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February 5, 2023 at 4:30 AM. When the halftime buzzer sounded in Rupp Arena on Saturday night, there weren’t many Kentucky fans who gave up their seats. UK basketball great Mike Pratt was ...
Inducted in 1969. College Basketball Hall of Fame. Inducted in 2006. 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.
Rupp coached the University of Kentucky men's basketball team from 1930 to 1972. There, he gained the nicknames, "Baron of the Bluegrass", and "The Man in the Brown Suit". Rupp, who was an early innovator of the fast break and set offense, gained a reputation as an intense competitor, a strict motivator, and strategist.
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 ...
Eric Bledsoe was a freshman on John Calipari’s first Kentucky basketball team and will play for the La Familia squad in the TBT at Rupp Arena. Eric Bledsoe Seasons at UK : 2009-10.
The 2013–14 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in the 2013–14 college basketball season. The team played its home games in Lexington, Kentucky for the 39th consecutive season at Rupp Arena, with a capacity of 23,500. The team was led by fifth-year head coach John Calipari.
Ole Miss came into Rupp at No. 30 nationally in offensive efficiency and No. 10 in the country in 3-point shooting, the picture of a team that has ripped Kentucky’s defense to shreds over the ...