{"id":391963,"date":"2026-11-03T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391963\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T10:34:09","slug":"no-23-kentucky-hosts-manhattan-for-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391963\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 23 Kentucky hosts Manhattan for season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Manhattan Jaspers at Kentucky Wildcats<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lexington, Kentucky; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">LINE: Wildcats -33.5; over\/under is 158.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">BOTTOM LINE: No. 23 Kentucky opens the season at home against Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kentucky went 14-4 at home a season ago while going 22-14 overall. The Wildcats averaged 13.8 points off of turnovers, 13.0 second-chance points and 25.7 bench points last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Manhattan went 8-13 in MAAC action and 3-12 on the road last season. The Jaspers averaged 74.0 points per game last season, 16.2 from the free-throw line and 21.6 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan Jaspers at Kentucky Wildcats Lexington, Kentucky; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST LINE: Wildcats -33.5; over\/under is 158.5 BOTTOM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3361,11496,75,84,83,19218,9,24,63,319],"class_list":["post-391963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}