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Wayne Turner was named tournament MVP.Kentucky defeated Georgia, 95-68, to win the championship game.

Gerald Fitch was named tournament MVP.Kentucky defeated Mississippi State, 64-57, to win the championship game. He didn’t make a basket until 5:12 left, and he finished with six points.But Davis pulled down 16 rebounds, giving him 30 in the Final Four, which was the most since Hakeem Olajuwon grabbed 40 in 1983.

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A three-pointer by Taylor, which snapped personal streaks of 0-for-19 in domes and 0-for-23 in the NCAA Tournament, seemed inconsequential.But Taylor’s old-fashioned three-point play on a fast-break drive heightened tension. 1 recruiting class, featuring a record six In 2013–14, Kentucky looked to make up for its struggles in the previous season. UK was also crowned an NCAA co-champion, after knocking off #1 Oklahoma in the 1951 Sugar Bowl to win the 1950 National Championship in college football.

Heading into the post-season, No. Click below to read all of the previously published stories in the series. At the time, this was the Coach Hall is one of only three men to both play on an NCAA championship team (1949– Kentucky) and coach an NCAA championship team (1978– Kentucky), and the only one to do so for the same school. Rupp's Wildcat teams won 4 One of Rupp's early successful teams, he would give the '44 team the nickname "the Beardless Wonders" and "Wildkittens" because according to Rupp, "It was like running a Kindergarten." But the Cats showed again they could make clutch plays.

Beginning with the 1992 season, Kentucky was free of post season bans. One season earlier, Villanova joined an exclusive club as the Wildcats became just the eighth school to win at least three men's basketball national championships.

8 in 1 of them.) Knight, Jones and company would exact their revenge in the second round against West Virginia, who knocked off Kentucky in the 2010 tourney. Hall in 1978, Eddie Sutton in 1986, Rick Pitino in 1990 and 1992, Tubby Smith in 1998, 2003, and 2005, and John Calipari in 2012 and 2015.

Baskets by Doron Lamb and Kidd-Gilchrist gave Kentucky its 18-point margins.Kansas suffered when Robinson made two of his first 10 shots, often missing badly. (Photo by Matthew Maxey/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) 1 seed Ohio State Buckeyes and No.

1 overall NBA draft pick Anthony Davis as the Wildcats won a record 38 games en route to the championship, losing only on a buzzer-beater in the regular season to Indiana, and in the SEC championship game to Vanderbilt.Kentucky's sixth title, in 1996, may have been its best team.

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The Gators went on to also win back-to-back national champion title’s that year. Jerry Tipton has covered Kentucky basketball beginning with the 1981-82 season to the present. Mauer left the Wildcats to coach the Rupp coached the University of Kentucky men's basketball team from 1930 to 1972.

Coming off a successful but titleless 1950 season, the Wildcats continued their dominance into the new decade. ©2020 FOX News Network, LLC.

As a result, the Wildcats were handed the first de facto "death penalty" from the NCAA and were forced to sit out the entire 1952 season.Kentucky brought home the title for the first time in Kentucky's eight national championships are the second-most all time in men's basketball, trailing only https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/sporting_news/58/cc/john-calipari-041619-getty-ftrjpg_1rty21pzo64ox1cjvkkvzpivb5.jpg?t=-2015200791&w=500&quality=80 The team is also known for playing in what could be considered one of the greatest games in NCAA tournament history against Duke. Referred to as "The Untouchables" because the roster had nine future NBA players led by Antoine Walker, the Wildcats only lost two games all season. The Fab Five would succeed again winning 46–36 and Kentucky's only back-to-back NCAA championship. All did not look well after the Wildcats lost their first game by 11 to Saint John's at home, but they would pull it together for the Sugar Bowl Tournament, which they won, beating NCAA runner-up Bradley. No doubt, the Jayhawks hoped the muscle would work on UK’s nerves.“We’re not just a talented team,” Calipari said.