Below are reprints of various magazine articles about Kentucky basketball through the years. The purpose of this page is to give Kentucky and general college basketball fans convenient access to the original historical articles which help shed light on the greatest collegiate basketball program in the history of the sport as it evolved through the years.
Most of the articles revolve around Kentucky head coach Adolph Rupp, as he towered over the program and in many ways, molded it into his own image. Some of the articles have only a passing relevancy to UK, although they do help illustrate the times and important issues of the day.
| Cover | Magazine | Date | Topic | Article Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Time Magazine | February, 1934 | Nationwide Basketball Roundup | Basketball: Midseason |
 | Literary Digest Magazine | February, 1935 | 1935 NYU Game | Eastern Candidate for Basketball's Crown |
 | Athletic Journal Magazine | February, 1936 | Footwork | Offensive and Defensive Footwork in Basketball (by Adolph Rupp) |
 | Look Magazine | February, 1941 | Officiating with reference to 1935 NYU Game | How Basketball Players Beat the Rules (by Pat Kennedy) |
 | Esquire Magazine | February, 1943 | Adolph Rupp | He's Rupp and Ready (by Jimmy Jones) |
 | True Sport Magazine | February, 1945 | Out of Bounds Play | Kentucky's Out-Of-Bounds Play (by Adolph Rupp) |
 | Life Magazine | January, 1947 | Wabash Game | Speedy Basketball |
 | Saturday Evening Post Magazine | February, 1947 | Adolph Rupp | The Crafty Wizard of Lexington (by Collie Small) |
 | Look Magazine | February, 1947 | 1947 St. Johns Game | Kentucky Aces in Action |
 | Sport Magazine | March, 1947 | 1947 Squad | Champions from Kentucky (by Fred Russell) |
 | True Magazine | April, 1947 | 1947 All Americans (Alex Groza, Ralph Beard and Jack Tingle) | True's All-American Basketball Team (by Blair Guillion & Haskell Cohen) |
 | Sportfolio Magazine | February, 1948 | Wallace Jones | "We Want Wah-Wah!" (by Roy Steinfort) |
 | Time Magazine | April, 1948 | 1948 NCAA Champions | Winning Ways |
 | Sport Magazine | December, 1948 | Alex Groza and family | The Grozas Are All Great (by Bob Richelson) |
 | Athletic Journal Magazine | December, 1948 | Out of Bounds Plays | Out-of-Bounds Plays (by Adolph Rupp) |
 | Pageant Magazine | January, 1949 | Watching Basketball | Let's Look at Basketball (by Adolph Rupp) |
 | Time Magazine | February, 1949 | Adolph Rupp | Man in the Brown Suit |
 | Sports Illustrated | February, 1949 | 1948-49 Team | Kentucky's pore little boys (by Larry Shropshire) |
 | Sportfolio Magazine | February, 1949 | 1949 Squad | Rupp's Roving Rodeo (by Jim Murphy) |
 | Pathfinder Magazine | February, 1949 | 1949 Squad | College Court Champs (by Watson Fenimore) |
 | Sport Magazine | March, 1949 | Ralph Beard | Ralph Beard: Basketball Big Shot (by Ed Fitzgerald) |
 | Going Places Magazine | April, 1949 | Adolph Rupp | Green Pastures in the Bluegrass |
 | Sport Life Magazine | May, 1949 | Alex Groza | Sport Life Album: Alex Groza |
 | Clair Bee's BASKETBALL Annual | 1949 Edition | 1948 Olympic Champions Sugar Bowl Tournament | My Greatest Basketball Thrill (by Adolph Rupp) The Sugar Bowl Classic (by Fred Digby) |
 | Life Magazine | December, 1949 | Indianapolis Olympians | Pro Champions Defeat the Great Kentuckians |
 | Sir ! Magazine | December, 1949 | Indianapolis Olympians | Will Kentucky's Olympians Make the Grade ? (by Ben Gould) |
 | Sport Magazine | January, 1950 | Indianapolis Olympians | The Great Basketball Experiment (by Jim Dailey) |
 | Quick Magazine | January, 1950 | George Mikan and Alex Groza | Perpetual Record-Breaker |
 | True Magazine | February, 1950 | Adolph Rupp | Basketball's Bumptious Baron (by Stanley Frank) |
 | Boys' Life Magazine | March, 1950 | Adolph Rupp on Shooting Techniques | It's a Goal (by Adolph Rupp) |
 | Sports stars Magazine | April, 1950 | Alex Groza and the Indianapolis Olympians | How High Can Groza Go ? |
 | Spalding Sports Show for 1950-51 | 1950-51 | Cartoon of the Indianapolis Olympians | Spalding Sports Show |
 | Scholastic Coach | November, 1950 | Pivot Play | Kentucky's Style of Pivot Play (by Adolph Rupp) |
 | Dell Sports Album | Winter 1950-51 | Bill Spivey, Bobby Watson and Adolph Rupp | Best of the Nation ? (by Editors of Dell Sports Album) |
 | Time Magazine | December, 1950 | Bill Spivey and the Kansas game | Ready & Loaded |
 | Stanley Woodward's Basketball | Winter 1951 | Bill Spivey 1950-51 Team | Bill Spivey - All American best teams: Kentucky |
 | Sport Magazine | January, 1951 | Early Gambling Scandals Bill Spivey | Basketball Betting: An Open Scandal (by Stanley Woodward) Seven Feet, All Spivey (by Fred Russell) |
 | Look Magazine | March, 1951 | Adolph Rupp | Rupp ! Rupp ! How Many Baskets Up ? (by Tim Cohane) |
 | Sport Life Magazine | March, 1951 | Bill Spivey and Alex Groza | Don't Push Spivey Around ! (by Ed Ashford) Basketball's Busy Business Man (by Bob Richelson) |
 | The American Hereford Journal | April, 1951 | Adolph Rupp and his bull Domino | Adolph Rupp Find Herefords A Profitable Relaxation (by Don McCarthy) |
 | Scholastic Coach | December, 1951 | Kentucky's Fast Break | Kentucky's Fast Break (by Adolph Rupp) |
 | Basketball Illustrated | Winter 1951-52 | Bill Spivey | 1952 All-American (by Editors of Sports Review) |
 | Look Magazine | January, 1952 | Basketball Recruiting | How Basketball Players are Bought (by Tim Cohane) |
 | True Magazine | March, 1952 | 1951 Gambling Scandal | How I Fixed Big-Time Basketball Games (by Nick Englisis) |
 | Sports Review Magazine | January, 1953 | North-South All-Star Game | Rebels Lose Cage Tilt to Yanks (by Erl Sensing) |
 | Sport Magazine | March, 1953 | 1951 Scandal Aftermath | Kentucky Apologizes for Nothing ! (by Jimmy Breslin) |
 | Coach & Athlete Magazine | November, 1953 | Defensive Play | Theory of Defensive Play (by Adolph Rupp) |
 | Time Magazine | December, 1953 | 1954 Squad | Kentucky Comeback |
 | Sport Magazine | January, 1954 | 1954 Squad North-South All-Star Game | The Baron is Out to Get Even (by Jimmy Breslin) Schoolboy Basketball Auction (by Edd Kellow) |
 | Courier-Journal Magazine | February 1954 | 1954 Squad | When the Pressure is Off . . . (by Larry Boeck) |
 | Cavalier Magazine | March, 1955 | College Recruiting | Basketball's Flesh Scandal (by Milton Gross) |
 | Sports Illustrated | February, 1957 | Recruiting Agents | Basketball's Underground Railroad (by Richard Schaap) |
 | Sports Illustrated | December, 1957 | Adolph Rupp and 1957-58 team | Big Week for Man in Brown (by Jeremiah Tax) |
 | Sports Illustrated | March, 1958 | 1958 National Championship Game | The Old Master Outfoxed Them (by Jeremiah Tax) |
 | Sports Review | 1958 Basketball Issue | UKIT | Bluegrass Classic (by Bill Surface) |
 | Sports Illustrated | December, 1958 | Adolph Rupp UK Cheerleaders | 'Defeat and Failure To Me Are Enemies' (by Adolph Rupp) A Cheerleader's Lot Is Not Always a Happy One |
 | Sports Review | 1959 Basketball Issue | 1958 Championship Squad | Why Kentucky Wins Championships (by Bill Surface) |
 | Look Magazine | January, 1959 | Cliff Hagan and Frank Ramsey | Pro Basketball's Kentucky Feud: Ramsey vs. Hagan |
 | Time Magazine | January, 1959 | Adolph Rupp | The Baron |
 | Saturday Evening Post Magazine | December, 1959 | Oscar Robertson | Basketball's Moody Marvel (by Milton Gross) |
 | Sport Magazine | March, 1959 | Adolph Rupp Cliff Hagan | The Life and Battles of Adolph Rupp (by Furman Bisher) The Almost Happy Life of Cliff Hagan (by Irv Goodman) |
 | Coach & Athlete Magazine | January, 1960 | Pivot Play | The Pivot Play (by Adolph Rupp) |
 | Sports Review | January, 1960 | Adolph Rupp National High School Tournaments | Humorous Side of Basketball (by Bill Surface) Can National High School Basketball Tournaments be Revived? (by Leo Fischer) |
 | True Magazine | March, 1960 | Adolph Rupp | Basketball's Bumptious Baron (by Bill Surface and Jimmy Breslin) |
 | Sports Review | January, 1961 | Adolph Rupp and 1961 Team | Without VICTORY the game means NOTHING (by Bill Surface) |
 | Courier-Journal Magazine | January, 1961 | Early Basketball at Kentucky | Birth Of The Big Blue (by Gerald Griffin) |
 | Sports Action | February, 1962 | Figure 8 Offense | Figure 8 Continuity Offense |
 | Sports Illustrated | February, 1962 | Adolph Rupp 1962 Squad | The Old Master Has a New Kind of Winner (by Ray Cave) |
 | Saturday Evening Post Magazine | January, 1962 | NCAA Issues | The Great Basketball Debate (by Frank Gardner and Adolph Rupp) |
 | Sport Magazine | July, 1963 | Alex Groza | The Return of Alex Groza (by Fred Katz) |
 | Sports Illustrated | February, 1964 | Adolph Rupp | The Urbane Baron Concocts Another Surprise (by John Underwood) |
 | Courier-Journal Magazine | March 1965 | Adolph Rupp and Western's Ed Diddle | Terrific Two: The Winning Ways of Diddle and Rupp (by Joe Creason) |
 | Clair Bee's Basketball | 1965 | John McLendon Emotion in Basketball | The Big Dream (by John McLendon) The Great Equalizer: Emotion (by Adolph Rupp) |
 | Sports Illustrated | June, 1965 | Butch Beard | The Negro Athlete is Invited Home (by Frank Deford) |
 | Time Magazine | February, 1966 | 1966 Squad | The Baron's Runts |
 | Newsweek Magazine | March, 1966 | 1966 Squad | Big Little Men |
 | Sports Illustrated | March, 1966 | Adolph Rupp | Bravo for the Baron (by Frank Deford) |
 | Sports Illustrated | March, 1966 | 1966 Final Four | Now There Are Four (by Frank Deford) |
 | Sports Illustrated | March, 1966 | Texas Western game | Go-Go with Bobby Joe (by Frank Deford) |
 | Business Progress | October, 1966 | Adolph Rupp | The Baron of Basketball (by Ted J. Rakstis) |
 | Sport Magazine | March, 1967 | Adolph Rupp | SOUND OFF! Adolph Rupp: I Don't Want to be a Mean Old Man (by Fred Katz) |
 | Sports Illustrated | February, 1968 | 1967-68 Squad and the SEC | Kentucky in a Wildcat League (by Joe Jares) |
 | Newsweek Magazine | February, 1968 | Adolph Rupp overtakes Phog Allen | The Baron Scores |
 | Louisville Courier Journal Sunday Magazine | February, 1968 | Adolph Rupp and the Fabulous Five | Adolph Rupp: Winningest Coach (by Billy Reed) |
 | Sports Illustrated | July, 1968 | Texas Western | In an Alien World (Part 3: The Black Athlete) (by Jack Olsen) |
 | NABC Coaches Clinic Program | 1969 | Adolph Rupp | Coaches Clinic Speaker: Adolph Rupp |
 | Sports Illustrated | December, 1969 | Adolph Rupp and the 1969-70 Team | E-Rupption in Wildcat Country (by Curry Kirkpatrick) |
 | Coach & Athlete Magazine | December, 1969 | Man to Man Defense | The Kentucky Man to Man Defense (by Adolph Rupp and Joe Hall) |
 | Sports Magazine | April, 1970 | Dan Issel and Historical All-Americans | Dan Issel: Adolph's Tenderizer (by Tad Heffernan) College Basketball's All-Time All-Americas (by Dave Sendler) |
 | Street & Smith's Basketball | 1972 | Adolph Rupp at Basketball Camp | Baron Bounces Back -- One More Time (by Rick Bolus) |
 | Inside Kentucky Sports | October, 1972 | Adolph Rupp on Retirement | The Rupp Viewpoint (by Adolph Rupp) |
 | Inside Kentucky Sports | November, 1972 | Adolph Rupp on Professional Influences | The Rupp Viewpoint (by Adolph Rupp) |
 | Sports Illustrated | December, 1972 | Joe Hall and the 1972-73 Team | In His Old Ky. Home, Far Away (by Barry McDermott) |
 | Coach & Athlete Magazine | November, 1973 | Adolph Rupp & Junior Pro Basketball | Junior Pro Basketball |
 | Sports Illustrated | January, 1975 | Joe Hall and the 1974-75 Team | Rupp's Old Fief is Far From Barren (by Curry Kirkpatrick) |
 | Sports Illustrated | December, 1976 | 1976-77 Team and Rupp Arena dedication | The Kain-tuck-eee Jubilee (by Barry McDermott) |
 | NCAA | 1976 | Adolph Rupp | Interview with Adolph Rupp (by Russell Rice) |
 | Sports Illustrated | January, 1978 | Kyle Macy and the Game vs. Notre Dame | Macy Had the Goods in Every Department (by Larry Keith) |
 | Sports Illustrated | April, 1978 | NCAA Championship Game vs. Duke | The Cats Go Wild (by Larry Keith) |
 | Sports Illustrated | April, 1978 | Joe Hall and the 1977-78 Team | Forty Minutes to Glory (by Barry McDermott) |
 | Basketball News 1979 Yearbook | 1979 | Joe Hall and Adolph Rupp's Legacy | Hall No Longer in Rupp's Shadow (by Bernie Beglane) The Baron Was a Legend |
 | Sports Illustrated | March, 1982 | 1981-82 SEC Tournament | Solution to a Thorny Problem (by Curry Kirkpatrick) |
 | Sports Illustrated | December, 1983 | Game vs. Louisville | The Big Cat Came to Play (by Curry Kirkpatrick) |
 | Sports Illustrated | February 1991 | Eric Manuel | Odd Man Out (by Alexander Wolff) |
 | Wildcat Tip-Off | 2009-10 | 2,000 Victories | The Race to 2,000 Wins (by Jon Scott) |
 | Wildcat Tip-Off | 2010-11 | UK High School All-Amerians | Big Men on Campus (by Jon Scott) |
 | Wildcat Tip-Off | 2011-12 | Pro Early Entrants | Nothing Left to Prove? (by Jon Scott) |
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