Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: North Carolina Tar Heels Edition

Today, the Kentucky Wildcats take on the North Carolina Tar Heels today in Rupp Arena at noon. How will the loss of Alex Poythress affect the team?

Tweet of the Morning

UK players sporting "Roar for 22" shirts for warmups prior to the #UKvsUNC game at 12. @KYKernelSports @KYKernelGray pic.twitter.com/TkWXlB7nHs

— Michael Reaves (@MichaelMReaves) December 13, 2014

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• JUCO defensive tackle Maurice Swain visiting Kentucky this weekend. That is certainly a position of need.

• Mark Stoops visits Damien Harris. I really hope we find a way to bring him to Lexington. Time is running out for him, and Kentucky, though.

• Mark Stoops failed to take Kentucky to the next level defensively in his second season, as he has done elsewhere. Can he do it in three?

Kentucky basketball

• Herald Leader dudes discuss Kentucky:

• We already talked about this, but Campus Insiders has a viewpoint about how Poythress’ injury will affect the Wildcats:

Other Kentucky sports

• UK Hoops defeats MTSU behind Jennifer O’Neill’s 22 points. Check out Jords’ game thread here.

• Men’s soccer’s Callum Irving named NSCAA All-American. Congratulations, and well earned.

Links posts

• John Clay’s Big Blue Links

College football

• Ohio State can score on Alabama by embracing madness.

• Urban Meyer’s wife Shelley found out the wisdom of keeping your hair out of the reach of fire when blowing out birthday candles.

• In an amazing coup, Auburn hired Will Muschamp as their defensive coordinator. What a staff Auburn has now!

• The CFB playoff is "un-American," according to Air Force coach Troy Calhoun. Yeah, well the big dogs get to eat first, even in America.

College basketball

• Jim Boeheim does not own a computer. Why am I not surprised by this?

• Missouri is really stinking up the SEC this season. New coach blues, I guess.

Other sports news

• Johnny Manziel a "nightmare" in practice. Mobile quarterbacks are always tough for a defense to account for.

• This isn’t just a travel, it’s a trip to China. Holy crap. Seriously, NBA?

• Great article about Tayshaun Prince from SB Nation’s Grizzly Bear Blues, the Memphis Grizzlies site. Hat tip: ukfastcat.

Other news

• 2014 was all about the butt. Heh.

• Thanks, Captain Obvious: Men take more "idiotic risks" then women do.

• Considering the really important questions: Scientist "solves the mystery" of belly-button lint.

• The Navy is ready to deploy a laser weapon. The 30 KW unit is designed to disable and destroy small enemy boats and drones.