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Eklund is the team's all-time leader in winning percentage, with a .833 winning percentage. Statistically, Basil Hayden has been the least successful coach of the Wildcats, with a winning percentage of .187. Five coaches have received national coaching awards while the head coach of Kentucky: Rupp, Sutton, Pitino, Smith, and Calipari.
The Wildcats' all-time leading men's scorer and a two-time consensus All-American in 1969 (second team) and 1970 (first team). Played 15 seasons in the ABA and NBA with the Kentucky Colonels and Denver Nuggets ; named to the ABA All-Time Team in 1997; inducted as a player to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993.
The score received some media attention for being a 41-point win, as #41 was the number of Pope when he was a player at Kentucky. [7] [8] In Pope's third game as coach, ranked #19, he faced Kentucky's long-time rival #6 Duke University in the Champions Classic in Atlanta, Georgia. He won 77–72 in his first win against a ranked team as head ...
The University of Kentucky men’s and women’s basketball teams take the court for new coaches Mark Pope and Kenny Brooks in Memorial Coliseum. Live updates: Kentucky basketball’s Blue-White ...
Pope, who was hired last month, as the new head coach of the Wildcats, is going with Sierra Leone, a fitting choice for the former UK basketball player who will be returning to Lexington nearly 20 ...
If — if — Barnhart wanted to make a change at the top of the Kentucky men’s basketball program, there were two major obstacles to overcome. Calipari’s contract has a buyout of $33 million.
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 ...
The last team to do so in the SEC was the 2002–03 Kentucky Wildcats, and before that, the 1995–96 Kentucky Wildcats. Kentucky's regular season record was 30–1, with its only loss being by one point coming from a 3-pointer buzzer-beater by the Indiana Hoosiers' Christian Watford at Assembly Hall on December 10, 2011.