ever coached.
After touring Europe with the Globetroters in 1951, Hall returned to U.K. in 1955 to complete requirements for his B.A. and later (1964) received his M.A. at Colorado State University.
Returning to U.K. again in 1965 an assistant coach and head recruiter, he was instrumental in adopting a running-conditioning program which obviously paid huge dividends as the Wildcats capitalized on speed and endurance to offset a lack of size and advance to the championship game of the NCAA Finals. Hall then successfully recruited six prep All-Americans, including all-time U.K. scoring leader Dan Issel, to form the nucleus of a varsity team that won three straight conference championships and was followed by a team that won three more consecutive SEC titles.
Hall became No. 1 varsity assistant and head freshman Coach to Rupp after Harry C. Lancaster was named permanent athletic director Feb. 1, 1969. His record with the freshmen was 60-15, including an undefeated (22-0) season (1971-72) which resulted in the Kittens being crowned National Freshman Cham-
pions by the Basketball News.
During his first season as head coach, the Wildcats won their last nine conference games to sew up the SEC title.
International Flavor
Hall's basketball renown has attracted world-wide attention in international circles and has catapulted him into a much sought-after clinician and guest speaker. He has taken Wildcat teams on tours of Australia and Japan, where he conducted clinics and shared his basketball philosophy.
Hall was instrumental in landing an invitation to the University of Alabama for a '79 summer tour of Japan and later accepted an invitation to join the Bama delegation.
In the summer of 1980, Hall conducted a clinic in Santiago, Chile, as a guest of the Chilean Basketball Federation. More than 400 coaches from throughout South America attended the clinic. Last summer, he conducted clinics in Ireland.
In 1978, Hall coached the United States All-Stars, a group of collegians that included five of his own
players, to the first World Invitational Tournament championship with wins over Cuba, Yugoslavia and Russia. Later that summer, he conducted a series of clinics in England, Belgium, Holland, Yugoslavia, Greece and Israel.
Hall was a busy man in off-season 1979 as well, coaching the victorious East team in the East-West College All-Star game at Salt Lake City, and the Southeastern All-Stars in the Shoney Classic at Charlotte, N.C, and conducting clinics in Warsaw, Copenhagen and London.
Hall considers one of his major coaching honors came when he was named guest lecturer for the World Basketball Coaches Congress in the Canary Islands, July 1977, before some 400 coaches from the international set.
He was a member of the 1976 Olympic Basketball Committee, and in 1972 served under Hank Iba in the Olympic Trials at the Air Force Academy.
He is married to the former Katharine Dennis of Harrison County, Ky. They have three children  Mrs. Kathy (Mike) Summers, Mrs. Judy (Rick) Derrickson and Steve of Lexington.
COACH JOE B. HALL AND FAMILY  Seated from left to right, Katharine and Coach Joe B. Hall. Standing from lett to right, Rick Derrickson, Judy Derrickson (daughter), Steve (son), Kathy Summers (daughter), and Mike Summers.
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