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The Fiddlin' Five: The 1958 team was given its nickname by Rupp due to his perception that they tended to "fiddle" early in games. However, they would right their ship in time to give Rupp his fourth and last national title.

  • Additional information: The Fiddlin' Five is a reference to a quote from Coach Rupp when he said his team was a bunch of great barnyard fiddlers facing a Carnegie Hall scehdule that would require classically trained violinists. His team was a case of hardwork over raw talent.

Also

The 1954-55 Undefeated Team, which went 25-0 in the regular season and defeated LSU in a playoff to earn the Southeastern Conference bid to the NCAA tournament. However, several of the team's players had technically graduated during the 1953-54 season (when Kentucky was banned from intercollegiate play due to a point shaving scandal) and were prohibited from tournament play. Despite the wishes of the players, Adolph Rupp refused to allow the team to play in the tournament, thus leading to the team being called one of the best teams to not win the national title.

  • The 52-53 season was the year that Kentucky was banned from play and the Undefeated season was 53-54.

The Football section has been relieved of inaccurate text relating a false urban myth about Bear Bryant receiving a cigarette lighter at a banquet at which Adolph Rupp received a Cadillac.

[edit] Article format

Take a look at the tables in Utah Utes for some ideas on how this article might be better formatted. If anyone else has other ideas for how to improve this article's structure, please share! Cmadler 21:36, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

The Utes article is a good example. I have been working on expanding the Florida Gators page for a while based on other schools' pages. This article—especially the basketball section—needs a clean-up badly. Instead of an encyclopedic entry with descriptions, citations and a general flow of history, it is mostly a laundry list of accomplishments and teams assembled. Besides a clean-up, I am amazed there is no Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball page yet. Come on, Kats, you're letting the Gators put more effort into their basketball team? :) WTStoffs 20:13, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Separation of Kentucky Wildcats and Kentucky Basketball

I agree that there should be a separate page for UK Basketball. Much like the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by WildManKY (talk • contribs) 21:20, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

I just created the Kentucky Wildcats basketball page, but it can use a lot of help from those that have the time to work on it. WildManKY 21:53, 9 September 2007 (UTC)