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Walter’s Wildcat Dispatch — August 26, 2026
Reunion for 1984 Kentucky Men’s Basketball Team is Saturday
Kentucky will celebrate the 1983-1984 men’s basketball team this weekend with festivities surrounding Saturday’s game vs. Georgia
On this day in Kentucky basketball history in 1984
On March 8, 1984, Melvin Turpin scored 42 points against Georgia in the 1984 SEC Tournament setting a new scoring record for the tournament.
Some called them the Kentucky Mildcats
For months now, basketball fans in Kentucky have been wondering how a program with the biggest and best of everything can lose to a Middle Tennessee in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. That’s what happened, of course, to the Kentucky Wildcats—Mildcats, some called them—last March. Inevitably, a lot of fingers were pointed at…
Joe B. Hall sat everybody down for an old-fashioned Rupp reamin’…
Joe B. Hall would rather reveal what his middle initial stands for than admit that he felt some satisfaction when two Cats began clawing at one another—throwing punches, no less—during a recent practice. One of the pugilists was Winston Bennett, a rock-solid 6’7″ freshman forward. The other looked like a doo-wop singer on whom someone…