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Kentucky ranked 2nd in AP preseason poll

APThe men’s basketball team checks in at No. 2 in the newly released Associated Press preseason Top 25.  It marks the second time in the John Calipari Era that ranks in the top 10 in the AP’s preseason poll. The Cats checked in at fourth in Calipari’s inaugural year.  It also marks the highest preseason ranking in the poll for the Cats since the 1995-96 team was tabbed No. 1 entering the season.  Kentucky has been ranked in the AP’s top five in the preseason 22 times and in the top three 14 times before.

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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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