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From the Season Never Ends 2011 Calendar: “On this day in 2003, UK coach Tubby Smith signed 7-footers Shagari Alleyne and Lukasz Obrzut. At the time they were only the fourth and fifth seven-footers to play for UK.”
Shagari Alleyne

Shagari Alleyne

From the Season Never Ends 2011 Calendar:  “On this day in 2003, UK coach Tubby Smith signed 7-footers Shagari Alleyne and Lukasz Obrzut.  At the time they were only the fourth and fifth seven-footers to play for UK.”

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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 March 15, 1973, No. 17 Kentucky defeated Austin Peay, 106-100 in overtime in the 1973 NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen.  In UK’s first NCAA Tournament game without Adolph Rupp as its coach, senior center Jim Andrews scored 30 points, but it was senior reserve Larry Stamper who tallied the final six points in overtime as the Wildcats outlasted Austin Peay and its charismatic star, James “Fly” Williams (26 points), before 15,581 fans in Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gym.  This was Joe B. Hall’s first NCAA tourney win.

 

On March 15, 1992, eligible for postseason play for the first time in three years, Kentucky dominates Alabama, 80-54, to take its 16th SEC Tournament Championship.

 

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