🔵 The Official Daily Newsletter For Kentucky Athletics

Good morning. The greatest show premieres today. Season 50, Episode 1 of Kentucky gymnastics airs in Las Vegas at 10 p.m. Get all of the details by following the team on Twitter and Instagram.

What else are we mixing into today’s Brew?

🏀 Women beat Arkansas
🤸 Gymnastics 50th celebration
🔵 And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP 

🔼 Blue>Red. The women’s basketball team started conference play on Thursday night against 12-3 Arkansas and took the victory. The Cats won 73-63, and Ajae Petty had an impressive 22 points and a career-high 19 rebounds. Brooklynn Miles and Emma King were also in the double digits for points. Miles had 12, and King had 10. The women shot 44.4% from the field, while Arkansas only made 33.3%.

🔼 Celebrating 50. The gymnastics team is in its 50th season, and that gives us a great reason to throw a party. If you are a UK gymnastics alumna, we want to see you at the celebration! The celebration is Jan. 26-28, and here are the details. Not an alumna? Don’t worry! You can see all past gymnastics athletes as they attend the Jan. 26 meet when the Cats take on Georgia.

🤔 BIG BLUE TRIVIA

Starting Strong. With all this talk about gymnastics, let's see how much you really know about the team. The Cats rank in the top 10 this season. In the Super 16 meet this weekend, they will face three teams who are also ranked.

Today’s question— what is the gymnastics team’s ranking?

Think you got it? Scroll on down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

🔵 ONE BIG THING

Five in a Row. The men’s tennis team has been ranked No. 11 this season by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Preseason top-25 poll. This is the fifth straight year the Cats have been included in the ranking. Last season, the men made their way all the way up to second place in the national rankings when they captured the program’s second-ever SEC Tournament Championship.

🎾 Read more about the team here.

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📅 THE WEEK AHEAD

Friday, January 5

🤸 Gymnastics at Super 16 @ 10pm ET | Las Vegas

Saturday, January 6

🏀 Men’s Basketball at Florida @ 12:30pm ET

Sunday, January 7

🏀 Women’s Basketball at Tennessee @ 12pm ET

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: #9!

🔵 Have a great Friday!