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1926-1927 Kentucky Basketball Statistics

Final Record: Won: 3; Lost: 13
Head Coach: Basil Hayden
Team Captain(s): Paul Jenkins


Individual

Player Games
Played
Total
Pts
PPG
Paul Jenkins 16 100 6.25
James Sharp 6 30 5
Ray Ellis 1 5 5
Van Buren Ropke 13 60 4.62
Edwin Knadler 15 68 4.53
Frank Phipps 16 55 3.44
C. Foster Helm 12 33 2.75
Bill Heizer 7 6 .86
Claire Dees 16 12 .75
Elmer Gilb 3 1 .33
Egbert Marshall 2 0 0
Kenneth Polson 1 0 0
Ferdinand Wieman 1 0 0

Schedule and Results

Date Game Result Score Notes
12/18/1926 Cincinnati at Kentucky L 10 – 48
12/21/1926 Indiana at Kentucky L 19 – 38
12/27/1926 Kentucky at Cincinnati L 22 – 51
12/31/1926 Princeton at Kentucky L 26 – 30
1/3/1927 Florida at Kentucky W 44 – 36
1/10/1927 Kentucky at Kentucky Wesleyan L 24 – 31
1/15/1927 Vanderbilt at Kentucky L 32 – 48
1/21/1927 Kentucky at Tennessee L 14 – 19
1/22/1927 Kentucky at Georgia Tech L 16 – 48
1/29/1927 Centre College at Kentucky W 27 – 25
2/1/1927 Kentucky at Georgetown College L 19 – 26
2/4/1927 Washington & Lee at Kentucky L 34 – 36
2/7/1927 West Virginia at Kentucky L 26 – 44
2/11/1927 Mississippi at Kentucky L 17 – 37
2/12/1927 Kentucky at Centre College W 22 – 16
2/19/1927 Tennessee at Kentucky L 21 – 30

On This Day in UK Basketball History

On January 22, 1984, Super Bowl Sunday, Kentucky’s twin towers of Melvin Turpin (19 points) and Sam Bowie (eight, 18 rebounds) came out on top of the Houston star Hakeem Olajuwon (14, 12, five blocked shots) before 23,992 in Rupp Arena, 74-67.

 

On January 22, 2008, Kentucky upset No. 3 Tennessee, 72-66.  Patrick Patterson (20 points), Ramel Bradley (16) and Perry Stevenson (14) helped UK stun Bruce Pearl’s Volunteers and ruin the final appearance in Rupp Arena of Tennessee star and Kentucky high school legend Chris Lofton (22 points).  One of the biggest upsets, by ranking, in Kentucky basketball history.  

 

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