October 10, 2007

THE BASKETBALL GODS HAVE BLESSED KENTUCKIANS WITH MORE THAN A CENTURY OF GLORIOUS SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

WHETHER THEY WERE FABULOUS OR FIDDLIN', UNTOUCHABLE OR SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE, SEVEN WILDCATS SQUADS HAVE CELEBRATED NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

RECORD: 36-3COACH: ADOLPH RUPPALL-AMERICAS: RALPH BEARD (G); ALEX GROZA (C)DID YOU KNOW? KENTUCKY'S STARTERS REPRESENTED THE U.S. AT THE '48 OLYMPICS AND WON GOLD.

RECORD: 32-2COACH: ADOLPH RUPPALL-AMERICAS: RALPH BEARD (G); ALEX GROZA (C)DID YOU KNOW? AFTER THIS WIN, UK WAS RANKED NO. 1 IN THE FIRST AP POLL.

RECORD: 32-2COACH: ADOLPH RUPPALL-AMERICA: BILL SPIVEY (C)DID YOU KNOW? KENTUCKY DIDN'T LOSE A HOME GAME IN ITS FIRST THREE SEASONS IN MEMORIAL COLISEUM.

RECORD: 23-6COACH: ADOLPH RUPPALL-AMERICA: VERNON HATTON (G)DID YOU KNOW? LED BY HATTON'S 30 POINTS, THE CATS TWICE BATTLED BACK FROM 11-POINT DEFICITS.

RECORD: 30-2COACH: JOE B. HALLALL-AMERICAS: JACK GIVENS (F); RICK ROBEY (F); KYLE MACY (G)DID YOU KNOW? THE 1977-78 WILDCATS OUTSCORED THEIR OPPONENTS BY 14.3 POINTS A GAME.

RECORD: 34-2COACH: RICK PITINOALL-AMERICA: TONY DELK (G)DID YOU KNOW? KENTUCKY WON 27 CONSECUTIVE GAMES AND WENT 16-0 IN SEC PLAY.

RECORD: 35-4COACH: TUBBY SMITHALL-AMERICAS: NONEDID YOU KNOW? UK WAS 11-3 IN GAMES DECIDED BY 10 POINTS OR FEWER AND 7-1 IN GAMES DECIDED BY THREE POINTS OR FEWER.

THE LIST OF THE BLUEGRASS STATE'S TOP CATS (MALE AND FEMALE) IS AS LONG AND VARIED AS THE HISTORY OF KENTUCKY BASKETBALL ITSELF

AT AGE 64 ADOLPH RUPP RULED BASKETBALL IN KENTUCKY AND ACROSS THE NATION

BASKETBALL BEGAN AT KENTUCKY IN 1903 WHEN W.W.H. MUSTAINE GATHERED SOME students, collected $3 to pay for a ball and told the group to start playing. Not much is known about the first men who...

MIRROR IMAGETHE EARLY KENTUCKY teams were a reflection of coach Adolph Rupp (here preparing his troops for a game against Mississippi in 1964): disciplined and smart. The current Wildcats have...

THE 1965-66 SEASON turned out to be a watershed moment in the legacy of Adolph Rupp and in the history of college basketball.

THE 1991-92 SEASON WAS UNFORGETTABLE, AS THE FOUR SENIORS STILL REMEMBER TODAY

TALENTED AND VERSATILE BOTH ON THE COURT AND OFF, THIS WILDCAT REWROTE KENTUCKY'S RECORD BOOK

THIRTEEN YEARS after breaking UK's alltime scoring record, Still did have a baby with a former Kentucky basketball player. But it wasn't Charles Hurt whom Still married in 1995, it was Rob Lock...

SINCE ITS FIRST VARSITY TEAM TOOK THE FLOOR OF MEMORIAL COLISEUM IN 1974, the Kentucky women's program hasn't come close to approximating the success of the men's team. These Wildcats won their...

MORE THAN A FEW GOOD MEN HAVE GRACED KENTUCKY'S BASKETBALL COURTS. FROM COTTON TO KYLE,HERE ARE THE TOP 15

THE NEXT CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY BASKETBALL BEGINS WITH A YOUNG TEAM AND A NEW COACH WITH AN UNMATCHED PASSION FOR THE GAME

A WORKAHOLIC COACH IN HOOPS-MAD LEXINGTON? IT'S A MATCH MADE IN BIG BLUE HEAVEN

WITH FOUR TOP RECRUITS AND AN EXPERIENCED BACKCOURT, UK IS POISED FOR SUCCESS

TELLING NUMBERS ON KENTUCKY'S BEST, FROM ANDERSON TO WOODS

THEIR WINNING WAYS HAVE OFTEN LANDED THE WILDCATS ON THE COVER OF SI

BEFORE EARNING NBA FAME, THE FUTURE COACH LEARNED A LIFETIME OF LESSONS FROM THE BARON