Kentucky basketball is no stranger to top 15 matchups this season, and on Saturday they will be playing their third-straight top 15 game at home this season, th

The class of 2025 prospect also seems to have studied up on his UK basketball history. In an interview last fall, Wilson name-dropped a former Kentucky player, Jarred Vanderbilt, when discussing the current NBA players that he tries to model his game after.

The No. 8 Kentucky Wildcats will try to take down another top team when they host the No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide in a massive SEC showdown on

"TP, he’s terrific, isn’t he? Again, really complicated defense," Pope claimed. "But TP, you know I mean it was big shots, really big shots. Right?"

The Tulane Green Wave hired Kentucky Wildcats nickels coach as their new safeties analyst who helped produce a top-ranked SEC defense in 2023.

Derrion Reid is questionable for the game against the Wildcats, Alabama coach Nate Oats said Friday. The Crimson Tide is set to face Kentucky on Saturday (11 a.m. CT, ESPN) in Lexington, Kentucky.

Kentucky owns a stellar 5-0 record against teams ranked in the top 15 this season. The No. 8 Wildcats look to make it six straight wins over top-flight competition when they face No. 4 Alabama on Saturday in Southeastern Conference play at Lexington,

The game figures to be a high-scoring affair with a lot of three-point shots taken. Alabama leads the nation in scoring, averaging 89.5 points per game, while Kentucky is third in the country, scoring 88.7 points per contest. The Crimson Tide shoot 31.2 three-point shots per game, while the Cats hoist 27.7 attempts per game from behind the arc.

A pair of top 15 SEC squads face off on Saturday, Jan. 11 when the No. 6 Kentucky Wildcats take on the No. 14 Mississippi State Bulldogs at Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville, Miss.

No. 8 Kentucky hosts the No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide after Jaxson Robinson scored 22 points in Kentucky's 81-69 win against the Texas A&M Aggies.

Kentucky is faring much better than Arkansas so far this season, who are now being coached by former Kentucky head coach John Calipari. Calipari and Kentucky parted ways in April after 15 years. Kentucky had won only one NCAA Tournament game in Calipari's last four years in Lexington and suffered massive first-round upsets at the hands of a 15 and a 14 seed.