Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp is greeted by Alabama coach and former Wildcats player C.M. Newton before their game in Memorial Coliseum on Feb. 22, 1971.

Women’s Basketball at Memorial Coliseum. ... and 16 Southeastern Conference titles while playing in the facility under the direction of legendary coaches Adolph Rupp and Joe B. Hall. When the Wildcats ...

The arena where Adolph Rupp coached for Kentucky basketball has been rebranded as Historic ... (Memorial Coliseum was originally dedicated to the more than 10,000 Kentuckians who died in ...

Over a year in the works, Memorial Coliseum has undergone a complete transformation. For the last 70 years, the gym has served the University of Kentucky well. On Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, the ...

Admirers of longtime coach Adolph Rupp said he tried to recruit Black ... The university’s board, fearful it would not be able to fill Memorial Coliseum if it didn’t play traditional SEC ...

My father was a college student at the University of Kentucky when Memorial Coliseum opened in 1950. Skeptics said the 11,000-seat on campus facility was too big to be filled, he said. The ...

– The Kentucky community is invited to the Grand Re-Opening of Historic Memorial Coliseum on the University of Kentucky campus Saturday, April 26. An outdoor community event, presented by Kroger, will ...

In 1950, Chip’s father, Adolph “Herky” Rupp Jr., made the first ceremonial basket at Kentucky’s Memorial Coliseum. And 26 years later, Coach Rupp wanted his grandson to do the same in the ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- On a December Saturday in 1964, 20-year-old Jim Boeheim took to the Memorial Coliseum floor in Lexington, Ky., glanced at the crusty legend over there on the home club’s bench ...

According to a 1996 Sports Illustrated article, then vice-presidential candidate Ed Muskie scheduled to present a speech at Memorial Coliseum, in Lexington, Kentucky in 1968. After hearing from the ...

Memorial Coliseum was set to be the host venue for the 2020 edition of the NCAA rifle national championships, ... (Adolph Rupp in men’s basketball). Last summer, ...

(Memorial Coliseum was originally dedicated to the more than 10,000 Kentuckians who died in World War II and the Korean War.) ... “Going back to the days of Adolph Rupp, ...