A Sea Of Blue, a Kentucky Wildcats community

I know what the problem is, but I'd rather keep it to myself.

"I think it's all about mind-set -- I think you're still in Christmas mode sometimes," Gillispie said at a news conference yesterday. "I haven't seen a team come back as focused and as intense and seem very determined and hungry like they did yesterday."

Jared Carter got "more defensive rebounds (Tuesday) in practice than he got all of last year,"

In other news, Gillispie said that Jodie Meeks (sports hernia) and Patrick Patterson (stress fracture in left ankle) are "moving along very well" in recovering from injury.

Patterson is "way ahead of where anyone would have expected him to be," Gillispie said. Meeks is further along.

"For the first time in a while, Jodie's getting close to having no soreness," Gillispie said. "He's been back for a while playing and lifting and conditioning."

During a SEC coaches teleconference on Wednesday, Kentucky Coach Billy Gillispie declined to talk about the academic clouds hovering over his program.

Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan just secured an oral commitment from 15-year-old Winter Park guard Austin Rivers, the youngest commitment in his 12 seasons at UF. Austin is the son of Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers. This is either a case of Donovan outworking other programs or an effort to keep up with Kentucky's Billy Gillispie and his Junior High Kids 'R Us recruiting strategy. ...

Guess who had been racking up verbal commitments from youngsters? That's right, Tubby's successor at Kentucky Billy Gillispie. According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, Tubby and Gillispie talked privately before the decision was leveled. Publicly Gillispie, or the Coaching Pedophile as some are calling him, is saying he doesn't feel singled out. Gillispie has to say that, but you have to believe that somewhere, even if Tubby won't talk about it at parties, he took some joy in being the coaching fraternity's elder statesman and watching as his actions put Gillispie in a negative light.