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UK's 7 NCAA Championship Teams « Thread Started on Aug 22, 2007, 8:12pm »
UK 1947-48 NCAA Championship Team Kentucky 58 - Baylor 42 March 23, 1948 - New York "The Fabulous Five" UK's 1947-48 Record: 36-3
Alex Groza and Ralph Beard combined for 26 points and the Wildcats' defense held the Bears to 16 first half points to capture UK's first NCAA title.
The title victory enabled the Wildcats to become only the second team ever to win both the NIT and NCAA titles. UK, which finished the season 34-2, won the NIT title in 1946.
Paced by Groza and Beard, the Wildcats turned a 29-16 halftime lead into a 44-28 bugle midway through the second half. After Baylor rallied to cut the lead to 11, UK put the game out of reach as Wallace "Wah Wah" Jones scored four points to give the Wildcats a 15 point lead.
In addiction to Groza and Beard, the Wildcats also got nine points apiece from Jones and Kenneth Rollins.
Halftime: UK 29 - Baylor 16 Final: UK 58 - Baylor 42
Final Record: Won: 36; Lost: 3 Head Coach: Adolph Rupp Assistant Coaches: Harry Lancaster Manager: Humzey Yessin Team Captain(s): Ken Rollins Notes: NCAA Champions; SEC Champions; SEC Tournament Champions; Olympic Champions; Participated in the East Region of the NCAA Tournament
UK 1947-48 NCAA Champions
Front Row: Coach Adolph Rupp, Johnny Stough, Ralph Beard, Kenneth Rollins, Cliff Barker Jr, Dale Barnstable, Asst. Coach Harry Lancaster Second Row: Manager Humzey Yessin, Garland Townes, Jim Jordan, Joe Holland, Alex Groza, Wallace Jones, Jim Line, Roger Day, Trainer Wibert Bud Berger
The State of Kentucky is famous for its thoroughbreds and tobacco, for its hillbillies and sugar-cured hams, for its colonels and corn, for its beautiful belles and, probably most of all for its basketball teams.
The University of Kentucky's Wildcats started the 1947-48 season on November 29 and, in the four-month campaign, went on to win the distinction of "one of the greatest collegiate basketball teams of all time," as the Blue and White captured 36 victories in the strenuous 39-game season.
Only defeats by Temple University, Notre Dame and the Phillips 66 Oilers, the National AAU champions, marred the Kentucky record. Mixed with these contests were triumphs over such notable teams as Holy Cross, Baylor, DePaul, Columbia, St. John's, and the NIAB winners, the Louisville Cardinals.
The Fayette County Felines started the season taking seven consecutive wins, then dropped a one-point decision to Temple in Philadelphia. Bouncing back, the Cats won 11 more encounters before being upset by the strong Notre Dame quintet of South Bend. Then 18 more teams in a row were whipped by the Wildcats before they lost in the Olympic Trials finals to the Phillips squad.
In their home lair, Alumni gym, the Kentucky Kats took all 11 frays and now boost a mark of 64 consecutive victories in UK'S Euclid Avenue cage arena.
The famed Zip Kids of the Tobacco State finished the regular season with a 27-2 record. They copped the Southeastern Conference crown in Louisville early in March and went to the NCAA Tournament in New York with a mark of 31 wins and 2 defeats.
In the NCAA meet, the wiry Wildcats swept past Columbia, Holy Cross and Baylor to capture the championship honors and became only the second team in history to have won the NCAA and the National Invitational titles. Utah is the other team.
Then came the Olympic Trials, which were also held in the Mecca of basketball, New York City's Madison Square Garden. Capacity crowds saw the smooth-clicking "Caintucky" combine shoot past Louisville in the opening round and Baylor in the semi-finals.
In the finals, Kentucky met the winners of the opposite bracket, the Phillips Oilers of Bartlettsville, Oklahoma, who had clipped the National YMCA champ, Prospect Park of Brooklyn, and then the Denver Nuggets, to move into the title game with Kentucky.
The 40-minute skirmish that was played between the Oilers and the Wildcats has been described by the New York sports scribes as "perhaps the greatest basketball game ever staged in the history of the sport."
Led by the phenomenal guard, Ralph Beard, the Cats nearly upset the AAU champions, winners of 62 games in 65 contests for the season, but it was sevenfooter Bob Kurland who turned the tide in the dying minutes of the unforgettable fracas. "Foothills" Kurland, with the score 47-45, (Kentucky), dumped in three quick goals while the scrapping Cats hit for one.
The thrilling game ended, Phillips 53, Kentucky 49.
“I think right now everybody’s on notice,” Telep said. This is old school Kentucky right now, and the rest of the country has been served notice."-Dave Telep
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Re: UK's 7 NCAA Championship Teams « Reply #1 on Aug 22, 2007, 9:54pm »
UK 1948-49 NCAA Championship Team Kentucky 46 - Oklahoma A&M 36 March 29, 1949 - Seattle UK's 1948-49 Record: 32-2
Paced by Alex Groza's 25 points and a defense that limited the Aggies to a mere nine field goals, the Wildcats were crowned NCAA Champions for the second straight year.
Groza, a unanimous selection as the "Player of the Tournament," scored more than twice as many points as any other player. A&M's Jack Shelton was the game's only other player to score in double figures. He finished with 12 points.
The Aggies, coached by Hank Iba, led 5-2, but the Wildcats scored seven straight points, five by Groza, and never trailed again as they took a 25-20 first half lead.
UK extended the lead to 31-21 early in the second half and coasted the rest of the way.
Halftime: UK 25 - Oklahoma A&M 20 Final: UK 46 - Oklahoma A&M 36
Final Record: Won: 32; Lost: 2 Head Coach: Adolph Rupp Assistant Coaches: Harry Lancaster Manager: Humzey Yessin Final Ranking: 1st by AP Notes: NCAA Champions; SEC Champions; SEC Tournament Champions; Participated in the East Region of the NCAA Tournament
UK 1948-49 NCAA Champions
Front Row: Coach Adolph Rupp, Jim Line, Cliff Barker, John Stough, Ralph Beard, Joe Hall, Garland Townes, Asstistant Coach Harry Landcaster Second Row: Dale Barnstable, Walt Hirsch, Wallace Jones, Alex Groza, Bob Henne, Roger Day, Mgr. Humzey Yessin
Citation and this year's Wildcats will long be remembered in the Bluegrass.
Like Citation, the Cats were beaten twice, but came roaring back to win the big one and remain undisputed champions.
Kentucky, sure as death to win the National Invitational Tournament, was topped by a weak Loyola team of Chicago in the opening round, as all the seeded teams were uprooted.
However the next week Captain Alex Groza brought his men back to New York and was dubbed Alexander the Great when he conquered the East, scoring 57 points in two games, and then turning West, to Seattle where he set a scoring mark of 82 points, as the Cats retained the NCAA Crown they won lost year.
Citation was Horse of the Year by far and Kentucky was Team of the Year by farther. The AP poll, tabulated at the end of the regular season, hod the Cots way out in front distantly followed by Oklahoma A & M - NCAA finals victim, 46-36 - and Illinois - whipped by the Cats in the Eastern playoffs 74-47 - in second and third spots.
This Kentucky team won more honors than Conqueror Caesar. It won the SEC title for the sixth straight year, and took the NCAA for the second. It became the first team ever to be invited to both national tournaments; it was the first to have four teammates play in the All Star game; Ralph Beard and Alex Groza were placed on everybody's All America team and Wah Jones made Kentucky's third man, on the UP team.
Mr. Rupp's Riflemen and Mr. Wright's Whizz, are champions because they can get out in front to stay or come from behind to win. The Cats had to catch up with Holy Cross, Bowling Green, and Xavier. They showed they had endurance, licking Bradley for their fifth win in six days. They showed they had power, whipping Illinois and Notre Dame by 29 and 24 point margins. They showed they could operate under pressure, freezing the ball against Bowling Green and Tulane.
They played the best the nation had to offer and emerged with the best record, 32-2. What more can a champion do?
This was Kentucky's greatest team. Never again will a series of world events occur so as to bring a like caliber of boys together for such a length of time. It took Patton's Third Army to free 27-year-old Cliff Barker from a German concentration cam, where he cultivated his sleight-of-hand with a basketball, and back to UK. It took a national ruling to allow Wah Jones and Ralph Beard to play four straight years together. It was only coincidence that drove two greats like Beard and Groza - two All-Americans for three straight years - together under the tutelage of Coach Adolph Rupp.
Mr. Wright flips his lucky coin when he thinks of his two, Coaltown and Citation, but Mr. Rupp smiles heavenward when he thinks of his four.
Captain Alex Groza, who was chosen player of the years by Helms Foundation, made more records than Perry Como. He set a national season scoring record of 696 points; he set SEC season and game marks - he inked a mark of 34 in the Tennessee game, only to have it obliterated a week later by Vanderbilt's Adcock with 36, and had to hit for 38 against Georgia to make it stick-- and wound up the season hitting 42 percent of all shots taken. He also set SEC and NCAA tournament scoring records. Big AI was named basketball's outstanding performer, best player appearing in the Chicago stadium, NCAA most valuable, and most valuable in the East-West All Star game. This quiet, 6'7" senior will always be mentioned when all time basketball greats are discussed.
Kentucky's ball-bearing Ralph Beard was the most idolized athlete ever to enroll at UK. In training all year around, he's the perfect Wheaties ad, the All American boy. He hit long shots, jump shots, and crip shots with monotonous regularity, and when the chips were down, the Louisville Lad came through. One of his greatest tributes came during the black hour of the Loyola defeat. The defensive man had backed up on Rapid Ralph who had just dribbled across the mid-floor stripe; the New Yorkers eager for on upset, groaned and one fan shrieked, "Don't let that guy shoot! He'll beat you all by himself!" and he almost did, putting the Cats in the lead three times with long shots in the closing stages of the game. His sincere modesty, pure sportsmanship, and great desire to win will never be forgotten.
Wallace "Wah Wah" Jones joined Beard and former Wildcat Jack Tingle, as the only players ever to make the All SEC team four consecutive years Jones also owns the singular honor of being all conference in both football and basketball the same year. Setting a national high school scoring record in the pivot at Harlan, Jones came to the University as a center. However he switched to the forward post his sophomore year where his accuracy from the side of the floor became known the country over. An all time UK great, Jones earned 11 letters in varsity football, basketball and baseball.
Cliff Barker, the Grand Old Man of basketball, didn't get the newspaper inches his teammates did, but not because he didn't deserve them. He handles a basketball like it were an apple, doing everything but eating it. He liked to pass to his teammates and was known as no great shakes at long shooting until the last seven seconds of the last game he played in Alumni Gym. With seconds left of the regular season, Bark squinted at the basket 65 feet away and almost knocked the backboard down and the roof off as 2850 students screeched their surprise at seeing the ball bang through the nets.
Dale Barnstable, while not a high scorer, stayed in the starting lineup because of his hustle and driving desire to ploy ball. The 6'2" junior is a good shot from the forward position, but likes to drive in for closeups.
Jim Line has a left arm more widely known than Lefty Grove's. He came off the bench when no one could score and pushed Kentucky into the lead single armedly, against Villanova in the NCAA, scoring 21 points. He makes straight "A"s in Engineering.
Sophomore Walt Hirsch is Barker's successor as a ball flipper. He likes to slap the ball rather than pass it. He hit 32 percent of his shots and will probably join Barnstable and Line in next year's starting lineup. A slugging first baseman, Hirsch figures to play professional baseball when he is graduated.
John Stough, Roger Day, Garland Townes, AI Bruno and Bob Henne rounded out the greatest bunch of basketball bouncers college basketball has ever seen.
Pictures from the 1948-49 Season
COACH ADOLPH RUPP
ASST. COACH HARRY LANCASTER
Al Groza led the Wildcats, the Southeaster Conference and the nation in filling baskets with points this year. He's on top of them all.
Ralph Beard and Cliff Barker were Kentucky's Pinkerton-like guards. Beard made All American three years for his all around play; Barker can do anything with a ball, including scoring two points from 65 feet out.
Wah Jones and Dale Barnstable started at the forward positions most of the year. Jones rebounding and Barney's hustle did a lot toward making it a 32-2 season.
Jim Line and Walt Hirsch are two left handers that couldn't be stopped when they were right. Line stepped off the bench and won the NCAA almost single-armedly, shoving through 31 and 15 points in the Villanova and Illinois games. Sophomore Hirsch rebounds, shoots, and passes like a surefire All America prospect in the near future.
Rapid Ralph roars by his man again for two more points.
Cliff Barker in his own off hand way scores while Walt Hirsch sees the whole thing.
Wah Jones and Big Al were hands and wrists above all opponents this year on the back boards. Rebounding was the difference in all the tight ones.
Dale Barnstable has the ball pointed out to him while Jim Line and Wah Jones try to get oriented.
Bob Henne, Garland Townes, Roger Day, John Stough
If the defensive man backs up, Beard can hit a long one; if he gets too close Rapid Ralph can run around him; this one got too close.
Being a big, high scorer isn't all peaches and cream. Even though gagged and held, Groza racked up 38 points against these Georgia boys.
Top: The "Best Band in Dixie" welcomes the national champions home. Middle: A throng of admirers surrounds Ralph Beard's convertible. Bottom: The speech-making gets underway in front of the Administration Building.
“I think right now everybody’s on notice,” Telep said. This is old school Kentucky right now, and the rest of the country has been served notice."-Dave Telep
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Re: UK's 7 NCAA Championship Teams « Reply #2 on Aug 23, 2007, 5:59pm »
UK 1950-51 NCAA Championship Team Kentucky 68 - Kansas State 58 Match 27, 1951 - Minneapolis UK's 1950-51 Record: 32-2
Bill Spivey scored 22 points and an ailing Cliff Hagan sparked the Wildcats to their third NCAA title.
With a squad consisting of only six healthy players - Walt Hirsch was ineligible and Hagan was plagued by an infected throat - the Wildcats hardly looked like championship material as Kansas State broke out to 20-12 lead.
It was then that Rupp inserted ailing Hagan. It was a move that may have proved the difference as the freshman forward sparked a rally that saw UK cut the Kansas State lead to 29-27 at the half.
Led by Hagan and Spivey, who dominated the boards, UK outscored Kansas State 41-29 in the second half to complete the come from-behind-victory.
Halftime: Kansas State 29 - UK 27 Final: Kentucky 68 - Kansas State 58
Final Record: Won: 32; Lost: 2 Head Coach: Adolph Rupp Assistant Coaches: Harry Lancaster Team Captain(s): Walter Hirsch Final Ranking: 1st by AP and 1st by UPI Notes: NCAA Champions; SEC Champions; Participated in the East Region of the NCAA Tournament
UK 1950-51 NCAA Champions Standing: Frank Ramsey, Shelby Linville, Bill Spivey, Roger Lane, Lou Tsioropoulos, Read Morgan Seated: Coach Adolph Rupp, Cliff Hagan, C.M. Newton, Walt Hirsch, Paul Lansaw, Dwight Price, Asst. Coach Harry Lancaster Bottom Row: Lindle Castle, Lucian Whitaker, Bobby Watson, Guy Strong, Charles Riddle
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Re: UK's 7 NCAA Championship Teams « Reply #3 on Aug 23, 2007, 6:23pm »
UK 1957-58 NCAA Championship Team Kentucky 84 - Seattle 72 March 22, 1958 - Louisville "The Fiddlin' Five" UK's 1957-58 Record: 23-6
Senior Vernon Hatton scored 30 points and the Wildcats overcame a 25-point, 19-rebound performance by Elgin Baylor to capture their fourth NCAA Championship.
Led by Hatton and Johnny Cox, who finished with 24 points, the Wildcats twice battled back from 11-point deficits to gain the victory. Trailing for much of the game, UK grabbed its first lead with 6:08 when Don Mills hit a hook shoot to give the Wildcats a 61-60 lead. Moments later, Cox hit a jump shot to make it 63-60 and UK never trailed again.
John Crigler added 14 points and 14 rebounds for the victors. Mills and Adrian Smith finished with nine and seven points respectively. Aside from Baylor, Seattle recieved 17 points from Charley Brown and 16 from Jerry Frizzell.
NOTE: Not happy with the performance of his players early in the season, Kentucky Coach Adolph Rupp said, "THEY MIGHT BE PRETTY GOOD BARNYARD FIDDLERS, BUT WE HAVE A CARNEGIE HALL SCHEDULE, AND IT WILL TAKE VOLINISTS TO PLAY THAT COMPETITION."
And thus the Wildcats starters an experienced (four seniors, one junior) if anonymous lot became known as "The Fiddlin' Five". The tournament committee held Kentucky in such low that it had scheduled regional play in Lexington and the Final Four in Louisville, thinking the Wildcats would not even qualify; instead, they (Kentucky) reached the finals.
Final Record: Won: 23; Lost: 6 Head Coach: Adolph Rupp Assistant Coaches: Harry Lancaster, Bill Wireman Manager: Jay Atkerson Team Captain(s): Ed Beck Final Ranking: 9th by AP and 14th by UPI Notes: NCAA Champions; SEC Champions; Participated in the Mideast Region of the NCAA Tournament
UK 1957-58 NCAA Champions Front Row: Coach Adolph Rupp, Adrian Smith, John Crigler, Ed Beck, Don Mills, Johnny Cox, Vernon Hatton, Asst. Coach Harry Lancaster Second Row: Student Manger Jay Atkerson, Earl Adkins, Billy Smith, Phil Johnson, Bill Cassady, Lincoln Collinsworth and Harold Ross
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Re: UK's 7 NCAA Championship Teams « Reply #4 on Aug 23, 2007, 7:12pm »
UK 1977-78 NCAA Championship Team Kentucky 94 - Duke 88 March 27, 1978 - St. Louis UK's 1977-78 Record: 30-2
Senior Jack Givens put on one of the finest individual performances in NCAA Championship history in leading the Wildcats past the Blue Devils.
With many fans among the crowd of 18,721 chanting "GOOSE, GOOSE," Givens scored 41 points, three short of the record for a championship game, to help the Wildcats to their fifth NCAA title and first in 20 years.
Givens' dominance was clearly evident in the first half as he scored 23 points, including UK's last 16 of the half, to turn a 29-28 UK lead into a 45-38 cushion. It was a deficit from which the Blue Devils would not recover.
Overall, Givens made 18 of 27 field goal attempts, five of eight free throws and added eight rebounds and three assists.
Technicals - Duke Bench Halftime: UK 45 - Duke 38 Final: Kentucky 94 - Duke 88
Final Record: Won: 30; Lost: 2 Head Coach: Joe B. Hall Assistant Coaches: Dick Parsons, Leonard Hamilton, Joe Dean Jr., Frank Ramsey Final Ranking: 1st by AP and 1st by UPI Notes: NCAA Champions; SEC Champions; Participated in the Mideast Region of the NCAA Tournament
UK 1977-78 NCAA Champions Front Row: Coach Joe Hall, Jay Shidler, Dwane Casey, Kyle Macy, Jack Givens, Tim Stephens, Chris Gettelfinger, Truman Claytor, Asstistant Coach Dick Parsons Second Row: Asstistant Trainer Walt McCombs, Manager Don Sullivan, LaVon Williams, Scott Courts, Mike Phillips, Rick Robey, Chuck Aleksinas, Fred Cowan, James Lee, Asstistant Coach Leonard Hamilton, Asstistant Coach Joe Dean Jr.
Game Writeup - Paul Borden, Louisville Courier Journal
Goose Leads Wildcats to 5th N.C.A.A. Title
ST. LOUIS, March 27, 1978 -- Kentucky can celebrate now. Jack (Goose) Givens, in the finest performance of his sparkling career and one of the best ever in N.C.A.A. championship game history, led the Wildcats to their fifth national title last night.
Kentucky's 94-88 victory over Duke in the final game of the 40th annual N.C.A.A. tournament climaxed a season of pressure in grand style for the darlings of the Bluegrass. "The pressure's been on six seasons, really," said Wildcat coach Joe B. Hall as he was mobbed by fans, reporters and television crews on the floor of the Checkerdome afterward.
Hall, who took over for Adolph Rupp in 1972 and lived in the shadow of the legendary coach, had spoken of the pressures of coaching at Kentucky a day earlier. He said his team, ranked No. 1 nearly every week of the season, had not taken time to enjoy any of its accomplishments -- including a 31st Southeastern Conference crown -- this year. It can now.
Givens, the No. 2 all-time Kentucky scorer, put on a tremendous show before a steamy crowd of 18,721 scoring a career-high 41 points. He hit 18 of 27 from the floor in scoring the third highest total for an individual in the N.C.A.A. final. His final-game total is topped only by Bill Walton's 44 in 1973 and Gail Goodrich's 42 in 1965, both for U.C.L.A.
"There's no finer way to go out," said Givens, who cut the last strand of the netting on the south basket to the cheers of the Kentucky throng. "I'm happy for the team and for the people of the state of Kentucky because they love basketball so much there."
Givens scored 16 of Kentucky's final 18 points in the first half, getting the Wildcats on top, 45-38, at the break. It was a whirlwind finish in the closing minutes of the first half that got Kentucky a fairly comfortable margin.
With 57 seconds left, Duke's Gene Banks, who played despite receiving a death threat before the game, hit two free throws to cut Kentucky's lead to 39-38.
The next trip down, Givens fumbled the ball in the lane but recovered to put in a jumper over 6-foot-11 Mike Gminski, who missed from underneath at Duke's end.
Givens drilled one from the corner to get it up to 43-38 as the final seconds of the period ticked away. Duke rushed the ball down the floor, but Banks was called for charging -- Givens, of course.
Givens went to the free throw line and hit both shots with three seconds left to put Kentucky on top by seven points.
"I was really ready," said Givens, "I never felt better before a game than I did tonight."
Duke, probably the youngest team ever to play in the final game with a starting lineup of a junior, two sophomore and two freshmen, hung tough, however, cutting Kentucky's lead to three in the opening minutes of the second period.
"Duke played an outstanding game," said Hall, "and we played super."
Kentucky, whose four seniors -- Givens, Rick Robey, James Lee and Mike Phillips -- had played and lost to U.C.L.A. in the 1975 championship game never faltered.
Lee got Kentucky its first basket of the second half with a hook, and after Duke's Jim Spanarkel got that basket back, Givens missed a jumper, Lee missed a follow-up shot and Givens tipped it in.
Kentucky got a little more breathing room when Duke coach Bill Foster was called for a technical foul with 17:35 to go. Foster thought Kentucky's Truman Claytor had walked under the pressure in the backcourt, but all he got for his protests was the "T" from Big Ten referee Jim Bain.
Kyle Macy, as is his custom, made both free throws, and then bounced a pass into Robey, who dunked one to give Kentucky a 55-46 lead. Kentucky stretched that margin to 12 points quickly at 60-48 and moved the lead up to 16 at 66-50 when Givens hit a follow shot and was fouled. Still, Duke refused to give in.
In fact, in the closing seconds, when Hall pulled his veterans from the game, Duke got the deficit down to 92-88 after Gminski hit a turnaround jumper. Duke called time-out with 10 seconds left to set up a press defense. But by then, Kentucky's regulars were back in the game,and the Kentucky season ended in a most appropriate fashion.
A long pass went to Lee in the Kentucky forecourt, and the big senior from Lexington eluded Duke's Bob Bender and went in for a dunk that made the final margin six points.
Free throws kept Duke in the first period. Duke ran off a string of 12 straight and trailed only 21-20 when the teams went to the bench for a television time-out at 9:41. For the first period, Duke was 20-for-21 from the line and only 9-for-23 from the field -- 39.1 percent. Kentucky, meanwhile, was 18-for-34 form the field but went to the line only 12 times and hit nine.
Banks led Duke in scoring with 22 points followed by Spanarkel with 21 and Gminski with 20. After Givens' 41, Robey followed with 20 for Kentucky. Robey also had 11 rebounds to lead Kentucky. Gminski led Duke's rebounding with 12 as Duke enjoyed a 35-32 edge on the boards.
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Re: UK's 7 NCAA Championship Teams « Reply #5 on Aug 23, 2007, 9:59pm »
UK 1995-96 NCAA Championship Team Kentucky 79 - Syracuse 67 April 1, 1996 - East Rutherford, N.J. "The UnTouchables" UK's 1995-96 Record: 34-2
Tony Delk tied a championship game record with seven three-pointers and the Wildcats withstood a late Orangemen rally to win UK's sixth national title before a capacity crowd of 19,229 in the Continental Airlines Arena at the Meadowlands.
Delk, the Final Four's Most Outstanding Player, canned seven of 12 three-pointers to lead the Cats with 24 points. But after Syracuse had cut the lead to two, 64-62, with 4:46 remaining, a Delk misfire was tipped in by Walter McCarty to extends UK's lead to four. After holding the Orangemen on the next possession, Dereck Anderson drained a three to push the lead to seven. Sryacuse would get no closer than five in the final minutes.
Delk was joined on the Final Four All-Tournament Team by Freshman Ron Mercer, who was sensational off the bench, scoring a career-high 20 points on 8-12 shooting from the field, including 3-4 from three-point range.
Final Record: Won: 34; Lost: 2 Head Coach: Rick Pitino Assistant Coaches: Jim O'Brien, Delray Brooks, Winston Bennett Team Captain(s): Tony Delk, Walter McCarty and Mark Pope Final Ranking: 2nd by AP and 2nd by CNN/USA Today Notes: NCAA Champions; SEC Champions; ECAC Holiday Festival Champions; Participated as #1 Seed in the Midwest Region of the NCAA Tournament
UK 1995-96 NCAA Champions Front Row: Asstistant Coach Delray Brooks, Head Coach Rick Pitino, Allen Edwards, Dereck Anderson, Jeff Sheppard, Tony Delk, Anthony Epps, Cameron Mills, Wayne Turner, Associate Coach Jim O'Brien, Assistant Coach Winston Bennett Standing: Equipment Manager Bill Keightley, Adminstrative Assititant George Barber, Jason Lathrem, Oliver Simmons, Nazr Mohammed, Mark Pope, Walter McCarty, Antoine Walker, Jared Prickett, Ron Mercer, Trainer Eddie Jamiel, Asstistant Strenght Coach Layne Kaufman, Strenght Coach Shaun Brown
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., April 1 -- No one can touch them now. The Kentucky Wildcats fulfilled the most burdensome demand in college basketball tonight. They overcame a persistent but outnumbered group of Syracuse Orangemen, a team that somehow narrowed a 13-point second-half deficit to 2 and swelled Continental Arena with the hope of one of the most memorable upsets in the history of the national collegiate tournament.
But in the final, decisive minutes, the Wildcats, christened the Untouchables tonight by their coach, Rick Pitino, overcame every last desperate obstacle in their championship season with a 76-67 victory. Kentucky (34-2) won its sixth national championship -- second only to the 11 won by U.C.L.A. -- and its first since 1978.
The victory, coming a day after Tennessee won the women's title, gave the Southeastern Conference both national basketball championships this year.
Kentucky won in a manner that was as impressive as it was uncharacteristic. The Wildcats won at the defensive end, not through offensive brilliance. They won with their fifth-lowest point total of the season. They won with a rotation of seven players for most of the night, not the normal waves of 10 or more. They persevered when the pace of the game was much closer to the Syracuse plan than theirs, when the noise from much of the sellout crowd of 19,229 was pushing against them.
Kentucky had four double-figure scorers. Tony Delk tied a championship-game record with seven 3-point baskets, scored 24 points, and brought back memories of the 41 points Jack Givens scored to beat Duke for the 1978 title. Delk was voted the most outstanding player of the Final Four.
Ron Mercer, a freshman, scored 20 on 8-of-12 shooting. Derek Anderson and Antoine Walker each scored 11. Kentucky struggled at times against the zone and often lacked its trademark balance. The Wildcats, 49 percent shooters until tonight, became champions despite making just 38 percent of their shots. That figure was the lowest by a championship team since Loyola of Chicago won the 1963 championship game shooting 27 percent.
It was the Wildcats' relentless defensive approach, a decisive factor for the second consecutive game, that earned them Pitino's nickname, one that will stand with the Fabulous Five and the Fiddlin' Five, champions from the Adolph Rupp era. Kentucky's 21.5-point average margin of victory in the six games was the fourth-largest in the history of the tournament.
The last two games became two of the hardest-earned victories they would know. Against the 2-3 zone that propelled the fourth-seeded Orangemen through the West Regional, making them the lowest-seeded team to reach the championship game in four years, Delk scored 18 of his 24 points in the first half. Four of Delk's 6 second-half points came at once, on a 3-point shot he made while falling out of bounds along the left baseline as he was fouled by Todd Burgan. Delk's foul shot gave the Wildcats a 59-46 lead with 11 minutes 12 seconds to play.
"We haven't been a 3-point shooting team with the exception of Tony most of the year," Pitino said. "We took 27 tonight and I can honestly say 27 of them were great shots. And that's rare."
The season over, the coach's definitions could be more generous. Delk was harder on himself as he remembered the 4-point play. "I kind of saw them coming, so I had to fall down because I thought Coach would have got mad, because he was running at me. It was a bad shot."
Pitino smiled. "I said we didn't take any bad ones," he said.
"That was the only one," Delk said.
The Orangemen (29-9) were able to mount a comeback under the most difficult of circumstances, with Lazarus Sims, their point guard, playing with an injured left wrist. John Wallace scored 29 points on 11-of-19 shooting and had 10 rebounds. Burgan scored 19 on 7-of-10 shooting. But it was the frustration of Sims, who suffered the injury in a collision with Anthony Epps with 13:38 to play, that made the Syracuse task that much more difficult. "We had to get to Sims," Pitino said. "Make him tired, get him exhausted and get him working. We had to cut off the interior, but we had to pressure him. And certainly any time you get him out of the game, it's a big factor."
Sims, in his previous five tournament games, had earned 39 assists with 20 turnovers. Tonight he had 7 assists and 7 turnovers, and when he went to the sideline, his left arm dangling at his side, the Orangemen temporarily lost their structure. As Sims had his lower arm wrapped tightly, in hopes of a return, the Orangemen began a streak of five turnovers on their next five possessions, a stretch that allowed the Wildcats to build their 13-point lead.
The Kentucky lead was still 10 after Anderson made a shot from the top of the key with 9:18 to play. Then came the rally. Burgan made a 3-point shot. Wallace scored on a dunk, drew a foul, and completed the 3-point play. After Walker's basket increased the Kentucky lead to 64-58, Wallace added two scores, a layup and two foul shots to pull the Orangemen within 64-62 with 4:46 to play.
One last time, Kentucky had an answer. Walter McCarty converted an offensive rebound on Delk's miss to build the lead back to 4. Anderson made a 22-foot jumper from the left side after taking a pass from McCarty.
Jason Cipolla brought the Orangemen back within 5 with a 14-foot shot along the baseline. But Mark Pope made a 6-foot jumper in the lane with 3:03 to play, and the Wildcats were ahead, 71-64.
Then Wallace was called for an offensive foul, one created by Epps, with 2:48 to play. "We should have won the game," Wallace said. "Personally, we got a couple of bad calls that could have gone either way. But calls are irreversible."
Syracuse scored one basket in the last 3:23, a 3-point shot by Burgan that brought them within 5 with 2:01 to play. Wallace fouled out with 1:06 to go. Sims, having lost much of the feeling in his left hand, was limited. "I feel I let the team down," Sims said. "I got them this far and didn't capitalize. I feel I let them down. Aside from losing my father and grandfather, this is the worst feeling."
Sim's voice was soft, his eyes pointed toward the floor as he walked slowly to the dressing room for the last time in his college career. The Wildcats, walking the other way, stopped when they saw him. Delk embraced Sims, and so did Pitino, and then the Wildcats moved on. One of their voices shouted, "Repeat." At Kentucky, the joy of one championship season is followed that quickly by the expectation of another.
Pictures from the Championship Game
Rick Pitino gives some advice to Anthony Epps
Ron Mercer scores two of his season-high twenty points
“I think right now everybody’s on notice,” Telep said. This is old school Kentucky right now, and the rest of the country has been served notice."-Dave Telep
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Re: UK's 7 NCAA Championship Teams « Reply #6 on Aug 23, 2007, 10:34pm »
UK 1997-98 NCAA Championship Team Kentucky 78 - Utah 69 March 30, 1998 - San Antonio "The Comeback Cats" UK's 1997-98 Record 35-4
Kentucky battled back from a 31-41 halftime deficit to Utah - the largest halftime margin every overcome in an NCAA title game - to claim the school's seventh national championship before 40,509 fans in the Alamodome.
Utah was propelled to the early lead thanks to a 24-6 rebounding advantage in the first half. But Heshimu Evans sparked the "Comeback Cats" off the bench with seven straight points early in the second half. Later, Final Four Most Outstanding Player Jeff Sheppard canned a baseline jumper with 4:54 remaining to give UK a 65-64 lead. The exhausted Utes then missed 11 consecutive field goals as the Wildcats claimed the second NCAA Championship in three years. Scott Padgett joined Sheppard on the All-Final Four Team after scoring 17 points. UK out rebounded the Utes 18-15 in the second half.
Final Record: Won: 35; Lost: 4 Head Coach: Orlando Smith Assistant Coaches: George Felton, Shawn Finney, Mike Sutton Team Captain(s): Jeff Sheppard, Allen Edwards and Cameron Mills Final Ranking: 5th by AP and 1st by USA Today/ESPN Notes: NCAA Champions; SEC Champions; SEC Tournament Champions; Orlando Smith's First Season Participated as #2 Seed in the South Region of the NCAA Tournament
UK 1997-98 NCAA Champions Front Row:(L-R) Assistant Coach Mike Sutton, Head Coach Orlando "Tubby" Smith, Saul Smith, Cameron Mills, Jeff Sheppard, Wayne Turner, Steve Masiello, Assistant Coach George Felton, Assistant Coach Shawn Finney Standing: Special Assistant Leon Smith, Administrative Assistant Simeon Mars, Equipment Manager Bill Keightley, Ryan Hogan, Heshimu Evans, Scott Padgett, Nar Mohammed, Jamaal Magloire, Micheal Bradley, Myron Anthony, Allen Edwards, Trainer Eddie Jamiel, Strenght Coach Tom Boyd
Game Writeup - Courtesy of Dr. Jeffrey Neil Burch; Dr. J's UK Newsletter, Vol. 7 No. 30. (All Rights Reserved)
Comeback Cats Usurp Utes Undeniably:
The University of Kentucky Wildcats won their 7th NCAA Championship (and 2nd in 3 seasons) as they defeated Utah in the national finals of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, by a score of 78-69. Kentucky was the #2 seed in the South, with Utah the #3 seed in the West (the Cats had been ranked #5 in the last AP poll, with Utah coming in at #7). In winning, Kentucky set a record - no team had ever won the NCAAs after trailing by more than 8 pts at halftime, yet Kentucky trailed by 10 and came back to win the game by 9. Coach Tubby Smith, by achieving this feat, has become the NCAA's winningest 1st year coach at any school. Tubby also became only the 3rd coach in NCAA history to win the national championship in his 1st season at a school (Steve Fisher of Michigan did it in 1989, but Fisher only coached for the NCAA Tournament games), and is the 2nd such coach to do so while coaching the entire year (Ed Jucker was the new head coach at Cincinnati in 1961 when he won an NCAA title). In the UK Radio Network discussion following the game, it was mentioned by Cameron Mills that Nazr Mohammed coined the name "The Undeniables" for this squad, which is what the team calls itself during the end of the season.
Kentucky got the opening tap, and Mohammed sank a left handed hook shot to open the scoring. Doleac came right back with a 6 ft shot. Edwards missed a 3, but Turner stole the ball and this led to a Padgett layup. Mottola [JNB note - whose name included umlauts which I shall omit] hit a 16 footer to knot the score at 4-4. Mohammed missed inside, and a jump ball was forced on the rebound, but UK got another steal, and Sheppard had a smooth drive to make it 6-4 UK. Following another pair of steals and a Padgett missed 3, Mohammed got a layup inside to make it 8-4. Utah then scored the next 4 pts to tie the game at 8-8. Magloire completed an old-fashioned 3, but Johnsen hit a 3 to tie the score at 11-11. Edwards and Evans missed shots, and Magloire had a solid block of a Jensen shot, but Kentucky fell asleep on the inbounds play and Jensen had an uncontested layup under the basket to put the Utes up 13-11. Sheppard tied the game immediately, but Mottola had a layup following a scramble for the ball. When Mottola put back a missed Jackson 3, Utah led 17-13 and there was a TV timeout.
Following several misses and steals, Mohammed decided to try an 18 foot shot which hit nothing but air. After a Utah foul, however, Nazr got a nice book shot and cut the lead to 17-15 Utah. Miller made 1 of 2 FT attempts, Padgett hit a high bank shot, Doleac hit an 8 ft turnaround shot, and Edwards hit Mohammed for a layup to make the score 20-19 Utah. Doleac made a putback, Padgett had a putback, and Mohammed picked up his 2nd foul against Doleac just before the next TV timeout. Mottola hit 2 FTs when play resumed after a Magloire block (which appeared pretty clean) was called a foul. Sheppard had an airball jumper (he might have been fouled), UK had a steal and a Turner layup ensued to make it 24-23 Utah. Kentucky got a 5 s defensive call, but after a miss, Jensen made a layup for a 26-23 lead. Doleac was left unguarded outside, and he hit a 3 to give Utah a 29-23 lead with around 5.5 minutes left in the half. The Utes continued on their spurt, as Evans got twisted around and lost control (and the ball), and Jackson made a layup past the defense for a 31-23 margin. Coach Smith decided not to call a timeout, however, and when Sheppard missed a 3, Jensen complete an old- fashioned 3 pt play (the foul being totally unnecessary for UK) and a 34-23 Utah margin with around 4.5 minutes to play. Finally Magloire hit a long hook, but Miller made 1 of 2 FT tosses on the next Ute possession. Padgett hit a long hook, and Edwards followed with a beautiful drive to make it 36-29 Utah with 3 minutes to go. Bradley fouled Doleac, who hit 1, then Mills was fouled and made both of his as the next TV timeout occurred.
Kentucky stole the ball when play resumed, but turned it right back over again, and Johnsen hit an 8 footer. Hansen hit a long 2, and it was 41-31. Edwards and Hansen both missed shots, and the halftime score stood at 41-31. Utah might have felt confident - no team in NCAA history had come back to win the national title after trailing by more than 8 pts at the half (this was accomplished by Loyola in 1963, when they trailed 29-21 to Cincinnati at intermission but came back to win 60-58 in OT). The Utes might also have taken comfort in the fact that they had not trailed at all in any 1998 NCAA game in the 2nd half. Utah had an amazing 24-6 halftime lead in rebounds. Utah had 12 turnovers at the break, while the Wildcats had 6.
The Utes stole the ball to begin the 2nd half, and when Mohammed goaltended a Miller shot, Utah had a 43-31 edge, their largest margin of the game. Padgett connected on an alley-oop, then Miller blew past the defense to make it 45-33. Sheppard hit a leaner, and then Utah had a turnover when Doleac failed to move to catch a pass (an early sign that the Utes were beginning to tire). Sheppard drove the lane and connected, and it was 45-37 Utah. Mohammed picked up his 3rd foul against Mottola, who hit both attempts. Evans connected with a 3 with around 16 minutes left in the game, and it was 47-40 Kentucky. Mottola hit a 3, and Magloire missed with a hook as the 1st TV timeout of the 2nd half occurred.
Evans hit yet another 3 to close it to 50-43 Utah, and then both Utah and Edwards missed 3s. Evans sliced to the basket and made a FG which cut the Utah margin to 50-45 with 13.5 minutes remaining. Johnsen walked, but UK made a bad pass for a turnover. Miller could not complete the old fashioned 3, but Utah got 2 more tries on rebounds from the missed FT. Padgett eventually nailed a 3, to make it Utah 52-48. Johnsen had a wide open layup, but Sheppard put back his own miss to make it 54-50 Utah, and the Utes were definitely dragging up and down the court. When Magloire fouled Jensen, he made both FTs, and it was 56-50 Utah at the next TV timeout.
Turner made 1 of 2 FT tosses, and Doleac made both of his when fouled by Magloire for a 58-51 lead with 10 minutes left in the game. But Edwards hit a driving shot, Mohammed bobbled the ball yet laid it in, and Mills hit a 3 which tied the game at 58-58. UK got its 1st lead of the 2nd half as Sheppard stole the ball and went in for a dunk, causing Utah to call a 20 s timeout to try to regain composure. Mottola was fouled, and his FTs tied the game. Miller had a driving shot after a UK turnover, and Jensen had a layup after a Padgett 3 miss, to make it 64-60 Utah. After a Kentucky timeout, Mills hit a 3, and Sheppard made an 8 footer to give the Cats a 65-64 edge. Kentucky never trailed again, with Magloire making a pair of FT tosses after Mottola's 4th foul. Doleac made 1 of 2 FT shots, and Padgett made 2 FTs, to make it 69-65 Kentucky with 4 minutes left. Miller picked up his 4th foul, and Turner made 1 of 2 from the line. UK ran the clock down low but got off a lousy shot with 2 minutes left, with Miller making 1 of 2 from the charity stripe to cut it to 70-66 UK. With 34 seconds left, Padgett made 2 FTs, and when Doleac got his 4th foul, Evans did the same, for a 74-66 Kentucky lead. Miller bricked a 3, and Turner got a dunk for Kentucky's largest lead of the game at 76-66. Jensen hit a 3 with 10 seconds left, cutting it to 76-69. Sheppard was fouled during inbounding, and he made both his throws for a 78-69 edge. Jensen missed a final shot, and Kentucky had reeled in their 7th NCAA championship (with a score rather reminiscent of the 76-67 margin against Syracuse in 1996).
Utah managed only 4 FGs in the game's last 16 minutes, and 1 of these (by Jensen) occurred with only 10 seconds left in the game and the outcome no longer in doubt. UK for the 1997-98 season was 10-2 when trailing at the half. The Utes had only twice all season given up as many as 70 pts to an opposing team (beating Weber State 87-72 and losing to New Mexico 77-74), and Kentucky's 78 pts were the most scored against the Utes this season. The final rebounding margin (39-24 in favor of Utah) was the largest ever for a losing team in a national championship game. Kentucky's 15 of 17 FT shooting was the 5th highest percentage for a title game [JNB note - who, if anyone, would have thought UK would have done this well in the FT department? ]
The NCAA Final Four All-Tournament team consisted of MOP Jeff Sheppard, Scott Padgett, Michael Doleac of Utah, Andre Miller of Utah, and Arthur Lee of Stanford.
Kentucky set an NCAA Tournament record for blocks in a tournament, surpassing the old record of 37 held by UMASS!!! in 1995 (in 4 games). The Cats had 48 total blocks through 6 NCAA games (6 vs Utah, 7 vs Stanford, 1 vs Duke, 14 vs UCLA, 9 vs St Louis, and 11 vs SC State) .
Jeff Sheppard's 1091 career pts at Kentucky put him 36th on UK's all-time scoring list. Sheppard also had 288 career assists, good for 12th place on the UK all-time list (just behind Larry Conley).
Pictures from the Championship Game
Heshimu Evans flies in to defend
Jeff Sheppard eyes the basket
Allen Edwards tries to score against Utah's Michael Doleac
“I think right now everybody’s on notice,” Telep said. This is old school Kentucky right now, and the rest of the country has been served notice."-Dave Telep
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Re: UK's 7 NCAA Championship Teams « Reply #7 on Jul 14, 2008, 6:59pm »
A Fabulous First for Kentucky
Wallace Jones was clinch to play basketball at Kentucky. growing up, he and his friends used to make the drive all the way up Ivy Hill near his home in Harlan,Ky., to listen to the team's games on radio because the reception from the Louisville station was better up there. His high school basketball team played in the state tournament at Alumni Gym every year(and won in 1944). Jones had even met with coach Adolph Rupp to talk about how he would fit into the program.
And yet, if his girlfriend's father hadn't made a phone call alerting the Kentucky football coaches that Jones was on his back from a recruiting visit to Tennessee, the two-sport star might never have worn a Wildcats uniform. "They had a driver to take me to Lexington waiting at my house the next morning," recalls Jones, now 81 and living in Lexington. He would become the only athlete in Kentucky history to have both his basketball and football jerseys retired, and he played for two of the greatest(and toughest) SEC coaches of all time, Rupp and Paul (Bear) Bryant.
Jones became a starter at forward in January of the 1947-48 season, and the lineup that would soon be called the Fabulous Five was finally complete. There was Ken Rollin, a guard in his second year as a captain; junior Alex Groza, a center who had led the team in scoring the previous year; Cliff Barker, a 26-year-old forward who severed in the Army Air Corps and spent time as a prisoner or war; and Ralph Beard, a guard described in the Kentucky yearbook as "the perfect Wheaties ad, the All-American boy."
"We were a fast-pace team", said Jones, who earned the nickname Wah Wah because his younger sister hadn't been able to pronounce his name. A one-point loss at Temple and a 64-55 loss in front of a rowdy crowd at Norte Dame were the only blemishes on the Wildcats' record going into the NCAA tournament, held in New York City. The Fabulous Five first beat the Columbia Lions 76-53 to set up a meeting with Holy Cross, the '47 NCAA champions, in the semi's.
Thanks in part to an outstanding defensive effort from Rollins, who held future NBA great Bob Cousy to three points, the Wildcats beat the Crusaders 60-52 and went on to defeat Baylor 58-42 to win UK's first NCAA title.The team received a grand reception when it returned to Lexington: Thousands of fans lined Main Street cheering the national champions, who had only begun to build Kentucky's program.
Article by Elizabeth McGarr SI Kentucky Basketball 2007 Special Issue
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