ESPN to broadcast SportsCenter live from Kentucky Pro Day

The start of Kentucky’s 2023-24 season draws nearer and nearer as the team is about to hit your television screens for the first official time this fall on Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. ET.

ESPN has announced that they’ll be taping SportsCenter live from the Kentucky basketball pro day, which is being held at Rupp Arena. College hoops analyst Seth Greenberg will even be in attendance to break down the action and interview head coach John Calipari.

Here was the ESPN announcement of the event from Wednesday afternoon:

Wednesday, @SportsCenter will be live from @KentuckyMBB's annual #UKProDay@KevinNegandhi & analyst @SethOnHoops will be joined by @UKCoachCalipari from @Rupp_Arena

🏀 6p ET | ESPN, ESPN App pic.twitter.com/VpTvQpOZMs

— ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) October 11, 2023

So, fans can catch SportsCenter live at Rupp Arena tonight. However, it’s unclear whether the whole pro day will be broadcast on ESPN. If fans want to ensure they can view the entire thing, it will be airing on SEC Network+ — an online-only channel that can be accessed through the ESPN app or website with your regular cable login if you have the SEC Network — with Jimmy Dykes and Kentucky’s own Jack “Goose” Givens on the call.

Headliners for Pro Day

Let’s face it: Kentucky simply hasn’t produced the steady stream of lottery picks the last few years that they did in the 2010s. But this year, that narrative will revert, as Kentucky is likely to put at least three players in the first round of next spring’s draft, starting with versatile wing prospect Justin Edwards.

Edwards has already been touted as the top ’24 prospect by several NBA outlets, which is a vote of confidence in his ability to showcase NBA-ready talents on both sides of the floor in a body that few other wings possess. He’s already lanky enough to play the four in college and should, but he’s also a known as a reliable three-point shooter and terrific driver with the ball. He may not be the lead scorer or best player on this Kentucky team, but he undoubtedly has the highest pro ceiling of the bunch.

The only guy who could argue otherwise is seven-foot five-star freshman Aaron Bradshaw. He’s got extreme height, length and athleticism working in his favor, along with a more exotic set of skills than most teenage seven-footers. His job will be showing that he can effectively apply his guard-like talents as a forward while still taking care of the traditional big man duties for Kentucky.

Then there’s the guards, Robert Dillingham and DJ Wagner. Neither are very large or known as knockdown shooters, but Dillingham has a sorcerer’s handle while Wagner is a pure competitor who likes to hound opposing point guards defensively while getting downhill on offense himself. The shooting drills will be most important for these guys.