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1930-1931 Kentucky Basketball Statistics

Final Record: Won: 15; Lost: 3
Head Coach: Adolph Rupp
Assistant Coach(es): Cecil Combs, Birkette Pribble
Manager: Morris Levin
Team Captain(s): Carey Spicer
Notes: Adolph Rupp’s First Season


Individual

Player Games
Played
Total
Pts
PPG
Carey Spicer 18 188 10.44
Louis McGinnis 17 175 10.29
George Yates 18 126 7
Forest Sale 9 62 6.89
Jake Bronston 18 72 4
Darrell Darby 8 19 2.38
Bill Congleton 1 2 2
Ellis Johnson 8 11 1.38
Charles Worthington 16 16 1
Cecil Bell 2 2 1
Bill Trott 7 4 .57
William Kleiser 5 2 .4
Ercel Little 3 0 0
George Skinner 1 0 0
Milton Cavana 1 0 0
Lawrence Crump 1 0 0
Dick Richards 1 0 0
Allan Lavin 1 0 0

Schedule and Results

Date Game Result Score Notes
12/18/1930 Georgetown College at Kentucky W 67 – 19
12/27/1930 Marshall at Kentucky W 42 – 26
12/31/1930 Berea at Kentucky W 41 – 25
1/3/1931 Clemson at Kentucky W 33 – 21
1/10/1931 Tennessee at Kentucky W 31 – 23
1/16/1931 Tenn-Chattanooga at Kentucky W 55 – 18
1/21/1931 Kentucky at Vanderbilt W 42 – 37
1/31/1931 Kentucky at Tennessee W 36 – 32 OT
2/6/1931 Washington & Lee at Kentucky W 23 – 18
2/9/1931 Georgia Tech at Kentucky W 38 – 34
2/13/1931 Kentucky at Georgia L 16 – 25
2/14/1931 Kentucky at Clemson L 26 – 29
2/16/1931 Kentucky at Georgia Tech W 35 – 16
2/20/1931 Vanderbilt at Kentucky W 43 – 23
2/27/1931 Kentucky vs. North Carolina State W 33 – 28 Southern Conference Tournament (at Atlanta, GA)
2/28/1931 Kentucky vs. Duke W 35 – 30 Southern Conference Tournament (at Atlanta, GA)
3/2/1931 Kentucky vs. Florida W 56 – 35 Southern Conference Tournament (at Atlanta, GA)
3/3/1931 Kentucky vs. Maryland L 27 – 29 Southern Conference Tournament Championship (at Atlanta, GA)

Next Game

Tennessee vs Kentucky (TBD)

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.

 

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