Jack Givens, Cameron Mills Give UK Sports activities Community New Voices

When the Kentucky males’s basketball crew returns to motion in November, some acquainted voices shall be heard on the airways. Jack “Goose” Givens will be a part of Tom Leach on the sport broadcast, whereas Cameron Mills will seem on the pregame present as an analyst.

One of many biggest gamers in program historical past, Givens, who scored 41 factors within the 1978 nationwide championship recreation and is a UK Athletics Corridor of Famer, will crew up with Leach on the sport broadcast.

Givens, a Lexington native, takes over for Mike Pratt who died in June. Pratt and Leach teamed up for greater than 20 years for the UK Sports activities Community and referred to as the 2012 Nationwide Championship victory collectively.

“My basketball profession began in Lexington, and it’s thrilling that it has come full circle,” Givens mentioned. “I stay up for working with knowledgeable like Tom Leach and I’m excited to share my ardour for Kentucky basketball with the Large Blue Nation on my hometown crew’s community.”

The duo may even host the Ruoff Mortgage Wildcat Wrap Up postgame present, the place they’re joined every recreation by a UK participant and head coach John Calipari. Andrew Kappes will function the studio host.

Givens and Leach referred to as Kentucky’s four-game international tour in The Bahamas this summer season. The duo broadcasted victories in all 4 contests as UK received by a median margin of fifty.0 factors per recreation.

Mills, a two-time Nationwide Champion, will seem on the Don Franklin Auto Countdown to Tipoff pregame radio present. Mills, additionally a Lexington native, hit one of many largest photographs in program historical past to assist the Cats down Duke in the course of the 1998 title run. He’ll sit alongside Dave Baker, who returns for his thirty sixth season with the UK Sports activities Community.

Givens and Mills may even present evaluation on tv for the UK Sports activities Community as a featured visitor on BBN Gameday and BBN Tonight airing in Lexington on LEX18.

The Don Franklin Auto Countdown to Tipoff pregame present airs 90 minutes previous to all Kentucky males’s basketball video games on UK Sports Network associates and can also be out there by means of the UK Athletics app. A stream of the present can also be out there on UKathletics.com and on the Kentucky Basketball Facebook page, the place followers can ask questions and work together with Baker and Mills.

“After greater than 20 years in radio, becoming a member of the UK Sports activities Community has at all times been a dream,” Mills mentioned. “I’d prefer to thank, Dick Gabriel who has been a mentor since I began in media. I’m wanting ahead to working with Dave Baker to additional study the craft. With the ability to sit in the identical seat as legends like Sam Bowie, Rex Chapman, Jack Givens and Mike Pratt is an honor and I’ll do my greatest to entertain and inform Kentucky followers.”

Along with UK Sports activities Community recreation day radio protection, followers are inspired to subscribe to the Behind Kentucky Basketabll podcast offered by Thorntons, hosted by UK Sports activities Community’s Curtis Burch. The podcast is offered on iTunes, Spotify and iHeart.

For the newest on the Kentucky males’s basketball crew, observe @KentuckyMBB on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, and on the internet at UKathletics.com.

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