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1950–51 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team

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Conference
  
Southeast Conference

AP
  
No. 1

Head coach
  
Adolph Rupp

Coaches
  
No. 1

1950–51 record
  
32–2 (14–0 SEC)

Assistant coach
  
Harry Lancaster

The 1950–51 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented University of Kentucky. The Head Coach was Adolph Rupp. The team was a member of the Southeast Conference and played their home games at Memorial Coliseum. Two members of this team eventually returned to Kentucky as Athletic Director: Cliff Hagan from 1975 to 1988, and Charles Newton from 1989 to 2000.

Contents

NCAA basketball tournament

  • Mideast
  • Kentucky 79, Louisville 68
  • Kentucky 59, St. John's, New York 43
  • Final Four
  • Kentucky 76, Illinois 74
  • Kentucky 68, Kansas State 58

    • Awards and honors

  • Bill Spivey, NCAA Men's MOP Award

    • Team players drafted into the NBA

  • No one from the Wildcats men's team was selected in the 1951 NBA Draft.

    • References

    1950–51 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team Wikipedia
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