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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.

University of Kentucky women’s basketball head coach Kenny Brooks has been selected as The Sporting News’ National Coach of the Year. Under Brooks’ leadership and in just under a year, the UK women’s basketball program is experiencing its best season-to-season turnaround in program history.

Kentucky earned the number four seed in its region and the Cats will host the first two rounds of the 2025 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament inside Historic Memorial Coliseum. UK begins play on Friday, facingLiberty at home. Hosting the first two rounds is a big advantage, according to UK head coach Kenny Brooks.

The Kentucky Men's Basketball Team has earned a three seed in the Midwest Region in the NCAA Tournament in Coach Mark Pope’s first season in Lexington. Their path will start in Milwaukee, taking on the No. 14 seed Troy in the opening round on Friday.

In the regular season matchup between Kentucky and Oklahoma, Otega Oweh had a huge game, including the game-winning shot, as the Cats beat the Sooners, Oweh’s former team, in Norman. On Thursday night in the second round of the 2025 Southeastern Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Oweh did it again.