Kentucky has hired BYU’s Mark Pope as men’s basketball coach, bringing home a captain of the Wildcats’ 1996 national championship team to succeed John Calipari.

Aaron Bradshaw hit a 3-pointer with 1:27 to play and No. 6 Kentucky rallied to beat Florida 87-85 on Saturday in the first Southeastern Conference opener between the rivals in 26 years.

The Kentucky Wildcats no longer preside quite so comfortably over the Southeastern Conference, which is harder to do these days.

Florida will play the first conference road game this season against Kentucky.

Kentucky and Michigan finally played their London game, but organizers aren’t exactly running a fast break to get back to the British capital.

The University of Mississippi is paying tribute to James Meredith 60 years after integration.

Fans of the University of Kentucky Wildcats football team flipped over a car and set furniture on fire in Lexington, Kentucky, while celebrating the team’s 26 to 16 win over the University of Florida Gators on Sept. 10.

Dre’una Edwards hit a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 4.2 seconds left, and the Kentucky Wildcats rallied from 15 points down to upset top-ranked South Carolina 64-62 to win their first Southeastern Conference women’s tournament championship since 1982 and second all-time.

A preview of this year's VRBO Citrus Bowl between the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Kentucky Wildcats.

The Kentucky Wildcats will play against the Iowa Hawkeyes at 1 p.m. on Jan. 1 in the Vrbo Citrus Bowl at Orlando’s Camping World Stadium.

Team selections for the Citrus Bowl and Cheez-It Bowl at Camping World Stadium in Orlando were announced Sunday.