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Adolph Frederick Rupp(September 2, 1901 – December 10, 1977) was an American college basketballcoach. He is ranked seventh in total victories by a men's NCAA Division Icollege coach, winning 876 games in 41 years of coaching at the University of Kentucky.
From recruit to Rupp’s rafters, more stories and stats on UK basketball great Mike Pratt. Ben Roberts. February 5, 2023 at 7:30 AM. When the halftime buzzer sounded in Rupp Arena on Saturday ...
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.
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.
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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 ...
The 1965–66 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in NCAA competition in the 1965–66 season. Coached by Adolph Rupp, the team had no player taller than 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)—unusually small even for that era—and became known as "Rupp's Runts". The Wildcats were members of the Southeastern Conference ...