UK was never able to mount a Offence in the 75 title game. Yeah I wonder why? Cheating Wooden loving Refs is why.
78 championship
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So cool seeing Freddie Cowan and Lavon Williams again.
Youngsters look at Robey Phillips and Lee. They would make guys cry today. Hell they did then.
Gettelfinger, Courts and Stephens sightings.
Seen myself twice so far! Fun show!!
The winter of 78 made this team even more special. The winter of 77 as well. I would go out sledding all day and come home and listen to UK on the radio.
1958 to 78 was a pretty big drought. Only 4 final 4's in that period also, counting 78, which was the only championship.
Sam Gilbert's money had even more to do with us loosing than the refs. Without Gilbert's money, ucla woukd not have had half of the platers that they had on that team.
Lavon Williams could rattle your teeth with some of those high picks!
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They had a great 11 years and Wooden is a legend. For people that really know 11 years isn’t that long versus how long UK has been good. Just hate they have those titles
Wooden wouldn't have been **** without Gilbert's money. UCLA during that time was the biggest cheating program of all time.
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Wasn't that show a joy to watch. It brought back so many memories. The campus in my time, the players when they were young, the horrible winter of 1978, and those awful 70's clothes. That made me laugh. How thrilled we were when we won it all. Considering the dreadful season we just had , it was fun. Glad to see the tribute to Mike Phillips at the end.
That was just freaking great!! Allllll the feels.
Every player that was alive participated outside of Aleksinas. I wonder if he was asked and if so declined?
Outstanding!
Best team that I’ve witnessed at UK. Senior leadership, tough, confident, skilled, could play any style.
Shooters, multiple defenses, fearless classy guys, close, experienced and on and on.
Hope Cal watched it. Some lessons to be gained from it. He could learn some things and maybe get a few in state leaders on his next teams along with developing some experience.
Fans really care about those guys and they felt it.
Best team that I’ve witnessed at UK. Senior leadership, tough, confident, skilled, could play any style.
Shooters, multiple defenses, fearless classy guys, close, experienced and on and on.
Hope Cal watched it. Some lessons to be gained from it. He could learn some things and maybe get a few in state leaders on his next teams along with developing some experience.
Fans really care about those guys and they felt it.
We missed like a month straight of school that year and had to go on saturdays to make it up. Totally worth it
Thank God there was no social media back then. Can you imagine @JFCats22 losing his mind when Coach Hall pulled the starters against Fla. State?
So many memories. I shed a few tears.
Yes....I remember that welll
Yes, I was in the 4th grade and the FSU game happened while I was in school on a Saturday. When I got home dad said Hall benched some of the starters at halftime “to get their butts in gear”.
I was at the Alabama game in 2008 at Rupp Arena when they had a 30 year reunion for this team. This might be the most popular team for fans of any in Kentucky history. Rupp’s Runts may be close.
I recorded it and got that lovely "surprise" for the opening 10 mins. Does any women's sporting event end ahead of or on time?
I had that edition of SI. Kept it for years.
GBB!
Thinking back Aleksinas left the team mid season the next year. Don‘t think he and Joe B had a good relationship but you would think that could have been put aside after all these years.
I was there in K'ville for my first NCAA game attended in person.
It's called coaching.
Did you hear the players talk about the adjustments Coach Hall made against Florida State and against Michigan States zone defense to get open shots?
Those were in game adjustments to counter what the other coach had implemented to stop our normal offense.
How any coach can be so arrogant to think he doesn't have to make adjustments during a game and can simply out talent the other team blows my mind.
Especially during NCAA tournament.
This team was one of the best had good balance, a decent bench great guard play.
Yeah I really hope grudges aren't being held after all these years. I mean Chuck got decent amount of playing time for a Freshmen. We even heard from walkons last night.
Small thing I guess but I just noticed the entire roster participated. Loved they had Mike's wife and son say a few words.
That was the most keyed up I have been for any game. 96, 98 and 2012 were awesome wins but 78 will always be special for me.
My dad has dementia. I told my mom it was going to be on and to make sure he watched it. My phone rang last night a little after 10:00pm. It was like he was back on campus in the 70's. I loved watching it and he loved it even more. A couple random things:
1. Those unis are my favorite and loved when they brought them back in the 2000's.
2. Loved that center court logo in Memorial
3. That damn rubber floor at UT
1. Those unis are my favorite and loved when they brought them back in the 2000's.
2. Loved that center court logo in Memorial
3. That damn rubber floor at UT
They could play with any of the teams but I just think our 96' and 2012 teams where way too athletic for them. The teams we had trouble with, Alabama, LSU, were our both losses in the regular season. And in the NCAA tournament, we very easily could have lost to FSU, Michigan State and Arkansas. Those were probably the 5 most athletic teams we played that season.
The Super Kittens were Kevin Grevey, Jimmy Dan Conner, Mike Flynn, Bob Guyette and company who were SR's when that class were freshmen.
God Bless your dad.
I know it's been a while, I was a Senior in high school but he indeed was. If he had lost that game to FSU in the first round, the pressure would have been so great it would have probably been his last game. Especially losing the amount of talent he had that year.
You're right. My mistake. Thanks, my old brain fails me sometimes.