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Wildcat legend Johnny Cox elected to Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame

Johnny Cox is one of many Kentucky high school basketball legends who will be honored by the Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame later this summer.

Neon native and former Hazard Bulldog Johnny Cox is one of many high school basketball legends who will be honored by the Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame over the next several years, as he will be one of 17 former players and coaches to be inducted later this summer.

Kelly Coleman may have been the greatest Kentucky high school basketball player to ever live, but in 1955, one year before Coleman's record setting-state tournament, Johnny Cox led the Hazard Bulldogs to a state championship.

“I was just a kid. I really didn't know much about it. I never really did pay much attention to it. I know people got all excited over it; the community did, and the fans. They got more excited over it than the players did,” remembers Cox.

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On This Day In UK Basketball History

On March 28, 1992, in what many called the “best NCAA Tournament game ever,” Kentucky takes defending NCAA champion Duke into overtime before losing 104-103 in the East Regional finals in Philadelphia. A last-second shot by Christian Laettner sends Duke to the Final Four, and breaks the hearts of Wildcat fans everywhere. It is Cawood Ledford’s last game as the “Voice of the Wildcats.”

 

On March 28, 1998, against Stanford, Kentucky rallied from a 10-point second-half deficit, then grabbed a 5-point overtime lead, before fending off the Cardinals to advance to the title game for the third straight season. Jeff Sheppard canned three long-range three-pointers - two in the final three minutes and one in overtime - en route to a career-high 27 points.

 

On March 28, 2014, unranked Kentucky beat No. 5 Louisville 74-69, in the 2014 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16.  Aaron Harrison buried a three-pointer from the left corner with 39 seconds left that put UK ahead to stay before 41,072 in Lucas Oil Stadium.

 

On March 28, 2015, No. 1 Kentucky defeated No. 8 Notre Dame, 68-66, in the 2015 NCAA Tournament Elite Eight.  With its 37-0 record on the line, Kentucky trailed Notre Dame 59-53 with 6:14 left. UK rallied in front of 19,464 fans in Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena and preserved its perfect season thanks to a crucial blocked shot by Willie Cauley-Stein and two game-deciding free throws from Andrew Harrison in the final seconds.

 

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