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Kentucky is the all-time NCAA leader in wins

Kentucky is the #2 all-time NCAA leader in National Titles with 7

Kentucky is the all-time NCAA leader in conference titles with 43

"Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion." - Dick Vitale on Kentucky fans, December 23, 1999.

"Apparently the University of Kentucky basketball dynasty is to continue forever." - Philadelphia Inquirer, December 23 1954.

"Turner ... Burner .... and one" - Jim Nantz

"Kentucky has found the secret of basketball, that it's five guys playing together." - former University North Carolina coach Frank McGuire

"I see no reason to end the basketball season in February just so some of these schools can start spring football practice early... Someday they are going to wake up and realize that basketball is here to stay." - Adolph Rupp on his Southeastern Conference brethren in 1934.

"I'd just as soon freeze to death." - Actress Ashley Judd relating a story of being offered a University North Carolina - Chapel Hill jacket on a chilly movie set. - Lexington Herald Leader, August 15, 1996.

"It's not wise to come to Kentucky and try to run them off their court. Not too many teams have ever done that." - Mississippi State Coach Babe McCarthy in 1962.

"When you see Kentucky's fans, you just wonder. You think how wonderful it would be to go to their school. You wish you could trade places for a day, just so you could experience that feeling." - UCLA player Kris Johnson

"They had it before you, they had it during you, they'll have it when you're gone"...." - Al McGuire on Kentucky Basketball Tradition

"In the next four or five years, Kentucky will be at its best. It has taken a lot of hard labor, but down the road we will be at our best." - Rick Pitino in 1995

Kentucky Wildcats 2008 recruits

DeAndre Liggins

*****

6'5" 190 lbs PG

Darius Miller

****

6'6" 215 lbs SF

Kevin Galloway

***

6'6" 210 lbs PG

Josh Harrellson

***

6'9" 265 lbs PF

Kentucky Greats; Greatest Team (1950’s)

Posted on May 12, 2008 by ibleedblue040

From two fridays ago until today we have had the voting for the four best UK teams of the 1940’s and now the voting has closed. The top four vote getters were the 1945 team, 1946 team, 1948 team, and the 1949 team. Those four teams will be added to the bracket and now you [...]

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Kentucky Greats; Greatest Team

Posted on May 2, 2008 by ibleedblue040

Today I will be starting another series under the Kentucky Greats name. We have already determined the best player in UK history now we will find the best TEAM that we have ever had. But this time instead of me just listing the best teams in my opinion I will have a bracket style competition.
*The [...]

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