*****"The List" aka "Why Kentucky is the #1 program of all-time"*****

[UKCaliCats27]

All Time Wins: 2388 (NCAA rank #1)
All Time Winning Percentage: .761 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Championships: 8 (NCAA rank #2)
NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 12 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Final Four Appearances: 17 (NCAA rank #2)
NCAA Final Four Games Played: 29 (NCAA rank #3)
NCAA Final Four Wins: 20 (NCAA rank #2)
NCAA Final Four Winning Percentage: .715 (NCAA rank #8)
NCAA Elite-8 Appearances: 38 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Sweet-16 Appearances: 45 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 60 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Games Played: 186 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Wins: 133 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Winning Percentage: .715 (NCAA rank #4)
Total Postseason Tournament Appearances (NCAA and NIT): 67 (NCAA rank #1)
NBA Draft Picks: 134 (NCAA rank #1)
All-Americans: 64 (NCAA rank #1)
All-American Total Selections: 91 (NCAA rank #1)
First Team Consensus All-Americans: 25 (NCAA rank #2)
First Team Consensus All-American Total Selections: 30 (NCAA rank #2)
AP Poll Top-20/25 Weeks Ranked All Time: 960 (NCAA rank #1)
AP Poll Top-10 Weeks Ranked All Time: 731 (NCAA rank #1)
AP Poll Top-5 Weeks Ranked All Time: 469 (NCAA rank #1)
AP Poll #1 Weeks Ranked All Time: 125 (NCAA rank #3)
Final AP Poll Top-25 Finishes: 54 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-20 Finishes: 51 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-15 Finishes: 46 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-10 Finishes: 46 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-5 Finishes: 30 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll #1 Finishes: 10 (NCAA rank #1)
All Time Winning Percentage Against AP-Ranked Opponents: .620 (NCAA Rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-25 Finishes: 47 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-20 Finishes: 46 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-15 Finishes: 43 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-10 Finishes: 45 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-5 Finishes: 30 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll #1 Finishes: 8 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 20-Win Seasons: 64 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 25-Win Seasons: 36 (NCAA rank #2)
Total 30-Win Seasons: 16 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 35-Win Seasons: 6 (NCAA rank #1)
Average Victories Per Season Played:19.4464285714 (NCAA rank #3)
Average Losses Per Season Played: 6.0 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Winning Seasons: 102 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Non-Losing Seasons (.500 or better): 104 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Undefeated Seasons: 2 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Head Coaches With a NCAA Championship: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Head Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championships: 1 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Head Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championships in the Same Decade: 1 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Head Coaches With a NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Head Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 4 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Head Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances in the Same Decade: 4 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Head Coaches With a NCAA Final Four Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Head Coaches With Multiple NCAA Final Four Appearances: 4 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Head Coaches With Multiple NCAA Final Four Appearances in the Same Decade: 4 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Head Coaches With Both NCAA and NIT Championships: 2 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With a NCAA Championship: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Championships: 3 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With a NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 6 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With a NCAA Final Four Appearance: 7 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Final Four Appearances: 5 (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: 48 (NCAA rank #2)
Conference Tournament Championships: 31 (NCAA rank #1)
National Attendance Titles: 28 (NCAA rank #1)

(Of the 71 major categories listed above, Kentucky is #1 in 50 of them, #2 in 16 of them, #3 in 3 of them, #4 in 1 of them, and #8 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 20 times
12 players named NBA All-Star a total of 23 times
12 Olympic Gold Medal winners
10 Naismith Hall-of-Fame members
5 players named National Player-of-the-Year
2 players named National Freshman-of-the-Year
6 head coaches named National Coach-of-the Year a total of 14 times
7 head coaches named SEC Coach-of-the-Year a total of 22 times
139 players named All-Conference a total of 230 times
83 players named All-Conference Tournament a total of 120 times
12 players named Conference Player-of-the-Year a total of 14 times
7 players named Conference Freshman-of-the-Year
32 players named to the All-Conference Freshman Team
17 players named Conference Tournament MVP a total of 18 times
18 players named All-NCAA Final Four a total of 21 times
51 players named All-NCAA Regional a total of 65 times
5 players named NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player a total of 6 times
12 players named NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Player a total of 13 times
74 players who played in the NBA at least one season
60 1000-point scorers
57 players named McDonald's All-American
6 times being ranked #1 in the season opening AP Poll
6 times being ranked #1 in the season opening UPI/Coaches' Poll
12 times a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament
4 times being the NCAA official #1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament

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


Kentucky has 2 NIT Championships (1946, 1976), 7 Helms Titles (1933, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1954, 1958, 1978), 2 undefeated seasons (1912, 1954), 5 Sugar Bowl Tournament Championships (1937, 1939, 1949, 1956, 1963), a league best all time SEC regular season record of 1006-281 (.782), a league best 49 SEC Regular Season Championships, a league best all time SEC Tournament record of 134-26 (.838), and a league best 31 SEC Tournament Championships. Kentucky also holds the SEC's all time consecutive win streak among all past or present SEC schools at 38 straight victories, and is one of only 2 SEC schools to ever finish at 21-0 for the entire SEC season (18-0 record in the SEC Regular Season, plus a 3-0 record in the SEC Tournament).

Kentucky holds the NCAA records for Consecutive Non-Losing Seasons (60), Consecutive Home Court Victories (129), and for Total Victories in a Season (38), and for the best start for any season in NCAA Men's Basketball history at 38-0.

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 1013 consecutive games (1st-most all time), and has won 17 of the last 20 National Attendance Titles, including 8 of the last 10 and 25 overall.

Kentucky is the only school to have multiple NCAA (8) and NIT (2) Championships, the only school to have 5 different NCAA Championship head coaches, the only school to have 4 coaches with multiple NCAA Championship Game appearances, the only school to have 4 coaches with multiple NCAA Championship Game appearances in the same decade, the only school to have 4 coaches with 3 NCAA Final Four appearances, the only school to win NCAA Championships in 5 different decades, the only school to win multiple NCAA Championships in 3 different decades, the only school to have NCAA Championship Game appearances in 5 different decades, the only school to have multiple NCAA Championship Game appearances in 5 different decades, the only school to have multiple NCAA Final Four appearances in 5 different decades, the only school to have 2 different head coaches win both NCAA and NIT Championships, and the one of only 2 schools to have 2 different head coaches win a NCAA Championship in the same decade.

Kentucky has played before the largest regulation basketball game crowd in history (79,444), the largest Final Four game crowd in history (79,444), the largest NCAA Championship Game crowd in history (79,238), and the largest total Final Four game crowd (both games) in history (158,682).

Kentucky is the only school to have 5 players selected in the 1st-Round of the NBA Draft in the same year (2010), the only school to have both the #1 and #2 picks of the NBA Draft in the same year (2012), the only school to have 6 players drafted in the first 2 rounds of the NBA draft in the same year (2012, 2015), and the only school to sign 6 McDonald's All-Americans in the same year (2013).

Kentucky was the first college program to reach both the 1000-win and 2000-win victory plateaus.

Kentucky is the first team to be live-broadcast on the SEC Network.

Kentucky is one of only three schools to have 9 McDonald's All-Americans on a single roster.

Kentucky is the first school to hold an on-campus NBA Combine.

 

[UKCaliCats27]

My internet was down for a couple a days and it got lost and i was just waiting for someone else
to pick up the "List"......... So anyway.........................

 

[UKMallard86]

Does someone have a link to this that stays updated after each game? I bookmark it when I see it here on the forums but the threads get deleted after so long...

 

[BluegrassBaron]

Originally posted by UKMallard86:
Does someone have a link to this that stays updated after each game? I bookmark it when I see it here on the forums but the threads get deleted after so long...

It's always updated at the bottom of the "Kentucky Wildcats Men's Basketball" Wikipedia page after every game, accomplishment, or any change in stats.

I am the one who does this, and it's 100% accurate within 1 hour after every game. The section is entitled: "Kentucky Basketball Cumulative All Time Statistics."

Hope this helps.






This post was edited on 12/8 11:57 AM by BluegrassBaron

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Thanks for bringing it back, and for updating it BluegrassBaron.

 

[UKCaliCats27]

updated here.......

Cats #1

 

[kyboss360]

Alumni or nah?

 

[Jkwo]

Man, UK2K certainly doesn't feel that far back to me - almost at 2150.

Time flies when you're kicking a little tush then getting back on the bus.

 

[UKCaliCats27]

Btt

This post was edited on 12/12 11:59 PM by UKCaliCats27

 

[UKCaliCats27]

***bump***

 

[W2R]

Originally posted by kyboss360:
Alumni or nah?

Yep

 

[runt#69]

bump

 

[kyfan606]

bttt

 

[jwhite123]

Bump

 

[UKCaliCats27]

It's GAMEDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Time to bump the "List" back to the top.

This post was edited on 12/20 1:51 PM by UKCaliCats27

 

[UKCaliCats27]

 

[amdub21]

Mods, can we just pin this top the top?? That way when any UK fan gets into a heated debate with fans of other teams, we know exactly where to find it.

 

[KentuckyWildcat4Life]

Time to add the 7points ucla stat to this list

 

[UKCaliCats27]

 

[dmaso44]

Originally posted by W2R:

Originally posted by kyboss360:
Alumni or nah?

Yep

Not, the OP but he is in this thread. Hint double B

 

[dmaso44]

Btt

 

[reignof cats]

Rank needs to be changed from 4 to 3 in AP ranked #1 all time @ 108 weeks. We tied the cheats in that category. First of many adjustments this year. GBB

 

[UKCaliCats27]

Originally posted by reignof cats:

Rank needs to be changed from 4 to 3 in AP ranked #1 all time @ 108 weeks. We tied the cheats in that category. First of many adjustments this year. GBB

Good catch!

Fixed!

&

Thanks!

 

[BluegrassBaron]

Originally posted by UKCaliCats27:

Originally posted by reignof cats:

Rank needs to be changed from 4 to 3 in AP ranked #1 all time @ 108 weeks. We tied the cheats in that category. First of many adjustments this year. GBB

Good catch!

Fixed!

&

Thanks!

As a result, UK is now #3 in 4 categories and #4 in 2. This needs to be changed also.

 

[UKCaliCats27]

Originally posted by BluegrassBaron:

Originally posted by UKCaliCats27:

Originally posted by reignof cats:

Rank needs to be changed from 4 to 3 in AP ranked #1 all time @ 108 weeks. We tied the cheats in that category. First of many adjustments this year. GBB

Good catch!

Fixed!

&

Thanks!

As a result, UK is now #3 in 4 categories and #4 in 2. This needs to be changed also.

Got it!

I will remember to change that next time also when they move up a ranking.

 

[UKCaliCats27]

**Bump**

 

[BluegrassBaron]

Thanks for update, OP, but you might want to space out the bottom section into paragraphs for easier reading.

 

[UKCaliCats27]

No Problem

&

fixed.

 

[UKCaliCats27]

btt.

 

[Vandalayindustries]

Thanks UKCaliCats - a lot of hard work went into this, appreciate it!

 

[UKCaliCats27]

btt

 

[UKCaliCats27]

**Update**

& back to the top.

 

[UKCaliCats27]

bttt.

 

[BluegrassBaron]

Stay on top of Wiki. Trust me, it will be accurate.

 

[UKCaliCats27]

It's Gameday!!!!!!!

 

[UKCaliCats27]

**bttt*

 

[UKCaliCats27]

Kentucky is #1.

 

[gjcollins79]

I love the list!
Huge props to all those responsible for keeping it up to date!

 

[Kycatspaws]

 

[bigbluelou]

Bump, because we need to add another item.

If I heard this correctly, Kentucky is the first college basketball program to have ESPN SportsCenter broadcast its entire show live from the school's arena.