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U N PA R A L L E L E D T R A D I T I O N<br />
ALL-TIME<br />
WILDCAT COACHES<br />
C O A C H I N G S U M M A R Y<br />
Years Name Tenure Record Pct.<br />
1903-09 W.W.H. Musta<strong>in</strong>e and Others 7 21-35 .375<br />
1910 E.R. Sweetland & R.E. Spahr 1 4-8 .333<br />
1911 H.J. Idd<strong>in</strong>gs 1 5-6 .454<br />
1912 E.R. Sweetland 1 9-0 1.000<br />
1913 J.J. Tigert 1 5-3 .625<br />
1914-15 Alpha Brumage 2 19-7 .731<br />
1916 J.J. Tigert (James Fark) 1 8-6 .571<br />
1917 J .J. Tigert (W.P. Tuttle) 1 4-6 .400<br />
1918 S.A. Boles 1 •9-2-1 .792<br />
1919 Andrew Gill 1 6-8 .428<br />
1920-24 George Buchheit 5 44-27 .619<br />
1925 C.O. Applegran 1 13-8 .619<br />
1926 Ray Eklund 1 15-3 .833<br />
1927 Basil Hayden 1 3-13 .187<br />
1929-30 John Mauer 3 40-14 .740<br />
1931-72 Adolph Rupp +42 876-190 .822<br />
1973-85 Joe B. Hall 13 297-100 .748<br />
1986-89 Eddie Sutton 4 # 88-39 .693<br />
1990-97 Rick Pit<strong>in</strong>o 8 219-50 .814<br />
1998-07 Orlando “Tubby” Smith 10 263-83 .760<br />
2008- Billy Gillispie 1 18-13 .581<br />
Adolph Rupp poses with All-American<br />
Cotton Nash.<br />
Rick Pit<strong>in</strong>o helped restore <strong>Kentucky</strong> as a<br />
national powerhouse <strong>in</strong> the 1990s.<br />
20 Coaches In 104 Seasons<br />
Games Won—1966, Lost—621, Tied—1<br />
• Unique tie game resulted from scorer’s error discovered after game.<br />
+ No schedule played <strong>in</strong> 1953 — Rupp’s record for 41 seasons. Five w<strong>in</strong>s <strong>in</strong> 1966<br />
International Universities Tournament <strong>in</strong> Israel not <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong> team totals.<br />
« Basketball at UK reportedly started when W.W.H. Musta<strong>in</strong>e called together<br />
some students, took up a collection total<strong>in</strong>g $3 for a ball and told them to<br />
start play<strong>in</strong>g. There was no <strong>of</strong>ficial coach from 1903 until 1910. Managers ran<br />
the team.<br />
# Three games from 1988 NCAA Tournament vacated by decree <strong>of</strong> NCAA.<br />
Tubby Smith led UK to<br />
the NCAA title with a<br />
35-4 record <strong>in</strong> 1998.<br />
Succeed<strong>in</strong>g the ledendary Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall (left) won 297 games, an NIT title and an NCAA<br />
title. Eddie Sutton (middle) coached UK from 1986-89, w<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g more than 69% <strong>of</strong> his games. His best<br />
team was his first, which f<strong>in</strong>ished 32-4. Billy Gillispie (right) is greeted by Wildcat fans after be<strong>in</strong>g<br />
<strong>in</strong>troduced as just the sixth UK head coach <strong>in</strong> the last 77 years.<br />
K E N T U C K Y<br />
B A S K E T B A L L<br />
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