Kentucky basketball’s marquee fan event drew sellout crowds in record time, while a former Wildcat tennis player achieved a career-defining victory at the Davis Cup qualifiers. Sports Kentucky men’s basketball: Big Blue Madness tickets sell out in 22 minutes — All tickets for Kentucky basketb all’s Big Blue Madness on Oct. 2 sold out within 22 minutes, with UK Athletics implementing enhanced security measures including refreshing barcodes to prevent fraud. Kentucky tennis: Former UK star Draxl upsets world No. 32 at Davis Cup qualifiers — Former Kentucky tennis player Liam Draxl defeated world No. 32 Arthur Rinderknech in straight sets at the Davis Cup qualifiers in Quebec City, marking the biggest win of his professional career. Kentucky men’s soccer: Falls 1-0 to Marshall in Sun Belt opener — Kentucky’s men’s soccer team dropped its Sun Belt Conference opener 1-0 to Marshall on Saturday night at home, falling to 0-4-2 overall despite creating early scoring chances and strong second-half defending. Full versions of every item are on feeds.lexingtonky.news. Sources UK Athletics: Big Blue Madness tickets sell out in 22 minutes UK Athletics: Former UK tennis star Draxl upsets world No. 32 at Davis Cup qualifiers UK Athletics: UK Men’s Soccer Falls 1-0 to Marshall in Sun Belt Opener This digest was assembled by The Lexington Times from articles published on feeds.lexingtonky.news over the previous day. The headline and introduction were drafted by AI (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001); each item’s summary is reused from its underlying article, which is itself an AI rewrite of the cited source or a licensed republication. Full versions, with sources, are linked from every item. View in feeds Republishing: This is original Lexington Times reporting, licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-ND 4.0. You may republish this article, in full and unaltered, for free — including commercially — with credit to The Lexington Times and a link to the original.The post Kentucky briefs, Sept. 19: Big Blue Madness tickets sell out in 22 minutes; former UK tennis star Draxl upsets world No. 32 appeared first on The Lexington Times. ...read more read less