Joe B. Hall couldnt find a better carrier into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame than the national prestige of the University of Kentucky Wildcats.But on Nov. 18, when the honor is bestowed at an induction banquet in Kansas City, Mo., Hall wont be thinking only about his glorious career as a Kentucky coach.…
Joe B. Halls Hall of Fame coaching career started, ended in Denver
Joe B. Hall joins class of 10 into college Hall of Fame
Georgetown great Patrick Ewing and former Kansas star Clyde Lovellette lead a 10-member class that will be inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in November. The class was announced Tuesday in Kansas City. The two post players will be joined by North Carolina’s Phil Ford, Wyoming’s Kenny Sailors, Grambling’s Willis Reed and…
Photo: Joe B. Hall is the “Y” in Kentucky at today’s game against South Carolina
Photo: Joe B. Hall is the “Y” in Kentucky at today’s game against South Carolina
On this date in Kentucky basketball history…
Joe B. Hall saw Santa Claus a few hours before most people, and he just happened to be wearing Kentucky blue. “A Christmas Eve win on the road under these conditions is just super,” the Wildcat coach said Saturday after freshman guard James Blackmon banked in a 15-foot jumper with two seconds left to give…
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…
On this date in Kentucky basketball history…
Sam Bowie, Kentucky’s 7-foot-1-inch center, has been walking around on a broken leg and did not know it.
In His Old Kentucky Home, Far Away
Ever since you were old enough to drink water after 6 p.m., you’ve probably understood that Adolph Rupp ranked right up there with Colonel Sanders, Man o’ War, Mammoth Cave and other great Kentucky inventions. You’ve known it and believed it, another legend to help you through those desultory days when you needed a push every 15 minutes to get…
The “B” in Joe B. Hall stands for “Basketball”
A lacquer of frost is on the bluegrass again, time for the farmer to prepare his tobacco for auction, for the mare to wait out her foal, for the Governor and Senator to unwind from another round of that fine old Commonwealth tradition of musical seats. And time, too, for the voice of Kentucky basketball,…
The reinvention of Joe B. Hall
Joe B. Hall explains the key to successful living in one’s golden years with a two-part mantra. The first component is the need for joy. “And I’m having fun,” Hall says. F. Scott Fitzgerald, who famously said there are no second acts in American life, would be amazed to see the 82-year-old former University of…