On Thursday night in Brooklyn, Isaiah Jackson will be the guy who extends John Calipari’s string of having a University of Kentucky player selected in the first round of the NBA Draft to 12 consecutive seasons.

U of L’s Jones and David Johnson, Kentucky’s B.J. Boston and Charles Bassey of Western Kentucky were in Chicago. UK forward Isaiah Jackson had an invitation but passed.

Questions are flying about how college athletes will cash in on the opportunities certain to percolate as the name/image/likeness world opens across the landscape.

The latest greatest sign of normalcy in the basketball world arrived this week.

Let there be debate.

The Wildcats made 13 of 27 3-point field goal attempts, while South Carolina went 2 of 17.

Ole Miss assured that it would finish ahead of UK in the Southeastern Conference standings for the first time since 1937.

If you trust the folks who make forecasts for a living, Louisville and Indiana are scrambling on the NCAA Tournament bubble, and Kentucky still has a pile of work to do.

How many times have the following sentences been written since John Calipari took over as the Kentucky basketball coach for the 2010 season?

It’s been a miserable week on the local college basketball scene.