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The 1985 Wildcats lost 3 of their last 5 regular season games but made it to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen

Some of you may have written the Wildcats off for the season, but Joe B. Hall knows a team can still come to life after most have left it for dead.

Joe B. Hall - photo by Tammie Brown | WildcatWorld.com

– photo by Tammie Brown | WildcatWorld.com

I am hoping this might lift the spirits of those frustrated most by last night’s loss. From :  “Some of you may have written this season off, but Joe B. Hall knows a team can still come to life after most have left it for dead.  In 1985, lost three of its last five regular-season games and then lost its first game in the Tournament to put the Wildcats squarely on the bubble, long before that word came to be used.  But the Selection Committee picked for the field and Kentucky proceeded to upset Washington and ninth-ranked UNLV before falling to St. John’s in Hall’s final game.

‘s message to his team last night was, “Beat Florida and this all goes away” and he’s right. Now, the Wildcats just have to do it.”

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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.

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On March 21, 1930, a Freeport, Ill., high school coach named Adolph Rupp is named head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky.

 

On March 21, 1958, in the Wildcats’ first game in Freedom Hall and in front of 18,586 spectators, Vernon Hatton’s layup with 17 seconds left pushed the Wildcats past Temple, 61-60, and into the NCAA Championship game.

 

On March 21, 1976, UK wins its second NIT Championship by defeating North Carolina-Charlotte, 71-67 in New York.

 

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