Darius Miller

Darius Miller's tour across Kentucky continues to be a huge success and the University of Kentucky senior continues to add new tour stops daily. “It has been amazing,” said Terrence Commodore, who is coordinating Miller's tour stops. “All the turnouts have been great. He stayed an extra hour in Pikeville to cover everybody in line, which is a good problem to have. People have been so thrilled to see him. One lady came up crying and shaking. “It has been fans of all ages, too. Adults, little kids, teenagers, men, women.

Kentucky men's basketball coach John¿Calipari expects six of his former players to be picked in the NBA¿Draft. Terrence Jones, Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Doron Lamb, Darius Miller and Marquis Teague will be on the draft board and Calipari said “it's pretty clear” that Davis will be the second Kentucky player taken as the top pick in the past three years. John¿Wall was chosen as the school's first No. 1 pick in the 2010 draft. Calipari isn't sure who will follow his former center, but said he thinks Kidd-Gilchrist and Jones will be close behind Davis on the draft chart.

ATLANTA — If you were picking the most talented player on the Kentucky basketball team, it would have to be either Terrence Jones or Brandon Knight — both future NBA players. However, what about if you were picking Kentucky’s most valuable player? Would it be Knight or Jones? Or could it maybe be someone else like perhaps junior Darius Miller. Southeastern Conference TV analyst Joe Dean Jr. thinks it would be Miller, not either talented freshman, if he was naming a UK MVP. “I think Brandon Knight for my money is the most talented player.

LEXINGTON - How can you not love watching Michael Kidd-Gilchrist play - unless you are playing or coaching against him. In the first 67 seconds of Saturday's 77-71 win over Alabama, he hit the deck grabbing a defensive rebound and then was knocked down again getting an offensive board. Next, the stole the ball from former UK¿recruit Trevor Lacey, drove the length of the court and maneuvered around Lacey to score. A minute later he was fouled powering his way along the baseline and hit two free throws.

Florida  coach  Billy Donovan  says it is “hard to answer” how  Kentucky  improved from the first time it beat his team in early February until it beat the Gators again 74-59 on the road Sunday. “I think the thing that has been the most impressive about them is they really have played well from start to finish,” Donovan said during the  Southeastern Conference  coaches teleconference Monday. “They haven't had games where they've been vulnerable, in my opinion.

LEXINGTON - Darius Miller walked off the floor with a smile on his face. It hasn’t always been that way for Miller this season, but he had 24 reasons to be happy while walking off the court Saturday after Kentucky’s 76-68 win over Florida. “It was a fun game, especially when we are playing well as team and playing well against a good team,” Miller said. “It was fun to be a part of.” Miller picked up right where he left off in his last performance at Rupp Arena eight days earlier, when he scored 22 points in the Wildcats’ rout of South Carolina.

He no longer plays for Kentucky, but former Wildcat Mark Krebs says one thing has not changed since he last played - senior Darius Miller still remains underrated. “I think he is very underrrated. Then again, his seasons have always been a lot of hype - and he's a great player - but there has been so much hype for him to follow through on and show everybody what I see in practice or what I see in all the pickup games,” Krebs said. And what has he seen from Miller? “This guy is so athletic, this guy is so controlled athletically.

Darius Miller may have earned his starting job back. The senior could return to the starting lineup when second-ranked Kentucky takes on Radford in a 7 p.m. tipoff tonight at Rupp¿Arena. Miller came off the bench and scored 13 points in the Wildcats' 75-65 triumph over Old Dominion last Sunday in Connecticut. Kentucky coach John Calipari hinted that he may insert Miller in place of Michael Kidd-Gilchrist in the team's starting rotation Tuesday in preparation for his team's pre-Thanksgiving contest against the Highlanders in the first-ever meeting between the two teams.

Kentucky coach John Calipari hopes Terrence Jones has snapped out of his funk. It's certainly starting to look that way after Jones turned in his best outing of the season Saturday and helped lead the top-ranked Wildcats to a 74-50 win over LSU¿In Baton Rouge, keeping the team's perfect record in the Southeastern Conference intact at 7-0. Jones was nearly unstoppable against the outmanned Tigers, scoring 27 points and missed just six field goals on...

STARKVILLE, Miss. - When Kentucky needed them most, senior Darius Miller and freshman Michael Kidd-Gilchrist delivered for the Wildcats in Tuesday's 73-64 win over Mississippi State that kept the Wildcats unbeaten in Southeastern Conference play. Kentucky trailed 41-28 at halftime when Calipari moved Kidd-Gilchrist to guard State guard Dee Bost, who had 16 points at halftime. He also told Miller he wanted him to shoot more after he was 0-for-2 in the first half. Bost scored just five points in the second half and Kidd-Gilchrist and Miller combined to score 17 points during a game-winning 20-4 run to close the game.