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30 Doug Pendygraft

Name
Doug Pendygraft
Position
Guard
Class
SR
Hometown (Last School)
Parksville, KY (High)
Ht
6'2"
Wt
175
Seasons
1960-61, 1961-62
Birthday
December 29, 1939

Doug Pendygraft was born Douglas Pendygraft on December 29, 1939, in Parksville, Kentucky to Emanuel and Bertha Pendygraft.

The 6-2 native Kentuckian from Parksville, spent his first two collegiate years at Lindsey Wilson Junior College of Columbia, Kentucky. During the 1959-60 campaign, Pendygraft developed into one of the nation’s top JC cagers. He set all kinds of junior college scoring records, won unanimous selection as the “Most Valuable Player” in the 1960 JC national tourney, and attained JC All-America honors. He was the leading scorer of the tournament with 154 points in four games and eclipsed by 10 points the previous one-game tourney high with a 63-point outburst as he paced the Lindsey-Wilson Blue Raiders over Grand View (Iowa) in the fourth-place game. He became the third winner of the JC “MVP” award to attend UK. Previous recipients who became Wildcats were Sid Cohen and Bob Burrow. Pendygraft’s final season scoring average of 25.7 slotted him just behind Del Negro in junior college ranks.

In his first season at Kentucky as a junior, Pendygraft, playing as a guard reserve, saw action in seven games for a total time of 26:07 minutes and his high point production was five versus Alabama. He finished last on the team in scoring.

His final season at Kentucky wasn’t much better.  Pendygraft, playing as a guard reserve, saw action in nine games and scored 10 points on the season.

Pendygraft was inducted into the Lindsey Wilson Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.

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On February 11, 1987, Kentucky defeated Tennessee 91-84 in overtime.  Kentucky was down 10 points to Don DeVoe’s Volunteers with 1:13 left in Rupp Arena when the Wildcats unleashed a ferocious rally. Rex Chapman hit a running 12-footer over 6-foot-11 UT center Doug Roth with three seconds left to force overtime —where UK won before 23,002 fans.  One of the all-time miracle comebacks in Kentucky basketball history.

 

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