{"id":392785,"date":"2026-11-04T00:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/392785\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T00:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T00:42:18","slug":"kentucky-vs-manhattan-game-discussion-and-pregame-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/392785\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky vs. Manhattan game discussion and pregame reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s finally here, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/sports\/mbball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kentucky Basketball<\/a> team will make their 2026-27 season debut tonight when they host the <a href=\"https:\/\/gojaspers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Manhattan Jaspers<\/a> at Rupp Arena. Game time is set for 7:00 PM ET on SEC Network+, so this is a stream-only game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Year 3 of the Mark Pope era tips off with what should be one of the easier games on the schedule for Kentucky, as the Jaspers enter this one ranked 316th in the KenPom preseason rankings. Even so, the first-game jitters can make for some uneasy moments in the beginning, though those hopefully won\u2019t happen thanks to Kentucky playing a competitive exhibition slate, defeating the likes of Little Rock, Texas Tech, and UCF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This will be the first of two games this week, as the Cats will be back in action Friday night before taking on the Kansas Jayhawks in next week\u2019s Champions Classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Time to get this party started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s finally here, as the Kentucky Basketball team will make their 2026-27 season debut tonight when they host&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[141249,141891,141250,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-392785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball","tag-kentucky-wildcats-discussion","tag-kentucky-wildcats-mens-basketball-schedule","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392785","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=392785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}