Mears rolled into town in the spring of 1962, a few months past his 35th birthday, fresh off a national championship a year earlier at Wittenberg (Ohio) College. He brought a sackful of gimmicks and a ...

Hawk. Jet. AP. JJ. Squeaky. When it comes to Bradley basketball's Mount Rushmore, there are many names to consider. The ...

Saturday and Sunday’s camp sessions are taking place inside the Joe Craft Center and Historic Memorial Coliseum on Kentucky’s campus. On June 20, Pope will host a free camp at North Laurel ...

Scheduled to play at Memorial Coliseum, Basketball Hall of Fame coach Adolph Rupp refused to let Walker play in the game. “You can’t bring that boy down here to Lexington,” the story recounts, per a ...

Before he officially stepped foot on campus, McGuire informed Walker and his parents that the Redmen would travel to Kentucky to play Adolph Rupp’s Wildcats. Walker, who grew up in the south before ...

The Kentucky Men’s Basketball team played in the arena from 1950-1976. A historical marker honoring legendary Head Coach Adolph Rupp – who led the Wildcats in Historic Memorial Coliseum from its ...

UK’s historic Memorial Coliseum (Photo provided) 44 years ago, December of 1981 left a solid memory for me as I attended my very first game at Rupp.

In this special episode of WUKY's Saving Stories, UK Nunn Center director Dr. Doug Boyd and Deirdre Scaggs, associate dean and head of Special Collections, join Alan Lytle to re-live one of the most ...

Adolph Rupp’s Wildcats won their first three games by double digits before edging Bob Pettit and LSU 44-43 in the championship game, but faltered in the NCAA tournament regionals.

Mullins became the UK rifle head coach in 1987, and he’s only the second coach in UK history to win four national championships during their time at the school (Adolph Rupp in men’s basketball ...

Actually, Rupp admits, the length of the holiday wasn’t entirely his idea: the floor at Kentucky’s Memorial Coliseum was being refinished. “But there’s no question about it,” he says ...