Rupp, whose Kentucky team regularly qualified ... “They wanted Kentucky to be the first to integrate the SEC. They said if Adolph did it, everybody would,” Beard told the Atlanta Journal ...

For the longest time, one man ruled as Kentucky's basketball coach: Adolph Rupp. He was everything Wildcat hoops and helped shape the program's prestige and, really, college basketball.

That puts Mark Pope in some very good company. With the 106-100 victory, Pope joins Adolph Rupp as the only Kentucky coach to win his first three games vs. top-ten teams. The Cats beat No. 6 Duke ...

Mark Pope, Kentucky add Alvin Brooks III to staff Kentucky head coach Mark ... George Atkins, a Wildcat who played for Adolph Rupp, passed away a few days ago at the age of 82.

After all, Rupp Arena is the home of a Kentucky program that has won a whopping eight national championships since 1948, when legendary coach Adolph Rupp himself led the Wildcats to a 36-3 season ...