March Madness is getting closer and closer. On Sunday, Kentucky Women’s Basketball celebrated its Senior Day with a top-10 opponent in Lexington, while Mark Pope’s men’s team has only two home games and two road games left on its remaining regular season schedule. Baseball and softball are also around the corner in Lexington, plus postseason high school basketball beginning in Kentucky this week.

We’ll hit those topics and more in a new Monday morning rundown to lead off the week. I hope you have a good one.

Kentucky WBB couldn’t finish the job on Senior Day

honored its two seniors, , before hosting No. 7 LSU in Historic Memorial Coliseum on Sunday. The Wildcats were the better team for a half until Kim Mulkey’s Tigers dominated the third quarter, 23-6, to erase Kentucky’s 38-26 halftime lead. Kentucky briefly retook the lead with a late run in the fourth quarter. Still, LSU prevailed in the end to spoil the Senior Day fun, winning 65-58.

Amoore led Kentucky with 16 points and five assists in her second-to-last game in Lexington. Lawrence, who joined the 1,500-point club, scored nine, matching with 3-11 shooting from the field shot 3-10 and 1-8 from 3, part of a cold-shooting afternoon for the home team.

Kentucky hosts Tennessee on Thursday before the regular-season finale at South Carolina on Sunday.

Sights and sounds from Kentucky WBB’s Senior Day

Hear from Mark Pope tonight on the Mark Pope Show

will be in his usual place beside Tom Leach for their Monday night radio conversation. A new edition of the Mark Pope Show airs from 6-7 p.m. on the UK Sports Network tonight, hopefully with promising updates to injury report. Can’t listen live? KentuckySportsRadio.com will share any important things Pope tells his radio audience.

Collin Chandler and Otega Oweh preview the trip to Oklahoma

Tomorrow, and will preview Kentucky’s Wednesday game at Oklahoma before the team’s flight to Norman. Oweh played his first two seasons of college basketball for the Sooners, so he should have plenty to say about returning to Oklahoma as an opponent and the bounce-back opportunity after his

Kentucky dropped one place in Bracketology, still a No. 3 seed

Kentucky’s loss at Alabama had little impact on its NCAA Tournament standing. In, the loss in Tuscaloosa dropped Kentucky from the No. 11 overall seed to the No. 12 while staying on the No. 3 seed line in ESPN’s tournament projection. Lunardi’s latest has the Wildcats in the South Region.

Kentucky is also No. 12 in the

Kentucky shouldn’t slide more than a spot or two in the AP Poll

Ranked seventeenth in the AP, Kentucky shouldn’t drop more than a spot, maybe two, when the new reacts to the win over Vanderbilt and the loss at Alabama. No. 18 Clemson may jump the Wildcats in the poll, but the teams ranked 19th (Arizona), 21st (Mississippi State), 22nd (Memphis), 23rd (Kansas), and 24th (Ole Miss) also suffered losses since last Monday.

District tournaments begin around Kentucky

Sunday marked the start of district tournaments around Kentucky for boys’ high school basketball. Tonight, 30 more games will be played around the state as the Road To Rupp begins throughout the Bluegrass. The 16 regional winners will play in the state tournament from March 26-29.

St. Xavier (Louisville) is the team to beat this year. The Tigers will again be the No. 1 team in KSR’s high school basketball rankings when the committee reveals its Week 12 Top 25 on Monday morning. before the new update is published later this morning.