I’ll go with Tubby playing “Chicken” with Coach Rodent, and Coach Rodent swerving off the road and into the ditch.
Most impressive single game coaching performance in UK modern history
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Pitino losing to Duke is the best coaching performance I’ve ever seen. Hall beating IU is probably second. Tubby coming back against 98 Duke is up there. Cal against Ohio State was probably his best coaching performance but I don’t know about all time.
If Cal coached half as competently as he did against UofL every game he would still be here.
I didn't get a chance to watch Joe B. coach but the rest of this I second. Most of Pitino's games against Indiana were incredibly well coached too, frankly on both sides. I think it was really Rick's consistent outmaneuvering of Bobby Knight that shows best what he could have been if he had stayed put in Camelot.
I didn’t see Hall coach either but I’ve watched some old games. I say that because of how dominate Indiana was and Bob Knight was the best coach in the nation around then.
Dakich said the year Indiana beat us in that period (94 maybe?) Knight came up with something to beat our press that Pitino was forced to address, which made UK better.
Pitino and the 14 and 14 season unbelievable coaching job and no games lost at home also the huge comeback in 94 against lsu pitino you can say what you want to about him and alot is warranted but man what a great coaching mind
One other thing not mentioned about that great '75 game vs. IU ..... Coach Hall took heat all the time for not letting his guards shoot. We preferred to pound the ball inside because we had two huge, talented guys that could score. But in that IU game, Hall turned those boys loose! Mike Flynn and Jimmy Dan Connor wore them out! Great move by Hall and those seniors responded.
This is a great list, and most of the games that came to my mind were on it.
I might add the Kansas game in December 1990. The way we returned the favor for the epic beat down the previous season was masterful, and a sign of things to come.
I might add the Kansas game in December 1990. The way we returned the favor for the epic beat down the previous season was masterful, and a sign of things to come.
You're right about Pitino's loss to Duke in 92. On paper that Duke team should have beat that UK team by 30 points. Just another example of what a great coach that Rick Pitino was.
2003 Tubby Cats were so much better than they should've been.
26 wins in a row. Undefeated in a loaded SEC.
Number 1 seed with Keith Bogans and Gerald Fitch?
No better example in Kentucky history of whole more than the sum of its parts.
Florida came in ranked 1. And we just dominated them.
Up 23 at halftime.
Again, Marquis Estill and Erik Daniels?
That was all coaching performance.
26 wins in a row. Undefeated in a loaded SEC.
Number 1 seed with Keith Bogans and Gerald Fitch?
No better example in Kentucky history of whole more than the sum of its parts.
Florida came in ranked 1. And we just dominated them.
Up 23 at halftime.
Again, Marquis Estill and Erik Daniels?
That was all coaching performance.
These are the two which stand out to me as well. Joe Hall vs. Indiana in 1975 and Tubby vs. Duke in 1998.
Others that are nearly this remarkable, in no particular order, Tubby vs. Stanford in the 1998 final four, Joe Hall's FSU game in 1978, Cal's UNC game in the 2011 elite 8.
He benched his 2 All American starters Rick Robey and Jack Givens and another starter Truman Claytor.
Considering the pressure Hall was under, this was an amazing move. Of course, I don't know how long they sat there.
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Most basketball fans don't realize how phenomenal Chris Jackson/Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf was. He was Steph Curry long before that style became popular. To beat all, the man became a very successful pro with Tourette's Syndrome.
I wasn’t around for Rupp but he put us on the map so much RESPECT for that man. I have to totally agree with you about Pitino he was winning games with players that didn’t have business winning some of the games they were winning!
Freddie Cowan and Lavon Williams played 14 minutes a piece and Dwane Casey 6. Givens played 20 minutes and Robey played 23. Claytor ended up playing 31.
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