If you could pick one basketball season KY could have won it all which would it be?

[dontucker]

Edwards didnt play. He was at home attending a funeral. Huge reason we lost.

Edwards played 6 minutes in that game.

 

[gbl97]

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Sounded good didn't it, ole don tucker

 

[FactsOrOpinions]

That was 2015.

Thought it was 14-15 not 15-16

 

[BlueSince92]

The ref's need a mention whenever talking about that game. Arizona went over ten minutes without a field goal at the end of that game but the ref's still put them on the line enough to steal a championship from UK.

True

 

[Bleedin Blue in Ohio]

1984. I really thought all season long that UK was the best team in the country.

 

[Cowtown Cat]

'97

It would take the tiniest nudge. You don't take the champion to overtime with your best player on the bench all game if you couldn't have buried that "champion" with him able to play.

Also there's at least some chance Pitino would have decided to stick around after back-to-back titles.

Bingo. Also, let’s not forget the FT stat of: UK - 9-17, AZ - 34-41. Just an incredible, eye popping stat. Unreal.

 

[Cowtown Cat]

The ref's need a mention whenever talking about that game. Arizona went over ten minutes without a field goal at the end of that game but the ref's still put them on the line enough to steal a championship from UK.

This. AZ also scored ALL TEN of their OT points from……the FT line. Lmao rigged.

 

[catfanlou]

1966 for me . I dated in the same sorority house as Kron and Danpier . Knew them well and it really really hurt for months after that lose
damn flue .

 

[Goingfor9]

It took way too long until someone said 2015. I mean if we want to title in 2015 or 40-0. Recruiting Probably never drops off cal probably stays hungry. But back to recruiting the most important I mean cal would’ve had his pick up players for four or five years. Losing that season in the final four set the stage for cals exit. He never seemed hungry again after after that.. even the 2017 team was missing a major component at the power forward position. And if we had won it all in 2015 cal would’ve had a stacked class in 2017. 2018. 2019. Since then, since that loss, we haven’t been back to the final four and to be honest I feel like a lot of of our fans love the ride, but we took it so high that not winning at all was painful. I think we realize we want titles no matter what. UK isn’t a laboratory to try and go undefeated. NCAA basketball especially now as demanding as it’s become physically winning your entire season winning your conference tournament and winning the NCAA tournament you you have to be some kind of seriously dominant Deep team. ThAt 2015 team almost did it I don’t see another team like that coming down the pipe in the NCAA with all this NIL I mean that roster will probably cost $50 million today.

 

[Jtf2217]

97 team I was pretty young (like 6 ) but I remember watching bits and pieces would be cool to have the 3 peat for history.
However the answer here is 2015 undefeated

 

[*Fox2Monk*]

Mine would be the 96-97 season. That's when my UK fandom was at its peak and it would have been a 3-peat which is super rare in sports. If Derek Anderson wasn't injured I think we would have beat Arizona in the Final.

2015 easy.

 

[DelkBowl]

2015 for the undefeated season

 

[Indyadolph]

2015 - Undefeated. And the last team to do it, NOT Indiana as someone mentioned before me.
1966 - For obvious reasons.
1975 - Dang. One more for the Cats, one less for UCLA.
1984

And here's a rare one.....
1977 - Lost to UNC in the Elite 8. I see no one in that year's Final Four that could have beaten the Cats. And of course, we know what happened the next year!!!

 

[Son_Of_Saul]

I think there is only one rational answer to this question: 1975.

Kentucky adds a title, UCLA loses one. The Cats are that much closer to the only major achievement held by another program: most NCAA titles. It also would have capped my favorite tournament of all time, and brought greater meaning to the greatest Kentucky win of my lifetime, over Indiana in the Elite 8.

On a purely emotional basis, probably 2015. My son was the perfect age to have celebrated another title with. And that 40-0 perfect season would have probably stood forever as the greatest single season in the sport.

But since the challenge is to pick one, I'll stick with 1975

This is the correct answer. It would bring us to 9 and drop UCLA to 10.

 

[Ford to Mashburn]

1966 Runts--no mention of tex western

rr

They never mentioned all white Duke team we beat to get there either.

 

[UKWildcats1987]

2015. 40 and 0. Takes a title from Duke.

2015 would be more memorable nationally to analysts and casual fans and future recruits as well than some of the other choices.

 

[Rockford]

1975, 2015, also Wall's team.

Mine

1984 Bowie Turpin and a freshman Skywalker.... had beat runner up Houston in regular season

Totally freak game knocked them out in FF

 

[SenseMaker_Cats]

This is the correct answer. It would bring us to 9 and drop UCLA to 10.

I believe the ‘95 team would have kept them from their last on if they’d gotten by UNC.

 

[dontucker]

Sounded good didn't it, ole don tucker

Website quirky as hell.

 

[Cowtown Cat]

I believe the ‘95 team would have kept them from their last on if they’d gotten by UNC.

Yep! Had UCLA beat that season in the Wooden Classic, basically a road game. Got an absolutely HORRIBLE foul call under a second to go. Man I was LIVID!

 

[FurdTurgason]

2015. Just watched the first half of the UCLA game that year and no one in college basketball since has come close to that team.

 

[Vek96]

Oh boy. That’s a tough question. I’ll lean to 1992

 

[CatBearPig]

The answer is 2015. However, my personal choice would have been 2003. My last year at UK and that team was a lot of fun.

 

[Trinity45]

Mine would be the 96-97 season. That's when my UK fandom was at its peak and it would have been a 3-peat which is super rare in sports. If Derek Anderson wasn't injured I think we would have beat Arizona in the Final.

1984

 

[SWFLwildcat06]

My five in order

2015(40-0)


1997( could have had the 3 peat)
1975 ( Wooden/UCLA
1966( TX Western and all that )
1993 (Mash)

 

[Snarks]

2015, pretty simple. Otherwise 2010, I loved that team and would have been awesome to get a title in Cals first year

 

[FLBBNFAN]

2014 no doubt without hesitation. 40-0. Probably will never be done. There were so many games we should have lost even that season but pulled them out.

Plus if we win that one then Calapari probably doesn't get broken. He would have went 40-0 keeping the legendary momentum going instead of the fall off. More than likely leading to a couple more titles because he would have kept getting the best.

That changes history the most imo.

2014 for me as well. I know others may disagree but I always felt that year broke Cal. He never seemed to recover his swag.