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Sometimes referred to as the NCAA's death penalty, this sanction has been imposed twice against college basketball programs: (1) the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball program for the 1952–53 season; and (2) the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball program (then known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana) for the 1973–74 and 1974 ...
Kentucky was upset by 15-seeded Saint Peter’s in the first round of the 2022 tournament. The Cats haven’t advanced past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament since 2019, and they have just ...
Four Kentucky college basketball teams all lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time, including John Calipari's Wildcats.
The Wildcats were the second-highest scoring team in college basketball this season at 89.4 points per game but allowed nearly 80 points per game. Only 18 teams allowed more points than Kentucky did.
The expectations were right, as Kentucky would head into the post-season with only 2 losses and a No. 5 ranking. After winning the SEC Tournament once again, Kentucky stormed to the NCAA Final Four to meet up with Michigan's "Fab Five" a team of young and highly talented recruits that brought Michigan to the championship game the year before.
Kentucky enters this season's event with 32 SEC Tournament crowns, one of which was vacated; the other 13 teams in the league have combined for only 31 tournament titles. Yet the Wildcats haven't ...
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The 1951 point-shaving scandal, occurred while Rupp was the head coach; it involved four basketball players who were arrested for taking bribes from gamblers to "shave points" during the National Invitation Tournament game against the Loyola Ramblers. The NCAA voted to ban Kentucky from competing for a year; canceling their 1952–53 season.