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

[From-the-stands]

All Time Wins: 2173 (NCAA rank #1)
All Time Winning Percentage: .764 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Championships: PENDING (NCAA rank #2)
NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 12 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Final Four Appearances: 16 (NCAA rank #3)
NCAA Final Four Games Played: 28 (NCAA rank #3)
NCAA Final Four Wins: 20 (NCAA rank #2)
NCAA Final Four Winning Percentage: .714 (NCAA rank #8)
NCAA Elite-8 Appearances: 35 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Sweet-16 Appearances: 40 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 53 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Games Played: 163 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Wins: 116 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Winning Percentage: .712 (NCAA rank #4)
Total Postseason Tournament Appearances (NCAA and NIT): 62 (NCAA rank #1)
NBA Draft Picks: 110 (NCAA rank #1)
All-Americans: 56 (NCAA rank #1)
All-American Total Selections: 86 (NCAA rank #1)
First Team Consensus All-Americans: 19 (NCAA rank #2)
First Team Consensus All-American Total Selections: 24 (NCAA rank #4)
AP Poll Top-20/25 Weeks Ranked All Time: 824 (NCAA rank #2)
AP Poll Top-10 Weeks Ranked All Time: 652 (NCAA rank #1)
AP Poll Top-5 Weeks Ranked All Time: 440 (NCAA rank #1)
AP Poll #1 Weeks Ranked All Time: 119 (NCAA rank #3)
Final AP Poll Top-25 Finishes: 48 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-20 Finishes: 48 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-15 Finishes: 43 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-10 Finishes: 39 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-5 Finishes: 28 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll #1 Finishes: 9 (NCAA rank #1)
All Time Winning Percentage Against AP-Ranked Opponents: .613 (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: 39 (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: 59 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 25-Win Seasons: 33 (NCAA rank #2)
Total 30-Win Seasons: 14 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 35-Win Seasons: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Average Victories Per Season Played: 19.4017857142 (NCAA rank #3)
Average Losses Per Season Played: 6.0 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Winning Seasons: 95 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Non-Losing Seasons (.500 or better): 98 (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: 28 (NCAA rank #1)
National Attendance Titles: 25 (NCAA rank #1)

(Of the 71 major categories listed above, Kentucky is #1 in 50 of them, #2 in 14 of them, #3 in 4 of them, #4 in 2 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 13 times
7 head coaches named SEC Coach-of-the-Year a total of 22 times
138 players named All-Conference a total of 231 times
79 players named All-Conference Tournament a total of 115 times
12 players named Conference Player-of-the-Year a total of 14 times
7 players named Conference Freshman-of-the-Year
31 players named to the All-Conference Freshman Team
14 players named Conference Tournament MVP a total of 15 times
18 players named All-NCAA Final Four a total of 21 times
48 players named All-NCAA Regional a total of 62 times
5 players named NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player a total of 6 times
11 players named NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Player a total of 12 times
74 players who played in the NBA at least one season
60 1000-point scorers
52 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

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 943-261 (.783), a league best 46 SEC Regular Season Championships, a league best all time SEC Tournament record of 123-25 (.831), and a league best 28 SEC Tournament Championships.

Kentucky holds the NCAA records for Consecutive Non-Losing Seasons (60), Consecutive Home Court Victories (129), and for Total Victories in a Season (38).

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 933 consecutive games (2nd-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), 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.



This post was edited on 3/15 6:02 PM by From-the-stands

This post was edited on 3/15 9:32 PM by From-the-stands

 

[reignof cats]

12 times a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament instead of 11 GBB

 

[From-the-stands]

Originally posted by reignof cats:

12 times a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament instead of 11 GBB

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[From-the-stands]

I've changed the # of championships to "pending"

 

[Captain Queeg]

Much needs to be updated on "The List." Look at the "Kentucky Basketball cumulative all time statistics section" on the bottom Wikipedia Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball page. It's keep current and accurate. Much of your transferred version here needs to be updated, along with adding a couple of new secondary categories that have now been added to the original. Also, this is about facts and statistics, not conjecture or assumptions. Therefore, listing "pending" is not only inaccurate, but also may be bad karma for the Big Blue. One can never assume.

Please merely look at the bottom of the UK Basketball Wikipedia page before you update "The List" on here. It will be already fully researched and updated there in a reasonable amount of time (a hour or two) after every additional UK accomplishment, statistical change, change in NCAA rank in any category, or after any major or sub categories have been added. Thank you for your help and work on here, but we must keep this 100% accurate.





This post was edited on 3/15 10:29 PM by Captain Queeg

 

[From-the-stands]

Originally posted by Captain Queeg:
Much needs to be updated on "The List." Look at the "Kentucky Basketball cumulative all time statistics section" on the bottom Wikipedia Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball page. It's keep current and accurate. Much of your transferred version here needs to be updated, along with adding a couple of new secondary categories that have now been added to the original. Also, this is about facts and statistics, not conjecture or assumptions. Therefore, listing "pending" is not only inaccurate, but also may be bad karma for the Big Blue. One can never assume.

Please merely look at the bottom of the UK Basketball Wikipedia page before you update "The List" on here. It will be already fully researched and updated there in a reasonable amount of time (a hour or two) after every additional UK accomplishment, statistical change, change in NCAA rank in any category, or after any major or sub categories have been added. Thank you for your help and work on here, but we must keep this 100% accurate.





This post was edited on 3/15 10:29 PM by Captain Queeg

Yeah, but I'm feeling pretty good about this one