In his first season on the job, Mark Pope leads the Kentucky Wildcats back to the Sweet 16 for the first time in six years. Koby Brea was the offensive star of the night.

Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats took on the Illinois Fighting Illini in the Round of 32 and, despite being an underdog, found a way to win this game 84-75. Heading into this game, the key was defense.

A school long associated with freshman guards, the Wildcats are going to the Sweet 16 because of their “old is gold” backcourt.

After six days of nonstop action in the NCAA Tournament, we have reached the home stretch of the 2024-25 college basketball season. The fun of the NCAA Tournament started in Dayton, Ohio, with the First Four and extended into the weekend.

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The No. 18 Kentucky Wildcats and Illinois Fighting Illini play in the NCAA Tournament second round. The teams match up Sunday for the first time this season.

The third-seeded Kentucky Wildcats will face the second-seeded Tennessee Volunteers on Friday (March 28) at 7:39 p.m., on TBS and truTV in the NCAA tournament Sweet 16. The SEC rivals have never met in the NCAA tournament.

Temira Poindexter hit her eighth 3-pointer of the game with 1:09 left in overtime Sunday and fifth-seeded Kansas State pulled off a mild upset, 80-79, of No. 4 Kentucky on its home floor in Lexington in a matchup of Wildcats in the Spokane 4 Region.

Kansas State dodged four misses by Kentucky in the closing seconds en route to an 80-79 win in the second round of the women's NCAA Tournament on Sunday, advancing the 28-7 Wildcats of the Big 12 Conference to the Sweet 16 for the first time in 23 years.