Top 5 Favorite and Least favorite Cats

[Mike-McD]

Not who you think were the best and worst players, but the Cats you loved the most and liked the least (doesn't matter the reason).

My top 5 favorite:

Oscar Tschiebwe - Dude just grabbed my heart the way he just loves Kentucky
Anthony Epps - Courage and emotion
Jeff Sheppard - True hero who helped us win on a bum leg
Jamal Mashburn - One of the best ever and a real tragedy he never won a title, just kept his head down and dominated
Terrence Jones - Heart of a lion, wore his feelings on his sleeve.

Top 5 least favorite:

Shaedon Sharpe - OK he's not technically a Cat, but still he was here and he must be listed since he's the worst ever
Michael Porter - Shouldn't have started one game and off the court issues
Daniel Orton - left before the end of the year and hurt our academics
Rashaad Carruth
Kahlil Whitney

 

[villefan76]

Top 5:
1. John Wall
2. Gerald Fitch
3. AD
4 Jeff Sheppard
5. Derek Anderson

Least 5 favorite.
1. The Dragon KW
2. Daniel Orton
3. Carruth
4. Saul Smith
5. Shaedon Sharpe although I don’t consider him to be a Kentucky player he did everything a player does except play.

 

[CincinnatiWildcat]

Not who you think were the best and worst players, but the Cats you loved the most and liked the least (doesn't matter the reason).

My top 5 favorite:

Oscar Tschiebwe - Dude just grabbed my heart the way he just loves Kentucky
Anthony Epps - Courage and emotion
Jeff Sheppard - True hero who helped us win on a bum leg
Jamal Mashburn - One of the best ever and a real tragedy he never won a title, just kept his head down and dominated
Terrence Jones - Heart of a lion, wore his feelings on his sleeve.

Top 5 least favorite:

Shaedon Sharpe - OK he's not technically a Cat, but still he was here and he must be listed since he's the worst ever
Michael Porter - Shouldn't have started one game and off the court issues
Daniel Orton - left before the end of the year and hurt our academics
Rashaad Carruth
Kahlil Whitney

I think Cameron Fletcher was worse than Whitney personally

 

[villefan76]

I think Cameron Fletcher was worse than Whitney personally

I had honestly forgot about that kid.

 

[crawfords corner]

The only one I don't like is Shaedon Sharpe.

 

[MegaBlue05]

Favorite:

1. Jamal Mashburn - my first UK hero
2. Tony Delk - led UK to its first championship in my lifetime
3. Anthony Epps - gritty, tough, extremely underrated
4. Chuck Hayes - see above
5. MKG - always played hard, had a knack for being in the right place at the right time

Least favorite:

1. Michael Porter - total scrub and kid diddler to boot
2. Sharpe - Used us and contributed absolutely nothing
3. Rex Chapman - great player but embarrassed the program after his playing days and is in one of the two wackadoodle political cults, both of which I despise
4. Sheray Thomas - by all accounts a good dude, but played way too may minutes for his talent level
5. Rashaad Carruth - All around punk who never lived up to the hype outside of 1 game against Duke

 

[Lempface]

5. Rashaad Carruth - All around punk who never lived up to the hype outside of 1 game against Duke

I'm not saying I disagree but is there a better opponent to have that game against?

 

[Gromcat]

Favs.

1. Delk - have a lot of experiences with him. Played near my hometown and in my high school gym, great guy, and the baller on my favorite team ever. Childhood hero.
2. Shep - Jeff is all blue. We know him and his wife a little, and went to their camps. Had a lot of memories with them and pretended to be him many years in my driveway.
3. Anderson
4. Hayes
5. Ford - First UK player I remember I’d die for
6. Knight / Mashburn / a few others.


Hard to put the first 2 in an order.

Least favorite

1. Sharpe
2. Boston
3. Orton
4. Thomas - nice guy, was sick, but I hated the focus on him. He and Perry omg.
5. Enter any random unlikable Calipari “outa here ASAP” player. There’s several. Porter etc.

 

[Ripcord65]

FAVORITES:

1. COTTON NASH (1962, '63, and '64 seasons)
--- most underrated by U.K. fans
--- three-time consensus All American (2nd team, '62 – 63; 1st team, '64)
--- No. 2 all-time career points-per-game (22.69 ppg, career)
--- No. 5 all-time career rebounds (962 in 78 games)(12.33 rpg, career)

2. LARRY CONLEY (1964, '65, and '66)
--- The "glue guy" for Rupp's Runts ('66 NCAA Runner-Up)
--- 12.26 ppg, 6.0 rpg,, 4.15 apg in 1965-66.
--- A favorite in part because I saw him play in the '61 and '62 State Tournaments.

3. JOHNNY COX (1957, '58, and '59)
--- underrated by U.K. fans
--- Leading rebounder (12.6 rpg) for 1958 NCAA Champions.
--- No. 12 all-time career points-per-game (17.39 ppg, career)
--- No. 4 all-time career rebounds (1,004 in 84 games)(11.95 rpg, career)
--- A favorite in part because I saw him play in the 1955 State Tournament.

4. MICHAEL KIDD-GILCHRIST (2012).
--- IMHO, the indisputable MVP of the 2012 NCAA Champs.
--- That's enough said. Everybody on the board knows about MKG.

5. JEFF SHEPPARD
--- Final Four MOP for the 1998 NCAA Champs.
--- Had one of the best big-time games in U.K. history in the semifinals vs. Stanford.
--- Was the driving force in enabling the '98 Champs to overcome Tubby.

* I agree with most other posters about "least favorites."

 

[ukcatz12]

Terrence Jones Shaedon Sharpe was a selfish motherf*cker

 

[ArcadiaFan]

Top 5 Favorite:
Ramel Bradley
Jules Camara
Woo
Gerald Fitch
Heshimu Evans

Least Favorite:
Steve Masiello
Travis Ford
Terrance Jones
Michael Porter
Tai Wynyard.

 

[ruppcat]

Favorite:

1. Jamal Mashburn - my first UK hero
2. Tony Delk - led UK to its first championship in my lifetime
3. Anthony Epps - gritty, tough, extremely underrated
4. Chuck Hayes - see above
5. MKG - always played hard, had a knack for being in the right place at the right time

Least favorite:

1. Michael Porter - total scrub and kid diddler to boot
2. Sharpe - Used us and contributed absolutely nothing
3. Rex Chapman - great player but embarrassed the program after his playing days and is in one of the two wackadoodle political cults, both of which I despise
4. Sheray Thomas - by all accounts a good dude, but played way too may minutes for his talent level
5. Rashaad Carruth - All around punk who never lived up to the hype outside of 1 game against Duke

Sharpe......that could be more on Cal. I've never seen a situation like that in all my years.

Carruth was a gunner but a headcase. His subsequent career has borne that out.

 

[ORCAT10]

Top 5 Favorites:
Macy
Goose
Walker
Epps
Shep

Won’t name least favorites.