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With the court-approved legal settlement with the NCAA, schools and universities will now be allowed to pay student athletes directly. UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart released a statement on Saturday detailing how the athletics program will move forward.

Wildcat baseball season is over, but true to form, the team fought until the very end.

The Wildcats will head to the Clemson Regional after advancing to the postseason for third straight year, a program first.

For the 16th-straight season under head coach Rachel Lawson, the Kentucky Softball team was selected to compete in the NCAA Championship, as the Wildcats were selected as an at-large team out of the Southeastern Conference and will begin the march to the Women’s College World Series on Friday.

Kentucky junior defensive back Maxwell Hairston was chosen in the first round by the Buffalo Bills as the 30th overall pick in the 2025 National Football League Draft on Thursday night in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Georgia Amoore, an All-American point guard from Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, is the eighth player in University of Kentucky women’s basketball history to be selected in the WNBA Draft and the first since Rhyne Howard was selected in 2022. She joins four other Cats – Howard, Evelyn Akhator, A’dia Mathies and Victoria Dunlap – in program history to be picked in the first round.

Lamont Butler scored 18 points and had six rebounds, but third-seeded Kentucky lost to second-seeded Tennessee 78-65 on Friday night in Indianapolis.

In a classic NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament game, fourth-seeded Kentucky fell to fifth-seeded Kansas State 80-79 in overtime on Sunday at Historic Memorial Coliseum. The game featured nine ties and awhopping 21 lead changes. K-State took the lead with 56 seconds to go and UK had four shots inside the final 30 seconds with a chance to win, but Kentucky was unable to convert.

Vernon Hatton, one of the “Fiddlin’ Five,” an All-America honoree and the leading scorer on Kentucky’s 1958 NCAA National Championship team, has died. He was 89 years old. Hatton helped lead UK to the 1958 title, its fourth in school history. He averaged a team-high 17.1 points per game for the 23-6 squad. Hatton scored 30 points to guide UK past Elgin Baylor-led Seattle in the championship game.

As the Kentucky men’s basketball team prepares for its first-round game against Troy on Friday in the 2025 NCAA Tournament, one of the topics of discussion is the Cats’ wealth of experience. Despite playing in a large number of college games, the UK roster does not have a ton of experience in the Big Dance.