Connect with us

Kentucky and Transylvania will renew basketball series — 100 years later

Kentucky and Transylvania will play a pre-season men’s basketball exhibition game on Nov. 2, Transy Coach Brian Lane confirmed Wednesday.The two Lexington-based schools have not met in basketball since 1911. The series record stands at 7-7.Transy, a Division III school, plans to make public the pre…
UK Logo

Kentucky and Transylvania will play a pre-season men’s basketball exhibition game on Nov. 2, Transy Coach Brian Lane confirmed Wednesday.The two Lexington-based schools have not met in basketball since 1911. The series record stands at 7-7.Transy, a Division III school, plans to make public the pre…

Read full article here.

Related Topics

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 March 25, 1978, No. 1 Kentucky defeated No. 5 Arkansas, 64-59, in the 1978 NCAA Final Four.  Lexington products Jack Givens (23 points) and James Lee (13) led UK past Arkansas’ famous “Triplets” — Ron Brewer (16 points), Marvin Delph (15) and Sidney Moncrief (13) — before 18,271 fans in the Checkerdome in St. Louis.

 

On March 25, 2011, freshman Brandon Knight missed seven of his first nine shots. Still, he knocked down his second game-winner of the postseason, a 15-footer with 5 seconds left to lift the Wildcats to a 62-60 victory over No. 1 seed Ohio State in the East regional semifinals.  Josh Harrellson held his own against Ohio State super freshman Jared Sullinger, scoring 17 points and grabbing 10 rebounds.

 

Wildcats Born on This Date

March 26, 1916

9 Bill Spicer

March 26, 1997

wenyen gabriel
32 Wenyen Gabriel

More in Kentucky Basketball