The coach couldn’t have imagined a much better start to his tenure as he has now done something that no Kentucky coach since Adolph Rupp has. Pope is the first Kentucky coach since Rupp to start ...

6 Florida. That puts Mark Pope in some very good company. With the 106-100 victory, Pope joins Adolph Rupp as the only Kentucky coach to win his first three games vs. top-ten teams. The Cats beat No.

Leading scorer and rebounder James Fieser fouled out. Without these two stalwarts in the lineup, the Liberal Redskins dropped their last game of the Adolph Rupp Invitational in Halstead to the Garden ...

The Haven Wildcats threw their vaunted 1-3-1 zone at the Liberal Redskins Tuesday night at the 55th Adolph Rupp Tournament in Halstead. Liberal’s Redskins committed 32 turnovers against that defense ...

So did Joe B. Hall, successor to Adolph Rupp (four titles after playing for basketball inventor James Naismith at Kansas) and Tubby Smith. That's just the way of the world in the Commonwealth of ...

5. Mark Pope’s first home loss. With Kentucky’s defeat, the Wildcats are now 11-1 at Rupp Arena in the UK coach’s debut season. Starting with Adolph Rupp in 1930, Pope’s streak of 11 home ...

Coach Don Haskins' underdog team started five black players against Adolph Rupp's all-white Kentucky squad. The outcome of the game proved to be an important moment in the civil rights movement of ...

Guiding Kentucky's program for 15 seasons — the second longest for any coach aside from Adolph Rupp's four-decade run — before disembarking for Arkansas last year, Calipari enjoyed immense ...

Calipari departed as 1 of 2 coaches in Kentucky history with more than 400 victories at the program — the other being Adolph Rupp. As for the game itself, Kentucky is likely to be a big favorite ...