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Louisville: 126 games (123 regular-season and tournament wins and 3 tournament losses) vacated, covering four seasons (2011–2015). This includes the Cardinals' 2012 Final Four appearance and 2013 national title , making them the first Division I basketball program of either sex forced to vacate a national title.
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.
Thus, Kentucky's 1952—53 season was cancelled. ^B. After defeating LSU in a one-game playoff to win the 1954 SEC championship, three Kentucky players were ruled ineligible for the postseason because they had graduated in 1953 (when UK was banned from competing). As a result, Kentucky declined an invitation to the NCAA Tournament in protest. ^C.
This season's team is one of the most fondly remembered in UK's long basketball history. Due to major recruiting violations committed by Pitino's predecessor Eddie Sutton, the 1991–92 Wildcats were coming off a three-year postseason ban where the team was not allowed to compete in tournament play. [2] (Note the NCAA did not find Sutton ...
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.
In fact, Kentucky won games on the home court of four teams in the NCAA Tournament’s 68-team field — 87-85 at Florida on Jan. 6; 70-59 at Auburn on Feb. 17; 91-89 at Mississippi State on Feb ...
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.
But the distance from Eddyville (where Lyon County High School is) to Lexington equates to about a three-hour drive, and Perry has been able to take unofficial visits for several UK basketball ...