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A video tribute to the Adolph Rupp Era

This is a video tribute to Era at featuring the coach Adolph Rupp himself and many of the great players that played under him: Dan Issel, , Cotton Nash, , , Pat Riley, Vernon Hatton, John Crigler, Adrian Smith, Johnny Cox, Ed Beck, , Thad Jaracz, , , Wallace Jones, Cliff Barker, Kenny Rollins and others. We’re talking about the Fabulous Five, the and Rupps Runts. Commentary is , Adolph Rupp and Claude Sullivan.

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.

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On This Day in UK Basketball History

On March 23, 1948, Adolph Rupp’s “Fabulous Five” wins UK’s first NCAA Championship, 58-42, over Baylor. The team is met in Lexington by 15,000 fans and given a parade on a fire truck.

 

On March 23, 2009, Patrick Patterson joined the 1,000-point club.  He did it in 58 games.

 

On March 23, 2014, Wichita State was 35-0, ranked No. 2 in the AP poll, and a legitimate threat to win the NCAA championship. Kentucky was 25-10.  In the NCAA Midwest Region third round and before 19,676 at the ScottradeCenter in St. Louis, freshmen Andrew Harrison (20 points), Aaron Harrison (19), Julius Randle (13 and 10 rebounds) and James Young (13, the go-ahead trey inside the 1:30 mark) shocked the Shockers, 78-76.

 

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