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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
'Cats and Cards hoops notes
The state of Kentucky trails only California among states with most NCAA
championships. California has 15 while Kentucky has nine.
The Louisville List
Louisville is undefeated when it scores a 100 points or more. They are
88-0.
The Cardinals scored a school-record 132 points against George Mason in
1994, posting a 132-87 win.
Louisville was held to a school-record three points by the Louisville
YMCA in 1912. The Cardinals suffered a 35-3 loss.
Louisville and Illinois State lit up the scoreboard for a school record
224 points in 1974. The Cardinals edged out a 117-107 victory.
Freedom Hall was named "Best floor to play on" by ESPN's College
Basketball magazine in 1995.
Did you know that Denny Crum is an avid reader and collector of Louis
L'Amour westerns?
Pervis "Never Nervous" Ellison holds the school record for dunks in a
game. He slammed it through seven times against South Alabama in 1988.
Louisville has had two players go in the first round of the NBA draft
twice -- in 1989 with Pervis Ellison (1st overall) and Kenny Payne
(19th) and in 1994 with Clifford Rozier (16th) and Greg Minor, 25th.
'Cats Capsule
Basketball at Kentucky reportedly started when W.W.H. Mustaine called
together some students, took up a collection totaling $3 for a ball and
told them to start playing. There was no official coach from 1903 until
1910. Managers ran the team.
The Wildcats have the unique distinction of having a tie on their
all-time record. In 1918, a game was ruled a tie after a scorer's error
was discovered after the game.
Kentucky longest home-winning streak is 129 games. It started in 1943
and ended in 1955. Since then, the longest home streak has been a mere
33 games from 1992 to 1994
The Wildcats have had just one losing record in 72 seasons. Kentucky
went 13-19 in 1989, its first losing mark in 61 seasons.
Kentucky had five players selected in the first rounds of the 1996 and
1997 NBA drafts. Antoine Walker (6th), Tony Delk (16th) and Walter
McCarty (19th) went in 1996 while Ron Mercer (6th) and Derek Anderson
(13th) were selected in 1997.
In 1990, Wildcat coach Rick Pitino made history by naming Bernadette
Locke, an assistant for the University of Georgia Lady Bulldogs
basketball team, to his coaching staff.
In 1903, the Wildcats scored only 19 points in a three-game season.
Incredibly, they had a record of 1-2.
Long-time Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp is second on the all-time win list
with 876. Only North Carolina's Dean Smith has more victories with 879.
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