Kentucky Wildcats Morning Quickies: Bud Dupree Edition

SB Nation sees Bud Dupree going #5 to Washington. Amazing. #5! I think we all thought he could be a first rounder, but #5? Wow, that's just amazing to me. It's clear that the big numbers Bud put up at the NFL combine is likely to pay of huge.

Tweet of the Morning

Everybody's highlight at the CBS/Turner confab yesterday was seeing Craig Sager. Just a nice nice man.

— Seth Davis (@SethDavisHoops) March 10, 2015

Craig Sager sighting! Great stuff.

Your Quickies:

Kentucky football

• Patrick Towles is ranked the 50th returning quarterback in the nation by QB rating.

• UK is trending for a top linebacker, according to Ben Roberts. We could use a little 4-star talent in 2016 right about now.

• The Wildcats are working on communication in spring practice at the moment.

Kentucky basketball

• More "a loss might not be a bad thing" talk from Campus Insiders. Whatever. Win 'em all by 100, I say.

• Don Yaeger explains why it's better to learn from winning than to learn from losing. Amen, brother. Here's a taste:

  It’s absolutely one of the silliest debates on sports radio right now. (Which is saying a lot, since there are many silly debates on sports radio!) To me, the idea that a high-performing team like Kentucky is better off losing makes absolutely no sense.

  None. Whatsoever. The end.

• Ira Combs says that he thinks there will never be a college basketball team this talented that is also this unselfish.

• Marcus Lee named to Community Service Team. He does a great job. Congrats!

• Karl-Anthony Towns is SEC Player of the Week. Congrats! That's the first UK player this season to win the honor. Hard to believe, but apparently true.

Other Kentucky sports

• Baseball hosts Cincinnati today. Could be a rain-out, though.

Links posts

• John Clay's Big Blue Links

• The Leach Report: Tuesday Wildcat Links

College football

• Fraternity at Oklahoma has a chant including racially bigoted language caught on tape, and it has now apparently cost them a recruit. The university has severed ties with the fraternity in question, and the national chapter has revoked the charter of the local chapter. Good.

  This will be a problem for Oklahoma for some time to come, not just because of the negative news, but also because of the negative recruiting it allows people to do to them. I personally think it is a great wrong to show a video of a group of misguided young men doing something horrible in order to persuade an athlete not to go to school somewhere, but that is the nature of the world we live in.

• Mississippi State's Dak Prescott was apparently attacked, along with some teammates, at a concert in Panama City.

College basketball

• Impressive: BYU's Kyle Collinsworth has as many triple-doubles as Shaquille O'Neil.

• John Gasaway's Tuesday Truths. Consider:

  Instead something far more interesting than what I predicted would happen happened. Kentucky turned out to be great across the board. We stopped hearing about the moody and inconsistent Harrison brothers, doubtless because UK in addition to all of its other distinctions gave the ball away on just 15 percent of its SEC possessions. Basically all of the things a team brimming with "today’s" elite recruits isn’t supposed to be able to do — taking care of the ball, playing defense, hitting free throws, sharing minutes — Kentucky did.

  Gasaway has the SEC as a five-bid league. I think he's right unless Texas A&M gets to the final, which could happen. The teams below Kentucky are all really close, and Vanderbilt right now is the hottest team in the league outside of Lexington.

• SEC Tournament preview from ESPN.

• Rooting guide for SEC fans for Championship Week. Gonzaga is among them, interestingly enough.

Other sports news

• Randall Cobb was in Morgan Newton's wedding when he got the call about his new contract. That's way cool.

• Yeah, that guy is pretty good...

  Anthony Davis just matched his career high with 43 points. 17-for-23 from the floor. Draining jumpers from all over the place.

  — Ben Roberts (@NextCats) March 10, 2015

Other news

• If you do anything in Jamaica, it should be this.

• Is physics almost complete? Well, since we're now back to disputing the Big Bang theory, I'm going to say probably not.

• The island where people forget to die.