Hawk. Jet. AP. JJ. Squeaky. When it comes to Bradley basketball's Mount Rushmore, there are many names to consider. The ...

This class includes Joe Smith, Brandon Adair, Mike Smith, and other legendary names from Virginia ...

1942 — Adolph Rupp: Final Four (in an eight-team tournament, that meant Kentucky won one game). 1973 — Joe B. Hall: Elite Eight. 1986 — Eddie Sutton: Elite Eight. 1992 — Rick Pitino: Elite ...

Kentucky men’s basketball players in their 1948 Olympic uniforms, from left: Ralph Beard, Kenny Rollins, Cliff Barker, Wallace “Wah Wah” Jones and Alex Groza, along with Coach Adolph Rupp ...

Kentucky is the leader with eight championships under five different coaches: Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith and John Calipari. Billy Donovan led the Gators to back-to-back ...

The product of Lexington’s Lafayette High School made the game-winning shot that gave Adolph Rupp’s Wildcats a 61-60 victory over Temple in the 1958 NCAA Tournament national semifinals.

Coach Adolph Rupp, for whom Kentucky's arena is named, won half of the program's championships (1948, 1949, 1951, 1958). 1. UCLA: 11 ...

Dan Shaughnessy The men’s NCAA tournament used to be great. But now that it’s professional basketball? No thanks.

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Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp was quoted as saying at the time. Oh, well. The Wildcats went to the NIT and were promptly drubbed 89-50 by CCNY, the champion of both the NIT and NCAA that year.

From Adolph Rupp’s post-retirement gig in basketball to John Calipari’s current job, just about every former Kentucky coach has seen his life after the Wildcats take a weird turn.