🔵The Official Daily Newsletter For Kentucky Athletics

Good Morning, Wildcats. Starting off the basketball season on a high note!

What all do we have stirring in today’s Brew?

🏀 MBB beat Purdue
🏐 Cats win 2
🔵 And much, much more!

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• Mic’d up with Coach Pope and Coach Brooks.

• Rifle placed second against three other schools.

• Randall Cobb at the football game.

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 First Dub. The men’s basketball team won its first exhibition game of the 2025-26 season against top-ranked Purdue. No. 9 Kentucky won 78-65. Freshman Jasper Johnson led the team with 15 points. Otega Oweh and Trent Noah added 10 apiece. The Wildcats had a 49.2 field goal percentage compared to Purdue’s 38.6%.

🏀 Read more about the win.

🔼 UPSET! The No. 25 men’s soccer team upset No. 10 West Virginia 1-0. Alex Ruiz scored the lone goal of the game. The Wildcats had seven shots, and two were on goal. Goalkeeper Sebastian Conlon had four saves.

⚽️ Learn more about the upset.

🔼 Shutout! The women’s soccer team shut out Texas A&M 3-0 on Sunday. This was the team’s last regular-season match and first win over the Aggies. The Wildcats secured a top-five finish in the Southeastern Conference for the first time since 2014. The women tied for fifth place in the conference with five wins and 18 points. Thalia Morisi, Katherine Truitt and Sydni Fink scored against the Aggies.

⚽️ Read more about the shutout.

🔼 Last Swings. The women’s golf team wrapped up the fall schedule at The Landfall Tradition. Kentucky finished in ninth place with a score of 879 (+15). C.A. Carter and Karlie Campbell led the Cats. They each shot a 218 (+2) and tied for 18th place individually.

🔼 The Stats. The football team fell to No. 17 Tennessee 56-34. Redshirt freshman Cutter Boley had a huge game. Boley hit on 26 of 35 through the air for a career-high 330 yards and a career-high five touchdowns. The five touchdowns set a Kentucky freshman record for touchdown passes in a game.

🏈 Read more about Boley’s performance.

🤔 BIG BLUE TRIVIA

Ranked! The women’s basketball team was picked in the Preseason USA Today Women’s Basketball Coaches Poll. 

What ranking did the Cats earn?

Got a guess? Check below for the answer!

🔵 ONE BIG THING

Big Performance. The No. 3 volleyball team beat Mississippi State 3-1 on Friday night. Brooklyn DeLeye recorded a double-double with 21 kills and 10 digs. Middle blocker Kennedy Washington had a season-best performance with nine kills. The Cats didn’t allow Mississippi State to get to 20 points in any of the sets Kentucky won. The Cats swept Alabama on Sunday 3-0. Kassie O’Brien tallied a freshman three-set match school record 50 assists. DeLeye led the team with 16 kills.

📆 THE DAYS AHEAD

Thursday, October 30

🏀 Men’s Basketball vs. Georgetown @ 7pm ET (Exhibition) | Tickets

Friday, October 31

👟 Cross Country SEC Championships
🏐 Volleyball vs. Vanderbilt @ 7pm ET | Tickets
⚽️ Men’s Soccer vs. Georgia State @ 7pm ET | Live Stats | Watch

Saturday, November 1

🏈 Football at Auburn @ 7:30pm ET

Sunday, November 2

⚽️ Women’s Soccer SEC Tournament
🏐 Volleyball at Texas @ 1pm ET

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🔵 Have a great Monday, y’all!