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Yahoo Sports is at it again...

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball ... ion_030512

what was up with the Nolan nude painting? How the eff did they get that footage?

Western Carolina Davidson game is what March is all about

VCU-VCU-VCU-VCU-VCU-VCU-VCU!!!!!

Shaka! Do you have it in you for another tourney run? Gambling minds want to know?

Kentucky Basketball Cumulative All Time Statistics (aka: "The List")

All Time Wins: 2082 (NCAA rank #1)
All Time Winning Percentage: .763 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Championships: 7 (NCAA rank #2)
NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 10 (NCAA rank #2)
NCAA Final Four Appearances: 14 (NCAA rank #4)
NCAA Final Four Wins: 17 (NCAA rank #2)
NCAA Elite-8 Appearances: 33 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Sweet-16 Appearances: 42 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 51 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Wins: 105 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Games Played: 151 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Winning Percentage: .695 (NCAA rank #5)
Total Postseason Tournament Appearances (NCAA and NIT): 59 (NCAA rank #1)
NBA Draft Picks: 100 (NCAA rank #1)
All-Americans: 53 (NCAA rank #1)
All-American Total Selections: 83 (NCAA rank #1)
First Team Consensus All-Americans: 18 (NCAA rank #2)
First Team Consensus All-American Total Selections: 23 (NCAA rank #4)
AP Poll Top-20/25 Weeks Ranked All Time: 782 (NCAA rank #2)
AP Poll Top-10 Weeks Ranked All Time: 623 (NCAA rank #1)
AP Poll Top-5 Weeks Ranked All Time: 414 (NCAA rank #1)
AP Poll #1 Weeks Ranked All Time: 98 (NCAA rank #4)
Final AP Poll Top-25 Finishes: 47 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-20 Finishes: 47 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-15 Finishes: 42 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-10 Finishes: 39 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-5 Finishes: 27 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll #1 Finishes: 8 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-25 Finishes: 45 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-20 Finishes: 44 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-15 Finishes: 41 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-10 Finishes: 37 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-5 Finishes: 28 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll #1 Finishes: 7 (NCAA rank #1)
20-Win Seasons: 56 (NCAA rank #1)
25-Win Seasons: 31 (NCAA rank #2)
30-Win Seasons: 13 (NCAA rank #1)
35-Win Seasons: 4 (NCAA rank #1)
Average Victories Per Season Played: 19.100917 (NCAA rank #3)
Average Losses Per Season Played: 5.94495412844 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Winning Seasons: 92 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Non-Losing Seasons (.500 or better): 95 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Coaches With a NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 4 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Coaches With a Final Four Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades With a NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank #3)
Total Decades With a Final Four Appearance: 7 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Coaches With a NCAA Championship: 4 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With a NCAA Championship: 4 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades #1 in Total Wins (since 1930): 1 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades Top-5 in Total Wins (since 1930): 4 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades Top-10 in Total Wins (since 1930): 7 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades #1 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 2 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades Top-5 in Winning Percentage (since 1930)): 6 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades Top-10 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 7 (NCAA rank #1)
Conference Regular Season Championships: 47 (NCAA rank #2)
Conference Tournament Championships: 28 (NCAA rank #1)
National Attendance Titles: 24 (NCAA rank #1)

(Of the 57 major categories listed above, Kentucky is #1 in 39 of them, #2 in 12 of them, #3 in 2 of them, #4 in 3 of them, and #5 in 1 of them.)

Kentucky can also lay claim to several individual achievements for both players and coaches:

13 players winning NBA Championships a total of 18 times
10 players named NBA All-Star a total of 17 times
11 Olympic Gold Medal winners
8 Naismith Hall-of-Fame members
4 players named National Player-of-the Year
6 head coaches named National Coach-of-the-Year a total of 12 times
130 players named All-Conference a total of 220 times
75 players named All-Conference Tournament a total of 111 times
11 players named Conference Player-of-the-Year a total of 13 times
14 players named Conference Tournament MVP a total of 15 times
15 players named All-NCAA Final Four a total of 18 times
45 players named All-NCAA Regional a total of 59 times
10 players named NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Player a total of 11 times
4 players named NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player a total of 5 times
72 players who played in the NBA at least one season
58 1000-point scorers
42 players named McDonald's All-American

Kentucky also holds several other NCAA records and various additional accomplishments:

Kentucky has 2 NIT Titles (1946, 1976), 2 Helms Titles (1933, 1954), 2 undefeated seasons (1912, 1954), and 5 Sugar Bowl Tournament Championships (1937, 1939, 1949, 1956, 1963).

Kentucky holds the NCAA record for Consecutive Non-Losing Seasons (60), and for Consecutive Home Court Victories (129).

Kentucky plays in the nation's largest basketball arena (Rupp Arena, capacity: 23,500), and has both the nation's largest radio and television affiliate networks.

Kentucky has made a 3-point basket in 819 consecutive games (3rd-most all time), and is the only school to have multiple NCAA (7) and NIT (2) Championships.

Kentucky has played before the largest regulation basketball game crowd in history (79,129), and the largest Final Four crowd in history (75,421).

Kentucky was the first school (in 2010) to have 5 players selected in the 1st-Round of the NBA Draft, and was also the first school to reach both the 1000-win and 2000-win victory plateaus.

Charlie Coles . Miami of Ohio coach at his final press conference

"People ask me how I can go out with a losing record, well I'll tell ya..after this press conference, I'm gonna get up, turn right, walk out that door and you ain't gonna see me again, that's how"

Dude was a character.

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I just liked the title of this one...

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Phil Ford and Joe B. Hall, going into college HOF together

are you still a journalist, stu?

I hope Phil reminds Joe B. that even without (elbow injury), the Heels sent him packing back to Lexington in the '77 Eastern Regional Finals.

The Anti k* wrote:I hope Phil reminds Joe B. that even without (elbow injury), the Heels sent him packing back to Lexington in the '77 Eastern Regional Finals.

Sorry 4 corners does not count. Without that fuckin' 4 corners we would have blown them off the court in the 2nd half. They had to cheat to win.

Anthony Davis has gone home and may miss the SEC tournement. Death in the family. I have no other details.

Gator by God's Grace wrote:are you still a journalist, stu?

yes and fucking award-winning journalist for the 2nd straight year

Wait, who are you fucking?

Nancy Grace

Fifer wrote:Anthony Davis has gone home and may miss the SEC tournement. Death in the family. I have no other details.

That would actually be a great opportunity for the team. To learn to play without Davis, give Cal a built in excuse to lose the SEC tourney which he has clearly said he doesn't want to play in anyways and would have no bearing whatsoever on our seeding.

well if you guys are going to lose the SEC tourney, please feel free to lose to us on saturday. (assuming we can manage to beat alabama on Friday, which is far from a certainty).

Gator by God's Grace wrote:well if you guys are going to lose the SEC tourney, please feel free to lose to us on saturday. (assuming we can manage to beat alabama on Friday, which is far from a certainty).

I'd like to know how well the team can play without Davis.