The newly established Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame has planned its first induction ceremony for nearly three months, and for executive director Rick Whobrey, this weekend can’t get here soon enough. “It’s been anticipated for so long,” Whobrey said. “I’m anxious in a good way for it to come. It’s something a lot…
Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame ceremony set for Saturday
Former Cats named to inaugural Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame class
Kentucky high school basketball is getting its own Hall of Fame. It will not only have a brick-and-mortar structure, but also a mission of conveying the “essence” of the game to the state’s young people. The Kentucky Association of Basketball Coaches made that announcement on Tuesday and named the Hall of Fame’s first inductees. The…
Kentucky seeks revenge for 1952
After winning the NCAA Championship in 1951, the Cats were feeling great about themselves in 1952. Adolph Rupp had the number one team in both AP and UPI. UK was undefeated in the SEC and finished the season at 29-3. They were led by All-Americans Frank Ramsey and Cliff Hagan. Kentucky opened up the NCAA…
A dark night in Kentucky…
College Basketball has several records that probably will never be broken, among them UCLA’s seven consecutive national championships, former Bruin coach John Wooden’s 10 national titles in 12 years and Pete Maravich’s scoring average of 44.2 points a game during his career at Louisiana State. But the safest record of all must be Kentucky’s 129-game home court winning streak,…
More than a century of glorious Kentucky basketball sights and sounds…
When one sport, one school, one supreme program so dominates a state, you can take its measure with sounds alone. Cock an ear to the sound track of more than a century of basketball in the Bluegrass State and you’ll hear: The buzz of the Hyatt lobby in advance of a game at Rupp…
Kentucky great Cliff Hagan is the original old school Cool Cat
Contemporary Kentuckians could be forgiven for thinking Cliff Hagan is as much of an historical relic as his old coach Adolph Rupp. After all, like Rupp, Hagan has an arena named after him (University of Kentucky’s baseball stadium) as well as a large Boys & Girls Club (in his hometown of Owensboro). His legacy is…