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    On This Day In 1989, Kentucky Hired Rick Pitino.

    I remember the day C.M. signed Pitino as HC of the cats. I was stationed in Atlanta and I learned the news from my neighbor who was a head bb coach of an Atlanta private high school. He came rushing over to my house raving about the Pitino hire and telling me Ky just hired the best young...
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    Larry Conley status

    Thank you for the information on Earl. I was sorry to learn of his passing. I thought he was one of the most underutilized players during Rupp's Era. A retired Army Special Forces full Colonel, Harold Fraley, who I served with for several years and was also a Sandy Hook, Ky native was...
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    Larry Conley status

    One of my favorite players from Ashland was a 6'4" guard, Earl "Brother" Adkins, who played at UK in the late 50's. I remember when either Hatton or Odie Smith was out a game, Earl started and scored 20 some points. Reportedly, he was in Rupp's dog house because he was married and Rupp didn't...
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    Larry Conley status

    Rip, Was Doug Cundiff on that 55 Breathitt County Team? My hometown team, Sandy Hook, had some barn burners with Breathitt Co during the mid 50's. Cubdiff played for Morehead state for a year or two. Sandy Hook had all 5 of their starters on the 58 team receive college scholarship offers...
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    RIP Ray Mills 1957 kentucky team

    I remember Ray Mills starting at forward in the first couple of games of UK's 1956-57 season. The other starting forward was Johnny Cox, the all-american from Hazard. As I recall, Mills was not having a good shooting game and Rupp substituted John Crigler for Mills. Crigler immediately hit 2...
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    Pope on Perry's departure

    Very "classy" post from a first class coach and person! I am a huge Travis Perry and Coach Pope fan and was very disappointed that he transferred because I believe under Pope's tutelage coupled with Travis's work ethic and intelligence he would have developed into an outstanding college...
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    Pope on Perry's departure

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    Was Travis Perry the Victim of His own Hardearned Success

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    Most intimidating player atUK?

    James Lee decked the all SEC forward, Hooker, from MIss St who was bullying Truman Claytor during a 77-78 season game. Charles Hurt pushed Charles Barkley to the floor during a game with Auburn in the 82-83 season. Barkley picked himself up and started chasing Hurt who outran him. Hurt was...
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    Aaron Craft graduating medical school

    My daughter who is a dentist in Brunswick, Ga has referred patients for years to Dr Cliff Berger, DDS 6'8" center on Rupp's Runts team of 1966. Cliff is a oral surgeon or other specialist to whom general dentist refer patients. She set up a lunch meeting with Cliff that I was scheduled to...
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    Best KHSAA Center to Sign with UK?

    Yep! Harry Todd, 6' 9" center who played in the mid 50's in the western part of the state ( Etherington HS ?). He started for Western Ky for 3 years and played in the NBA with the Hawks. He held several national HS records for several years. He wanted to go to UK but Rupp unintentionally...
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    Malachi Moreno commits to UK!

    Great day for Coach Pope and the cats! I thought someone was going to have to choke his HS coach off the microphone!
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    Corbin native, Frank Selvy passes

    Fred Fraley from the Allen/ Pikeville area played point guard at Furman with Selvy.
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    Corbin native, Frank Selvy passes

    Thanks for posting this article Jon. I always enjoy your post and I am very appreciative of the time and effort you devote to giving us "the rest of the story" particularly about Coach Rupp! Keep it coming!
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    This guy is high on Pope's Cats

    I saw it on a You Tube video of one of the BYU vs Houston games. During the post game interview of Sampson he talked about how difficult it was to prepare for Pope's teams and the difficulty of defending them. The West Virginia coach that replaced Huggins said essentially the same thing in his...
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