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Sometimes referred to as the NCAA's death penalty, this sanction has been imposed twice against college basketball programs: (1) the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball program for the 1952–53 season; and (2) the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball program (then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana) for the 1973–74 and 1974 ...
Due to several Kentucky players found to be involved in a point-shaving scandal, the NCAA banned the school from the 1953 NCAA tournament and asked its member institutions to boycott playing the Wildcats. Thus, Kentucky's 1952—53 season was cancelled. ^B.
The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball program is the men's college basketball team of the University of Kentucky. It has eight NCAA championships, the best all-time winning percentage, and the most all-time victories. [2] The Wildcats compete in the Southeastern Conference and are coached by Mark Pope. [3]
This season's team is one of the most fondly remembered in UK's long basketball history. Due to major recruiting violations committed by Pitino's predecessor Eddie Sutton, the 1991–92 Wildcats were coming off a three-year postseason ban where the team was not allowed to compete in tournament play. [2] (Note the NCAA did not find Sutton ...
After taking the Indiana job in 1971, Knight won his first five games and six of his first seven against the Wildcats. Yet the defining moments of Knight’s history with Kentucky came in a two ...
In 1989, Kentucky basketball was found guilty of rampant violations of recruiting and eligibility rules. The Wildcats were facing the possibility of a death penalty after being sanctioned in 1988 for failing to cooperate with an earlier investigation.
John Calipari and Kentucky basketball made some unwanted history vs. Gonzaga. The Cats lost a 3rd straight game at Rupp Arena for the first time ever.
As Kentucky fan frustration has mounted in what has become a UK men’s basketball season of discontent, one often hears a variation on the same theme:. That the UK basketball program is in danger ...