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Nerlens Noel - photo by Tammie Brown | WildcatWorld.com

– photo by Tammie Brown | WildcatWorld.com

 scored 22 points, Nerlens Noel added 17 and  had 11 as No. 3 ‘s highly touted freshman class led five Wildcats in double figures in a 93-61 exhibition victory over on Thursday night.  Noel added 11 rebounds and four blocks for the Wildcats, who got 15 points from sophomore guard  and 12 from sophomore forward . , another freshman, had eight.  For the Wildcats’ freshmen – following in the footsteps of a team that won last season’s NCAA championship with rookies Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist – the debut was even better than expected.

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On This Day in UK Basketball History

On March 24, 1947, before a Madison Square Garden record crowd of 18,493, Wat Misaka held Ralph Beard to two points and Utah ended the Wildcats’ bid for back-to-back NIT Championships.

 

On March 24, 1951, No. 1 Kentucky defeated No. 5 Illinois in the 1951 NCAA Final Four.  After UK standouts Bill Spivey and Cliff Hagan fouled out, Shelby Linville, a 6-foot-5 junior, scored Kentucky’s final six points, including the game-winning basket on a layup with 12 seconds left before 16,425 in the old Madison Square Garden in New York City.

 

On March 24, 2017, in a highly anticipated matchup with UCLA, which beat the Wildcats in the regular season in Rupp Arena, freshman point guard De’Aaron Fox scores an NCAA Tournament freshman record 39 points to propel UK to the Elite Eight.

 

Wildcats Born on This Date

March 24, 1972

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