When Rupp Arena opened on Oct. 17, 1976, it was considered to be the largest facility for basketball in the country, outside ...

The college basketball landscape in the 1950s was dominated by the Baron of the Bluegrass, Adolph Rupp, who led Kentucky to the last two of his four national championships while putting the finishing ...

Winning matters. More than anything, actually. It's why you play the games. To see who wins. And USC won Saturday. It was a rite of passage for kids in Kentucky – you listened to Kentucky basketball ...

The faculty of the University of Kentucky's African American and Africana Studies program has asked UK president Eli Capilouto to change the name of Rupp Arena because the legendary basketball coach's ...

According to a 1996 Sports Illustrated article, then vice-presidential candidate Ed Muskie scheduled to present a speech at Memorial Coliseum, in Lexington, Kentucky in 1968. After hearing from the ...

The man in the brown suit tugged nervously at his socks, squirmed on his chair, periodically leaped up to loose a volley of abuse at a panting Kentucky player. Out on the floor of Louisville’s Freedom ...

The University of Kentucky has its own special brand of Southern hospitality. When visiting basketball squads arrive in Lexington, they get full red-carpet treatment (which often includes a tour of ...

The history of Kentucky basketball cannot be told without mentioning the contributions of some legendary players from eastern Kentucky. One of those legends, John Pelphrey, returns to Rupp Arena on ...

MONROE – In 1860, Adolph Rupp owned and operated a furniture store in downtown Monroe before going into the mortuary business. “I was told the furniture store also made coffins,” Polly Rupp said. “The ...