SPORTS WEEKLY HITS THE AIR TONIGHT AT 5:05 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.  JOIN HOST TODD HAMILTON FOR AN HOUR OF SPORTS TALK THIS EVENING.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL SCORES FROM TUESDAY

BOYS:  HOPKINSVILLE EDGED OWENSBORO 76-69.  THE TIGERS HAD THREE DOUBLE FIGURE SCORERS LED BY JORDAN MAJORS WITH 23 POINTS.  HOPKINSVILLE IS NOW 14-6 ON THE SEASON AND WILL PLAY AT HOPKINS CENTRAL THURSDAY NIGHT.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY DEFEATED MUHLENBERG COUNTY 103-76.  THE COLONELS PLAY AT MARSHALL COUNTY THURSDAY NIGHT, WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 7:15 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS DEFEATED LOGAN COUNTY 68-54.  THE BLAZERS CONCLUDE THE REGULAR SEASON THURSDAY NIGHT HOSTING BOWLING GREEN.

ELSEWHERE: LIVINGSTON CENTRAL OVER FORT CAMPBELL 67-39, HENDERSON COUNTY DEFEATED HOPKINS CENTRAL 79-73, DAWSON SPRINGS OVER CRITTENDEN COUNTY 59-53, BOWLING GREEN OVER RUSSELLVILLE 89-68, MARSHALL COUNTY OVER MAYFIELD 54-31, PADUCAH TILGHMAN DEFEATS CALLOWAY COUNTY 72-47.

GIRLS:  LOGAN COUNTY DEFEATED UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS 56-46, TODD CENTRAL OVER TRIGG COUNTY 61-45, CRITTENDEN COUNTY WINS OVER HOPKINS CENTRAL 85-48, GRAVES COUNTY OVER HICKMAN COUNTY 64-57, CALLOWAY COUNTY OVER PADUCAH TILGHMAN 67-54, LONE OAK OVER LIVINGSTON CENTRAL 54-42, MARSHALL COUNTY DEFEATED BALLARD MEMORIAL 63-49.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

KENTUCKY TRAILED MISSISSIPPI STATE BY 11 IN THE FIRST HALF, BUT RALLIED AND HUNG ON TO BEAT THE BULLDOGS 85-79 TO GO TO 30-0 IN RUPP ARENA IN THE JOHN CALIPARI ERA.

BRANDON KNIGHT HAD 24 POINTS, WHILE DORON LAMB ADDED 20 FOR THE WILDCATS WHO PLAY SOUTH CAROLINA SATURDAY.  PRE GAME COVERAGE BEGINS AT 1:30 ON LITE 98.7.

AUSTIN PEAY’S JOHN FRALEY HAD A CAREER HIGH 25 POINTS AND GRABBED 12 REBOUNDS AS THE GOVERNORS RALLIED FROM A NINE POINT DEFICIT TO DEFEAT JACKSONVILLE STATE 73-70.  THE FORMER HERITAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY STANDOUT HAD SET HIS CAREER HIGH IN POINTS WITH 21 LAST SATURDAY AGAINST TENNESSEE STATE.

FORMER U-H-A STANDOUT TYSHWAN EDMONDSON ADDED 14 FOR AUSTIN PEAY, WHO PLAYS FAIRFIELD IN AN ESPN BRACKET BUSTER GAME SATURDAY AT NOON.

TONIGHT’S GAMES

THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS RETURN TO BIG EAST ACTION HOSTING CINCINNATI.

IN THE S-E-C: THE TENNESSEE VOLS MEET KENTUCKY’S NEXT OPPONENT SOUTH CAROLINA IN KNOXVILLE, WHILE VANDERBILT PLAYS AT GEORGIA.

IN THE O-V-C:  MURRAY STATE IS ON THE ROAD AT SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.

WESTERN KENTUCKY’S LADY TOPPERS ARE IN ACTION AT ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK.

ANOTHER PLAYER HAS LEFT WESTERN KENTUCKY’S BASKETBALL PROGRAM, THIS TIME IT’S THE WOMEN’S TEAM.

THE BOWLING GREEN DAILY NEWS REPORTED ON ITS WEBSITE TUESDAY, JANAE HOWARD HAS LEFT THE PROGRAM.  HOWARD—A SOPHOMORE FROM OWENSBORO—TRANSFERRED TO WESTERN FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE.

HOWARD WAS WKU’S LEADING SCORER AT 12 POINTS A GAME AND TOLD THE DAILY NEWS SHE HAS MADE A DECISION TO QUIT BASKETBALL BUT HAS NOT DECIDED IF SHE WILL CONTINUE ACADEMICALLY AT WESTERN OR GO ELSEWHERE.

SOME MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY’S BOARD OF TRUSTEES SAY THEY SHOULD HAVE HAD SOME INPUT ON WHETHER ATHLETICS DIRECTOR MITCH BARNHART’S CONTRACT WAS EXTENDED.

THE LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER REPORTS BOARD CHAIRMAN DOCTOR BRITT BROCKMAN TOLD PRESIDENT DOCTOR LEE TODD HE HAD RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE TIMING OF BARNHART’S EXTENSION.

TODD SAID IN A NEWS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING THE EXTENSION HE DID IT BEFORE HIS RETIREMENT JUNE 30^TH AS A FAVOR TO HIS SUCCESSOR FOR BARNHART’S OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE. 

NFL

THE TENNESSEE TITANS TUESDAY NAMED CHRIS PALMER AS THEIR NEW OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR.

PALMER—WHO ONCE WAS THE HEAD COACH OF THE CLEVELAND BROWNS—WORKED IN THE UNITED FOOTBALL LEAGUE LAST SEASON AS HEAD COACH OF THE HARTFORD COLONIALS.

PALMER REPLACES MIKE HEIMERDINGER WHO WAS FIRED LAST WEEK.  PALMER ALSO HAS CONNECTION WITH NEW TITANS HEAD COACH MIKE MUNCHAK, AS HE WAS WIDE RECEIVERS COACH FOR THE HOUSTON OILERS FROM 1990-92 WHEN MUNCHAK WAS AN OFFENSIVE LINEMAN.

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS LOST IN OVERTIME TO THE SAN JOSE SHARKS 2-1.  THE PREDS ARE BACK IN ACTION THURSDAY NIGHT HOSTING VANCOUVER.