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Reliving 2,000 wins through the legends

Dan Issel

From Eric Lindsey of the Athletics office, “Two-thousand wins. An achievement no other school – not Kansas, not North Carolina, not UCLA – has ever achieved.  For the first time in college basketball, a school has reached the 2,000 mark. , as the rightful owner of the winningest record in college basketball, is the first to reach the hallowed mark.”

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Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter’s Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.

On This Day in UK Basketball History

On May 20, 1996, the championship squad makes an official visit to the White House at the invitation of President Clinton. Tony Delk and Mark Pope present President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore with UK jerseys.

 

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