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Arkansas likes to run. Kentucky coach John¿Calipari hopes his team can keep pace with the Razorbacks. “When they speed you up they are getting in to you,” Calipari said. “They don't press like normal teams where if you complete a pass they get back, they come running at you and then they try to rotate and run another guy at you. It will be different for our guys. It's another thing for our point guard and our guards to feel and work their way through. They are a good team, they smashed Mississippi State.

LEXINGTON - Arkansas forward Charles Thomas can still remember the disappointment he felt last year when the Razorbacks blew an 18-point first-half lead and lost to Kentucky in Rupp Arena. "Our biggest problem last year was closing out games. We're better at that this year," said Thomas. "The Southeastern Conference is so balanced and has so many good teams that you can't take any win for granted. "We are better. We are a lot more athletic this year than we were. We have more of a running team this year as opposed to last year when we were more of a halfcourt team.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - It was a forgettable return to Rupp Arena for an "Unforgettable" Kentucky alumnus. Joe Crawford and Ramel Bradley had 18 points apiece as Kentucky spoiled the homecoming of Arkansas coach and former Wildcats standout John Pelphrey with a 63-58 victory over the Razorbacks Saturday. Kentucky (15-10, 9-3) remained a perfect six-for-six in Southeastern Conference home games and sits two games behind No. 2 Tennessee for the top record in the East. Arkansas (18-8, 7-5)

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Ramel Bradley scored 22 of his 24 points in the second half, and Kentucky rallied from a 14-point deficit to beat Arkansas 82-74 Saturday. The Wildcats have now won seven straight in the series. They came from 18 down last season to beat the Razorbacks. Arkansas led 45-31 in the second half and 49-41 after Sonny Weems finished a fast break with a thunderous two-handed dunk. But Kentucky (17-5, 6-2 Southeastern Conference) was relentless, consistently beating Arkansas (14-8, 3-5)

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Bria Goss scored 16 of her 17 points after halftime as No. 10   Kentucky   rallied and held on for a 79-74 overtime win over Arkansas on Thursday night. The Wildcats (20-3, 8-2 Southeastern Conference) trailed by eight points with 6:51 remaining in regulation, but they tied the game late and avoided losing for the third time in four games. Samarie Walker added 16 points and A'dia Mathies finished with 15. DeNesha Stallworth added 12 points for   Kentucky , which had its school-record 34-game home winning streak snapped in its last game by Georgia.

Just received word that Jeff Long, the current athletics director at Pittsburgh, is expected to replace Frank Broyles at Arkansas. Had a chance to work with Long when he was AD at Eastern Kentucky in my previous job and can say he is one of the finest people I've dealt with when it comes to college athletics. He is a good fit for the Razorbacks and has been known to make some good moves in prominent coaching positions. Long brought Travis Ford to Eastern to resurrect its program from the depths of despair in the Ohio Valley Conference and was responsible for bringing Dave Wanstsedt to Pitt as the school's football coach.

Just received word that Jeff Long, the current athletics director at Pittsburgh, is expected to replace Frank Broyles at Arkansas. Had a chance to work with Long when he was AD at Eastern Kentucky in my previous job and can say he is one of the finest people I've dealt with when it comes to college athletics. He is a good fit for the Razorbacks and has been known to make some good moves in prominent coaching positions. Long brought Travis Ford to Eastern to resurrect its program from the depths of despair in the Ohio Valley Conference and was responsible for bringing Dave Wanstsedt to Pitt as the school's football coach.

When Arkansas plays at home, the Razorbacks are almost unbeatable. Sixteen of their 17 wins this season have been at home where the Razorbacks have lost only to Syracuse. Now Kentucky will put its three-game Southeastern Conference win streak on the line Saturday when it plays in Fayetteville, Ark. The Wildcats are tied for second in the SEC with at Alabama at 11-4 and trail Florida (12-3) by one game with three games left. One of Florida's losses - and its first in SEC play - came at Arkansas.

LEXINGTON - Football is considered a game of inches. Minutes matter, too. In a span of five minutes, Kentucky staged a memorable comeback in a 21-20 triumph Saturday night at Commonwealth Stadium, tying a school record for the longest fourth-quarterback in school history. Most of the Kentucky followers started leaving the stands with nine minutes remaining and the Razorbacks holding a 21-7 advantage. Based on the first three quarters, the Wildcats clearly lost to an Arkansas squad led by former University of Louisville boss Bobby Petrino.

Georgia won't apply the same intense, in-your-face defensive pressure that Arkansas did or push the ball in transition nearly as fast as the Razorbacks did Saturday when they beat Kentucky by 13 points. However, Kentucky will face one of the Southeastern Conference's premier players in sophomore guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope when it plays at Georgia on  Thursday. “I've been very impressed with how he's playing. He's definitely playing like an all-league player,” Kentucky assistant coach John Robic said.

John Calipari did not mince words about his team after Kentucky lost 73-60 Saturday at Arkansas in a game where a win likely would all but have solidified UK's spot in the NCAA Tournament. Instead, Kentucky again finds itself on the NCAA bubble with a road game left at Georgia Thursday and home game with Florida Saturday before the start of Southeastern Conference Tournament play in Nashville. Kentucky got a taste at Arkansas of what Missouri felt when it came to UK a week earlier and a desperate Kentucky played with more passion, toughness and energy than it had been showing and won in overtime.At Arkansas, it was the Razorbacks who out-everythinged Kentucky from rebounding to intensity to defense to hustle to toughness.

When Arkansas plays at home, the Razorbacks are almost unbeatable. Sixteen of their 17 wins this season have been at home where the Razorbacks have lost only to Syracuse. Now Kentucky will put its three-game Southeastern Conference win streak on the line Saturday when it plays in Fayetteville, Ark. The Wildcats are tied for second in the SEC with at Alabama at 11-4 and trail Florida (12-3) by one game with three games left. One of Florida's losses - and its first in SEC play - came at Arkansas.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Bria Goss scored 16 of her 17 points after halftime as No. 10   Kentucky   rallied and held on for a 79-74 overtime win over Arkansas on Thursday night. The Wildcats (20-3, 8-2 Southeastern Conference) trailed by eight points with 6:51 remaining in regulation, but they tied the game late and avoided losing for the third time in four games. Samarie Walker added 16 points and A'dia Mathies finished with 15. DeNesha Stallworth added 12 points for   Kentucky , which had its school-record 34-game home winning streak snapped in its last game by Georgia.

How much should Kentucky value winning as it searches for a new football coach? If winning is the priority, should a coach with a 75-26 overall record, including a 4-3 bowl record with appearances in the Sugar Bowl and the Cotton Bowl, be at the top of the list? What if he had 11-win seasons at two different schools? Even better, what if he has already made it clear he has interest in the Kentucky job, even though the Wildcats have not won a Southeastern Conference title since 1977 or have just a 1-9 record this year?

LEXINGTON - Darius Miller has endured many peaks and valleys in his four-year career at the University of Kentucky. He remembers the Wildcats' bumpy ride in the Southeastern Conference last season, a trek that resulted in a 7-6 record in the first 13 games. Although the conference tour wasn't pretty, Kentucky won 10 of its last 11 games at the end of the season, including the SEC¿Tournament, before losing to eventual national champion Connecticut 56-55 in the national semifinals.

LEXINGTON - Terrence Jones is having fun again and it's showing on the court. Jones didn't have the career performance that freshman Anthony Davis had in the Wildcats' 86-63 win over Arkansas Tuesday night, but his final numbers that featured 13 points, nine rebounds and five blocked shots were pleasing to his coach. Davis just missed a triple-double with 27 points, 14 rebounds and seven blocks and became the school's all-time single-season block leader with 89, but Jones was equally effective in the post.

LEXINGTON - Terrence Jones is having fun again and it's showing on the court. Jones didn't have the career performance that freshman Anthony Davis had in the Wildcats' 86-63 win over Arkansas on Tuesday night, but his final numbers that featured 13 points, nine rebounds and five blocked shots were pleasing to his coach. Davis just missed a triple-double with 27 points, 14 rebounds and seven blocks and became the school's all-time single-season block leader with 89, but Jones was equally effective in the post.

LEXINGTON - Kentucky coach John Calipari has no problem with the discrepancy in the number of charges called on the Wildcats versus the number of charges they have taken. Or at least he has rationalized the difference in his mind. Kentucky has been called for 39 charges, including five Saturday at Tennessee, and drawn just nine charges. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist has been called for charging 10 times and freshman Marquis Teague has charged eight times, including three at Tennessee. “We are being aggressive.