Kentucky will celebrate the 1983-1984 men’s basketball team this weekend with festivities surrounding Saturday’s game vs. Georgia
Reunion for 1984 Kentucky Men’s Basketball Team is Saturday
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.
A record was smashed on this date in Kentucky basketball history…
On this date in 2012, Anthony Davis had a career-high 27 points with 14 rebounds and seven blocked shots. His seven blocks put him at 89 for the year to break the mark previously held by Andre Riddick (1993-94) and Melvin Turpin (1982-83), who needed 34 and 31 games to get to 83 blocks, respectively.…
Looking back at Melvin Turpin’s near perfect game
The newly minted No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats (19-1, 5-0 Southeastern Conference) travel to historic Athens, Ga., to take on Mark Fox’s Georgia Bulldogs (10-9, 1-4 SEC) in a late-night league showdown. The Cats will be looking for a measure of payback after last year’s 77-70 loss at Georgia in a game best described as a tough, physical…
Anthony Davis is ESPN’s Player of the Night
Well, duh. They had this to say about the young man: “Anthony Davis was nearly perfect for the Kentucky Wildcats in their 86-63 win against Arkansas. The freshman had 27 points, 14 rebounds and seven blocks. He’s the first player to reach all three of those levels in a game since Herbert Hill of the…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Arkansas
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Arkansas
Video: Anthony Davis breaks Kentucky single-season record for blocks
Video: Anthony Davis breaks Kentucky single-season blocks record
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…
Coroner: Melvin Turpin died of self-inflicted gunshot
A coroner’s report said former Kentucky basketball star Melvin Turpin died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn had said Thursday that Turpin took his own life in his north Lexington house, but he didn’t say how. The report confirmed Friday that he died of a gunshot wound but gave no other…