What's the Biggest Brawl in UK Basketball History?
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It didn’t come to blows but what about Ramel Bradley and Andrew Bogut? Bradley come flying out of a pile up on the floor and stood face to face to Bogut. This may be on one if UK’s intro videos.
Well I’ll never say with certainty it was false because I wasn’t there. As far as I’ll go is to say that there’s no evidence to support it. I have to assume that if something like that did happen that it would be mentioned somewhere, either as part of the game description or later when newspaper columnists discuss the latest gossip etc. In this particular case I’ve searched multiple sources (including in both Kentucky and Pittsburgh) and have never seen anything to corroborate it. I’ve even tried contacting Ditka himself to no avail.
Larry Stamper knocked Perry Wallace cold with one punch, I was watching the game. It was not in the tournament, it was in the regular season. Stamper got into a fight with Bob Lackey who was marquette's best player and got him kicked out of the game. That was in the 1972 ncaa tournament. I was watching that game too. That was the same game when All McGuire tried to get into it with coach Rupp, and Stamper stepped in the middle of that too. Larry Stamper was a bad man, wasn't a very good player, but he was a bad man. That Austin Peay game was the next year 1973, When Austin Peay had Fly Williams.
Thanks for posting this. You should keep that gif permanent with all your posts. I love looking at it. Hate that we lost that game, top 5 bitter pill. But at least Riddick gave us that one precious memory. Some might say that's wrong, but that's just how classless I am. Hate me.
Laetner should not even have been in the game for that last shot. If he would have played on any other team in the country, he would have been thrown out of the game when he stomped on Timberlake, but the rules for duke are different than they are for every other team, except for maybe Kansas.
You are probably correct,I just don't remember the game right now.The game and events I described took place on March 15 1973 in Memorial Gym in Nashville. Marq and IU played the other game and IU won,then went on to beat UK in the next game.
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The biggest UK brawl I can remember was when Jamal Magloire Knocked out Miami of Ohio’s mascot in the S16:
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Percy Howard went on to play in the NFL for Dallas and has a TD reception from SB10 vs. the Steelers. His only career reception and TD.
No doubt in my mind UK makes another FF appearance had Mohammed stayed for his Sr. year.
That wasn’t a fight, that was attempted murder. Dakari should be in prison. How did jones even survive that?
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He backed down from no one. I recall during Rupp;s last win he abused Marquette underneath. Bob Lackey took a cheap shot at Stamper and he took a swing at Lackey that would have knocked him out had it landed. I saw him playing in an independent league tournament at Prestonsburg in 1976 and the official made a bad call against him. He grabbed the ball, slammed it down then threw it at the official. Took several of his teammates to stop him from hammering the official.
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Never heard that one but don't doubt it one bit. I had also heard that Todd May got into a fight with Derrick Hord in practice and put May on the floor.
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I recall that game and I believe it was in 1982, although I could be a year off. Don't know what Tuohy was thinking but I can't imagine what would have happened.
Tuohy was certainly blindsided by it.
If I remember correctly, KY would not have won that game if Stamper and Ronnie Lyons were not inserted into the game ... Stamper for rebounding and Lyons for ball-handling to beat the AP press, as Connors and Flynn struggled against the pressure.
Would love to see a replay of games from back then, I didn't really began to follow UK until Hall and the Super Kittens took over but vaguely remember Rupps later teams.
BS. That would have been Carruth, probably aided by Chiles.
I was at that game, and I remember it as Minniefield and Touhy. Minniefield dropped him with an elbow at mid court. The Ole Miss fans then started throwing stuff at the UK bench. I remember Bowie shielding himself with a towel over his head.
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Minniefield? Wow, all these years I pictured it as Charles Hurt, because I thought I remembered the announcers talking about they wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of "Charles Atlas". But since you were there, I'll take your word for it.
It's been a long time, and my memory isn't what it used to be. So I could be wrong, but that is how I remember it. We may be talking about separate incidents as well.
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Fitch has been at the center of Kentucky's stormy season. Earlier this year, he was suspended for scuffling with teammate Cory Sears on a team flight. A week later, he and teammate Erik Daniels were busted for trying to use a fake ID to get into a bar.
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I thought the same. I remember that it was on the front page of the LHL the next day.
I don't remember Perry Wallace being in many fights
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Not Perry but there was a picture of Stamper and Van Bredakoff on the front page.
