For the longest time, one man ruled as Kentucky's basketball coach: Adolph Rupp. He was everything Wildcat hoops and helped shape the program's prestige and, really, college basketball.
After all, Rupp Arena is the home of a Kentucky program that has won a whopping eight national championships since 1948, when legendary coach Adolph Rupp himself led the Wildcats to a 36-3 season ...
Six different coaches have led the Wildcats to conference tournament glory. Not surprisingly, it's led by Adolph Rupp, who won the event 13 times between the inaugural edition in 1933 and the ...
The Wildcats had Adolph Rupp (1930-72) and Joe B. Hall (1972-85) on the bench for more than a half-century, winning five national titles and playing in a combined nine Final Fours. Heathcote was ...
Hall for the third-most SEC Coach of the Year honors in league history. Only Adolph Rupp and C.M. Newton has won it more times. “It is great to be recognized by your peers,” Pearl said while ...
Hall (1978). Coach Adolph Rupp, for whom Kentucky's arena is named, won half of the program's championships (1948, 1949, 1951, 1958). The Bruins have gone 30 years without a national championship ...
ADOLPH RUPP, 4 CHAMPIONSHIPS After coaching high school basketball for four years, Rupp took over as Kentucky's head coach in 1930. Over the next 41 seasons, he became one of the best coaches in ...
Wednesday marked Calipari's 25th SEC tournament win, tying Wimp Sanderson for third-most of any head coach (Adolph Rupp 57, Billy Donovan 27). Does Calipari think the the Razorbacks have done ...