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 ...

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 ...

(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, ...

March 23, 1948: Adolph Rupp's "Fabulous Five" wins UK's first NCAA championship, 58-42, over Baylor. The team is met in Lexington by 15,000 fans and given a parade.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adolph Rupp was synonymous with winning. ... Turn right and Memorial Coliseum is on right. From I-75 Southbound/I-64 Eastbound. Take Exit 113, turn right. Proceed downtown on North Broadway/U.S. 27/68 ...

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, ...