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The 1978–79 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented University of Kentucky in the 1978–79 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Joe B. Hall and the team finished the season with an overall record of 19–12 (10–8 SEC).
The 1977–78 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team were coached by Joe B. Hall. The team finished the season with a 30–2 record and SEC Championship and won the 1978 NCAA Championship over the Duke Blue Devils, 94–88. Noting the all-or-nothing pressure exhibited on the team by Kentucky fans, Hall remarked before the title game that "This ...
Thus, Kentucky's 1952—53 season was cancelled. ^B. After defeating LSU in a one-game playoff to win the 1954 SEC championship, three Kentucky players were ruled ineligible for the postseason because they had graduated in 1953 (when UK was banned from competing). As a result, Kentucky declined an invitation to the NCAA Tournament in protest. ^C.
A quilt signed by every member of Kentucky’s 1978 NCAA men’s hoops national title team is available to help a good cause.
For all the attention on Kentucky’s ballyhooed freshmen, it is a veteran transfer who may be UK’s indispensable player. In the lore of UK basketball, Tre Mitchell is putting himself high on an ...
He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats, earning consensus second-team All-American honors. He led the team to the 1978 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship and was named that year's Final Four Most Outstanding Player due in most part to his 41-point performance in Kentucky's 94–88 victory over Duke in
The Cats were 4-for-32 from 3-point range in that 73-66 defeat, leading to one of the biggest what-ifs in Kentucky basketball history. “I do think about … we probably could have won a national ...
Coach Hall is one of only three men to both play on an NCAA championship team (1949– Kentucky) and coach an NCAA championship team (1978– Kentucky), and the only one to do so for the same school. [citation needed] The only others to achieve this feat are: Bob Knight – Player for Ohio State in 1960 and coach at Indiana in 1976, 1981, and 1987.