The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team played the second of their two scheduled exhibition games on Thursday night. After taking down Purdue in their preseason opener last week, they faced Georgetown in their last warmup for the regular season.

Where fans can watch, listen to & follow Tuesday's 2025-26 season opener between Mark Pope's No. 9 Wildcats & Tevon Saddler's Colonels.

So Lee K. Howard, WKYT’s sports director and anchor Kristen Kennedy’s husband, took their kids out of school to watch the team work at Rupp. Lee K said at the end of practice, Coach Pope picked two kids to come onto the floor to try to make a basket. If they did, the players wouldn’t have to run lines.

The Boilermakers wanted to be challenged on the road, and to learn about areas where they need to improve. That, not the result, is in view. Here's what stood out.

The Kentucky Wildcats faced the Purdue Boilermakers in a college basketball exhibition at Rupp Arena. Here's the UK basketball score and highlights.

Harlan County’s Trent Noah (2) looks to shoot the ball as Warren Central’s Dominique Anthony (15) and Warren Central’s Jarek Kirk (11) converge on him during the UK HealthCare Boys’ Sweet 16 state basketball tournament at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., on Thursday, March 21, 2024. By Ryan C. Hermens

A new trend of marquee preseason matchups has given us some data points when it comes to ranking teams before the season begins.

Butler was waived by the Atlanta Hawks before the start of the NBA season but signed with their G-League affiliate, the College Park Skyhawks

Teams can always get hot and make a run in the NCAA tournament to turn a solid 24- or 25-win season into a miraculous finish that ends with a national title. In recent college basketball history, however, the bulk of the national champions were already flirting with that 30-win tally before they cut down the nets in the final game.