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Utah Utes men's basketball team, 1943–44 – "Blitz Kids" (freshmen Arnie Ferrin, Herb Wilkinson, Wat Misaka, Bob Lewis, Dick Smuin, Bill Kastlic and sophomore Fred Sheffield) [226] Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball in the late 1940s – "Fabulous Five" [ 227 ] ( Alex Groza , Ralph Beard , Wallace Jones , Cliff Barker and Ken Rollins ).
NBA nicknames have taken on lives of their own over recent decades. Historically very good, the current generation has been known to crank out some terrible monikers for hoops stars.
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What is a Boilermaker? Here's an explanation on Purdue's unique nickname as the basketball team heads into the 2024 NCAA Tournament:
This is an incomplete list of U.S. college nicknames. If two nicknames are given, the first is for men's teams and the second for women's teams, unless otherwise noted.
The nickname "Goat" has several proposed origins. In an article for The New York Times, Manigault stated that he got the nickname because a junior high school teacher kept pronouncing his name Mani-Goat. Other theories state that by the time Manigault was in high school, he was known as "The Goat" because of his quiet demeanor.