Insight to carry UK's game Saturday
The TV broadcast of Saturday night's University of Kentucky men's basketball game against Mississippi Valley State will be available live to customers of Insight Communications.
The broadcast originates from Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast, a network not normally available to Insight viewers, but UK announced Thursday that Insight had made arrangements to pick up the 8 p.m. game.
Insight customers who have digital cable or mini-boxes can view the game on Channel 505.
Analog customers can watch the game on Channel 14 (Lexington), Channel 15 (Louisville), Channel 5 (Bowling Green), Channel 99 (Northern Kentucky) or Channel 74 (Evansville, Ind.).
Three future Catson Naismith watch list
Ten finalists were named Thursday to the Naismith Trophy High School Player of the Year watch list.
Three of those 10 have signed with Kentucky: 6-foot-10 Anthony Davis of Chicago, 6-6 Michael Gilchrist of Elizabeth, N.J., and 6-2 Marquis Teague of Indianapolis.
The Atlanta Tipoff Club announced the list, which is voted on by basketball journalists from around the country. In February, the list will be narrowed to five, and the winner will be announced at the end of the season.
The other players on the list and the schools they've signed with: Bradley Beal (Florida), James McAdoo (North Carolina), Quincy Miller (Baylor), LeBryan Nash (Oklahoma State), Austin Rivers (Duke), Adonis Thomas (Memphis) and Kentavious Caldwell (Georgia).
SEC, Big Eastexpand challenge event
The Big East and Southeastern Conferences are expanding their men's college basketball challenge to a dozen games each of the next two seasons.
The two leagues and broadcast partner ESPN announced the arrangement Thursday.
The conferences have met for a pair of doubleheaders at neutral sites each of the past four seasons. The new agreement will match the 12 teams from the Southeastern Conference against 12 teams from the Big East over three days beginning the Thursday after Thanksgiving.
All the games will be played at home campus sites, with each conference hosting six each year.
SEC teams will alternate home and away games each season. The teams from the Big East, which has 16 schools and is expanding to 17 in 2012, have not yet been chosen.
Davis' team loses by 39
UK signee Anthony Davis probably wishes his game Thursday hadn't been on national TV.
Playing in the ESPN Rise High School Basketball Showcase, Davis and his Perspectives Charter (Ill.) team lost 76-37 to Whitney M. Young High (Ill.)
Davis, the No. 1 prospect in the country according to Scout.com, had 13 points and 13 rebounds.
Young's Sam Thompson led all scorers with 20 points.
This story was originally published December 17, 2010 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Insight to carry UK's game Saturday."