for the top brass at Kentucky.
And as much as I’d like for Pope to transform into a successful coach, he’s shown no knack for recruiting and will likely fail to make the staffing adjustments necessary in the offseason to improve next season. He’s not an ambitious man, he’s a yes-man.
This, this, this!
No matter how mad some of you get or how much you post on here you are not going to change UK basketball....period. How you react to the basketball team may/will affect your well being though. Ask me how I know. It's much better now that I choose to not get upset.