How do you like us now BIG BLUE NATION!

What about them cats!? Huge win over Florida this past weekend. Coming off that loss against Arkansas, really should give us a lift.  We did a lot of things right against Florida. We rebounded the ball well, Big Josh did his usual damage on the boards, and everybody put a number in the scoring column.  Darius Miller is starting to play ball big.  He is stepping up being a leader, and he is showing the talent that we already know he has.  Unfortunately, we are young and mistake prone.  We don't turn the ball over as much as we did at the beginning of the season, but we make bad decisions at crunch time.  Our lack of good bench play is a big issue, but only if the starters can't get it done.  We have a tough one coming up against Vandy and we finish with Tenn. The Hosscat20 hopes we can finish strong and play well in the SEC tournament.  I don't care about the SEC as much as I do the NCAA seeding.  If we can come together and start playing the quality ball the we are capable of on a regular basis and maybe get Eloy to contribute to the cause along with one other person on that bench, Stacey Poole, then we are dangerous with the right seeding.  I think anything can happen this year because across the board, there are no dominant teams in the NCAA.  Any team can win the tourny this year and we have a shot just like the other 64 teams.  We have looked better during this time in the past BIG BLUE NATION, but don't count us out because our team is good enough to beat anybody in the country.  We just can't beat ourselves that's all, we have to play smart.  We have come a long way and we are getting better every game.  Watch us stretch are legs in the SEC tournament BIG BLUE NATION as we prepare for the NCAA tournament.  I love March Madness!

Up and Down

Being a Kentucky fan this year is like being on a roller coaster.  Extreme highs and extreme lows as we speed through another SEC season.  You got the loss at Vandy which I expected. Then the win of Miss St., a game where we shot the ball real well, but we made a lot of careless turnovers that could have cost us the game.  Oh yeah! We also need make free throws! Man, we shot terrible from the line.  We can't put teams away if we can't make free throws,  plain and simple.  The Big Hosscat20 doesn't expect to see the Wildcats in the final four, but I think we will battle until our short bench and lack of experience come back to haunt us.  We could go out in the first round this year, who knows.  I just want everybody to come back next year. We are going to be so nasty next year.  Whoooo!  But lets stick to 2011.  We need to find some leadership and learn to play together this year.  Create a style of play that the young supper stars coming in next year can come in and follow without having to come right in and do it all.  That's all The Hosscat20 has to say about the cats, but I do have something to say to BIG BLUE NATION. Stop hating the Cards, alright.  Yes we are rivals. Yes we can't stand the sight of red.  But they are still from Kentucky, so lets show some respect for our fellow in state school. Seriously, we just make ourselves look bad when we constantly down the ville and our record is about the same if not worse. Show some class BIG BLUE NATION because the University of Kentucky is known for being a class act.

Upper Class Men to the Rescue

See how good we look when everybody contributes BIG BLUE NATION.  The Vols weren't ready for Liggins, Harrellson, and Miller.  They practiced for Knight, Jones, and Lamb.  That's what those upper class men need to do every night, lead.  Last night against Tenn.they lead and everyone else followed.  Liggins had a career high 19 points, Big Josh had a double double, and Darius had double figures.  We looked real good last night, now lets hope we can keep that kind of play up for the rest of the season.  I want to walk into the SEC tournament with some confidence and a little swagger about us.  We really need Eloy to come along, but he still has time, we have not played our last game yet. Vandy is going to be a hard game, but if we play like we did against Tenn, we will be alright.  Lets get behind this positive vibe we have going now BIG BLUE NATION, I think the boys are trying to make a change.  Keep up the good work upper class men.  Coach Cal, keep foot in there ?!@#$!

Who is Going to Lead, BIG BLUE NATION?

I'm sure everyone saw the Florida game.  BIG BLUE NATION, I hope you were not shocked by the out come, and be ready to see it again when we play Vanderbilt.  We have some good freshmen, but we depend on their play way to much.  Freshmen are only gonna take you so far.  What we need is a upper class man to step up and lead this team.  Our apparent lack of bench play hurts tremendously, but if we can get the six or seven guys who play on a regular basis to start contributing, then our future looks brighter.  Until that happens, we are always going to come up short.  The Big Hosscat20 loves his cats, but I'm afraid that if we don't do something g here in the next couple of weeks, we will be on a 4 or 5 game loosing streak trying to figure out if we will make the big dance or not.  That's what it is all about anyway, the big dance, NCAA tournament.  BIG BLUE NATION that's all we care about, so don't get to down on the cats because it is possible to win with six or seven guys, you just have to play solid ball every night out with very few mistakes.  That's also why we need a upper class man to lead us and take some of the pressure off the freshmen.  If we find that leadership, then we will be a dangerous tournament team because I think we can play with anybody in the country on any given night. Hosscat20 wants to know where is the leadership Big Blue!  Darius, DeAndre, Josh, who wants to lead this team?!

Don't be surprised BIG BLUE NATION

After watching us get beat by Ole Miss, I know we are going to have a disappointing end to our dismal season.  The biggest thing I see that is going to haunt us in the SEC and NCAA tournaments is our lack of leadership. No one is stepping up.  We have three upper class men on the floor and none of them want to step up and lead this young team.  Case and point, Darius Miller past up a wide open three point shot in the closing seconds of the Ole Miss game and it ended in a shot clock violation.  A leader takes that shot, a leader wants that shot.  DeAndre Liggins plays with a lot of energy, but he basically is running around like a chicken with its head cut off because at the end of the game we have no point production, no rebounds, no assists, and a bunch of fouls. Big Josh goes hard in the paint, but he is not a scoring threat, so no one guards him if he is five feet away from the bucket.  It's not completely their fault though.  I mean you look a last years team and they were just role players, while the freshmen ran the team.  Those guys are use to playing in the shadows, so this year they are doing the same thing, playing in the shadows of Brandon Knight, Terrance Jones, and Doron Lamb.  We cannot afford to have players not producing both offensively and defensively.  We only play six players on a regular basis.  We only have nine all together.  BIG BLUE NATION, we need everyone giving their all and not just watching or we could honestly loose the rest of our regular season games, and it does not get easy from here on out.  Time for some guys to step up, right now!  Saturday we will find out what kind of heart we got, if we got any.  Will the real Darius Miller PLEASE step up!