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A look back at Mike Pratt as a recruit, a player, a professional and more, with insights from Dan Issel and others on the Kentucky great.
Adolph Rupp left a lasting legacy on the Wildcats basketball program. In the fall of 1975 Lexington opened a new basketball arena for the Kentucky basketball program. The Wildcats moved off campus from Memorial Coliseum to Rupp Arena in the downtown metroplex. Appropriately the arena was named after the man that had built the program's ...
Adolph Frederick Rupp (September 2, 1901 – December 10, 1977) was an American college basketball coach. He is ranked seventh in total victories by a men's NCAA Division I college coach, winning 876 games in 41 years of coaching at the University of Kentucky.
Forty-three former Kentucky men's basketball players, coaches, and contributors are honored in Rupp Arena with banners representing their numbers hung from the rafters. With the streamlining of jersey numbers by the NCAA, the jerseys are retired but the numbers remain active.
Dan Issel, Tom Leach and Marcia Pratt talk about Kentucky basketball great Mike Pratt and what Saturday night’s honor would have meant to him. Mike Pratt’s jersey to join Rupp rafters. ‘It ...
Mike Pratt’s jersey will go into the Rupp Arena rafters Saturday night. Here’s a look at the Kentucky basketball players who are already up there.
One of Rupp's Fabulous Five. His jersey hangs in the rafters of Rupp Arena. Winston Bennett: Forward Louisville, Kentucky: 1984 1988 Was an All-SEC forward. Was Kentucky Mr. Basketball his senior season in high school. Former head coach of Kentucky State. Jerry Bird: Forward Corbin, Kentucky: 1954 1956 His jersey hangs in the rafters of Rupp ...
A capacity crowd fills Rupp Arena to the rafters in an exuberant greeting for the new Wildcats men’s basketball coach. On the day UK introduced Mark Pope, it was Kentucky fans who made a ...