Kentucky center Clara Strack, a Hamburg High graduate, leads the Southeastern Conference in blocked shots (41), through Jan. 16.

Former Virginia Tech head coach Kenny Brooks took over as Kentucky women's basketball's head coach this season and the results so far have been impressive. The

Pry hadn’t shown his fiery side. Until Friday night in the second quarter of the Duke’s Mayo Bowl. And field judge Jay Brown experienced a side of Pry he hadn’t shown on the Tech sideline in his previous 36 games guiding the program.

Schutt scored seven of the game’s final nine points to lead the Virginia Tech men’s basketball team past North Carolina State 79-76 at Cassell Coliseum. Virginia Tech (8-9, 3-3 ACC) ended the game on a 9-0 run.

Brown-Stephens is the third wide receiver transfer of the offseason for Tulane, following Omari Hayes (Florida Atlantic) and Jimmy Calloway (Louisville). The Springfield, Ohio native is the nephew of Grammy Award-winner John Legend and his brother, Michael Brown-Stephens, is wide receiver at Minnesota.

These women's basketball players posted big-time performances and were named to the NCAA.com starting five this week.

Two twenty-point performances back-to-back certainly gets a nod for the ACC Player of the Week. After a combined 40 points and 21 rebounds through two games com

Fanning’s season-best happened in 1990-91, when the Wildcats finished 20-9 (4-5 SEC), and recorded 3.3 blocks per game — No. 65 nationally. That year, UK fell in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to James Madison.

Kentucky women’s basketball is in the midst of a week-long break from games, but that hasn’t done anything to hurt the Wildcats’ projected NCAA Tournament seeding. ESPN’s Charlie Creme released an updated look at his Bracketology on Friday.

Colgate at Lafayette, 1 p.m. Maine at UMBC, 1 p.m. Mercyhurst at Wagner, 1 p.m. Albany (NY) at Binghamton, 2 p.m. Canisius at Fairfield, 2 p.m. Cornell at Penn, 2 p.m.

Appalachian St. at Marshall, 1 p.m. Bryant at Mass.-Lowell, 1 p.m. Bucknell at Navy, 1 p.m. CCSU at Fairleigh Dickinson, 1 p.m. Davidson at St. Bonaventure, 1 p.m. Fairfield at Canisius, 1 p.m. Manhattan at Niagara, 1 p.m. Penn at Cornell, 1 p.m. UMBC at Maine, 1 p.m. Wagner at Mercyhurst, 1 p.m. Army at Boston U., 2 p.m.

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