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NORTHWESTERN.............................Horned-70
Miami (O.) .................................. Away fO-73
Indiana..................................... Away 74 "98
North Carolina..............................Louisville 90-78
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;#rt***/|n. 11   Auburn .................................... Away Kj-^
Z4(i3lomn. 13  TENNESSEE.................................Home 88-6Z
ziO?*T)lzn. 18  Mississippi (TV)............................... Away 9S-81
*>6+t7)jan. 20  ALABAMA..................................Home 74-67
-^0443Uan. 25   FLORIDA ..................................Home e?7-65
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37<^Vfctb. 10   AUBURN...................................Home
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it>6*0Feb. 24  Florida..................................... Away S?-U,
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COVER PICTURE-Coach Joe B. Hall is encircled by his first full cycle of players at Kentucky. Recruited and coached by Hall as freshmen, they became known as the "Super-Kittens." They were undefeated in 22 games and won the title as National Freshmen Champions in 1972. In clockwise order from the top, they are: Kevin Grevey, Jimmy Dan Conner, G. J. Smith, Steve Lochmueller, Jerry Hale, Bob Guyette and Mike Flynn. Art work by Ted Watts, Oswego, Kansas. Photography by Laughead Photographers, Dallas, Texas. University of Kentucky Basketball Facts  1974-75
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All-Americans, All-NCAA......33-34
All-Conference...................34
Athletic Director Lancaster .......7-8
Athletic Asst. Dir. Hagan..........8-9
Athletic Association
Board of Directors..............9
Staff Members..................4
Attendance Records......Inside Back
Award Winners (Annual).......30-32
Basketball Staff
Coach Hall .................12-13
Assts. Parsons, Hamilton,
Nance......................14-15
Wilson, Edelman,
Keightley, Rollins..............16
Student Trn.'s, Mgr.'s ..........46
Coaches Through Years...........21
.Qil-eum .....................38-39
'C*/-.flStfous Five....................85
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J8+* - liotocord (All-Time) .............60
l44J-/z,*f$ults, 1973-74 ............... 57
to*l- /TSTster ........................51
213*' /^tfedule......................57
vgnees-Sketches...........56-57
fttistics-1973-74 ............. 59
23oZ-/9tr^am Picture..................58
Helm's Selections.................82
Home Floor Losses...............20
Lettermen Through Years......83-85
Modern Record (1946 to Date). 35-37
NCAA Titlists....................21
Nickname, Origin of..............49
Opponents Information
Highs and Lows.............81-82
Record vs. 1974-75
Opponents...............72-75
Record vs. All Opponents____86-88
Scouting Reports ...........61-71
Press-Radio-TV
Kentucky Outlets...............3
Working Information............2
Southeastern Conference
Champions By Years...........18
Composite Standing,
Kentucky In SEC,
Final SEC Standings-1973-74 .. 19
Television Series...............18
Sports Information-Rice, Perry ... 17
Tournament Trail .............27-29
UKIT.........................23-27
University of Kentucky
General Information ............4
President Singletary.............6
Varsity Basketball
Player Profiles..............40-46
Game By Game Rebounding____54.
Game By Game Scoring ........53
Outlook-1974-75 ............. 10
Quick Facts ....................5
Records-Team, Individual,
Misc., Memorial Coliseum . 76-82
Retired Jerseys ................47
Roster ........................50
Schedule .............Inside Front
Scorers-Top All Time,
Regular Season..............22
Scores-Game By Game ____89-103
Season Record-1973-74 ....... 49
Statistics-1973-74 ............. 52
Team Picture..................48
Time PlayedHigh Game.......55
TV-Delayed ...........Inside Back
Wildcats At A Glance...........11
Compiled By Jack Perry, Asst. Sports Information Director RUSSELL RICE. Director of Sports Information TO Till PRESS AND R \DIO-TV
Here is your copy of the 1974-75 facts booklet on Kentucky basketball which we sincerely hope will aid you in covering and answering questions on the Wildcats this season. If you desire additional information, special stories, pictures or have questions not answered herein, please feel free to contact the Sports Information Office in Memorial Coliseum (Telephone A.C. 606-257-3838, 257-3839).
RUSSELL RICE Director of Sports Information
JACK PERRY Asst. Director of Sports Information
Athletic Office Phones:
Harry C. Lancaster - (606) 258-2881 Cliff Hagan - (606) 258-5611 Coach Joe B. Hall - (606) 257-1916 or 257-1917 Asst. Coaches: Dick Parsons - (606) 257-3640; Leonard Hamilton - (606) 257-4781; Lynn Nance
(606) 258-8845
Information
WORKING TICKETS-Address requests to Sports Information Office as far in advance as possible. Tickets will not be mailed unless requested and will be held at the Information Window at the main entrance of Memorial Coliseum for pickup on game night.
PRESS DOOR-Entrance to the area set aside for press and radio should be via the Press Door located to the extreme left of the Coliseum entrance foyer.
PRESS ROOM-Located under west stands. Entrance near press door. COMPS-No individual game allotment.
TELECOPIERS-Due to the increasing use of Xerox Telecopiers and other copying devices, the Sports Information Office does not feel it should try to provide side-court telephone service for such devices. Persons planning to use such devices at the press table should make their own arrangements with General Telephone. Telephones in the Sports Information Office and in the Coliseum hallway will be available for Telecopier use.
RADIO BROADCASTS-Broadcasting rights to UK games are assigned exclusively to the Jim Host and Associates, 512 E. Main, Lexington, Ky., 40508 (Telephone 606-252-5696). One free reciprocal outlet is guaranteed opponent schools visiting Lexington. Any additional stations must clear through Jim Host and Associates and the UK Director of Broadcasting, Mr. Pete Manchikes (257-2655). Working passes will be supplied approved stations by Sports Information Office.
SERVICES-Working press and radio will be furnished game programs, brochures, running play-by-play, halftime quickie box and final statistics in the form of a complete, seven-column dittoed box score.
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PR! SS RADIO III I V INIO\ Ol III IS
Lexington:
Lexington Herald-Leader
Tom Easlerling
John McGill
D. G. Fit/maurice
227 Weit Short Street
Lexington. Ky. 40507
WVLK Radio Ralph Hacker
P.O. Box 1559 Lexington. Ky. 40501
WLAP SporU
Jeff Marks
P. O. Box 11670
Lexington. Ky. 40511
WBLG Radio SporU 130 Barr Street Lexington. Ky. 40507
WLEX-TV
Tom Hammond. Director P.O. Box 1457 Lexington. Ky. 40501
WKYT-TV
Denny Treaie. Director P.O. Box 655 Lexington. Ky. 40501
WTVQ-TV
Randy Waters. Director P.O. Box 1748 Lexington. Ky. 40501
Bob Cooper Associated Press 227 West Short Street Lexington. Ky. 40507
Kentucky Kernel Sports University of Kentucky Lexington. Ky. 40506
Louisville:
Louisville Courier-Journal
Dave Kindred
Mike Sullivan
525 West Broadway
Louisville. Ky. 40202
Louisville Times Sports Dick FenJon Jim Terhune Tev Laudcman 525 West Broadway Louisville. Ky. 40202
WHAS & WHAS-TV Cawood Led ford Mike James P.O. Box 1084 Louisville. Ky. 40201
Associated Press 525 West Broadway Louisville. Ky. 40201
Bob Weston UPI SporU P.O. Box 537 Louisville. Ky. 40201
WAVE & WAVE-TV Sports Ed Kallay. Director Joe Knight
725 South Floyd Street Louisville. Ky. 40203
WLKY-TV SporU Dave Conrad P.O. Box 6218 Louisville. Ky. 40216
WINN Radio SporU Third and Broadway
Louisville. Ky. 40202
WAKY Radio SporU 558 South Fifth Street Louisville. Ky. 40204
State:
Ashland Independent Mike Reliford Sports Department 226 17th Street Ashland. Ky. 41101
Park City News SporU Department 813 College Street Bowling Green. Ky. 42101
Tribune-Times Sports Ky. and Monroe StreeU Corbin. Ky. 40701
Post it Times-Star Sports Andy Cox
421 Madison Avenue Covington. Ky. 41011
Advocate-Messenger Sports Department Danville. Ky. 40422
News-Enterprise SporU Bob Watkins
Elizabethtown. Ky. 42701
SUte-Journal Sports Paul Weddle 321 West Main Street Frankfort. Ky. 40601
Dick Kimmons UPI SporU 321 W. Main Frankfort, Ky. 40601
The Times Sports
301 South Green Street
Glasgow. Ky. 42141
Gleaner-Journal SporU Steve Austin 216 North Elm Henderson, Ky. 42420
The Enterprise Sports Central Street Harlan. Ky. 40831
Kentucky New Era Sports Chip Hutcheson 123 West 7th Street Hopkinsville. Ky. 42240
The Messenger Mike Adkins, SporU 221 South Main Street Madisonville. Ky. 42431
Messenger Sports 206 West Broadway Mayfield. Ky. 42066
Ledger-Independent Sports Department 43 West Second Maysville. Ky. 41056
Doug Hartley News SporU Editor Chester Avenue Middlesboro. Ky. 40965
Messenger and Inquirer SporU Paul Williams 1401 Frederica Street Owensboro. Ky. 42301
Sun-Democrat Sports Pat Moynahan 408 Kentucky Avenue Paducah. Ky. 42001
Paris Daily Enterprise Dicky Baldwin 23 East 4 th Street Paris. Ky. 40361
Ken Green Register Sports South Second Street Richmond. Ky. 40475
Jim Kurk
Commonwealth-Journal 102 North Maple Street Somerset. Ky. 42501
The Winchester Sun Neal Bryant SporU Department Wall and Cleveland StreeU Winchester, Ky. 40391
3 UNIVERSITY 01' KENTUCKY
General Information
LOCATION-Lexington, Ky., a community of 180,000 in the heart of Kentucky's famed Blue Grass region. Renowned as the world capital of the thoroughbred horse industry and known also as the world's largest loose-leaf tobacco market.
FOUNDED-1865 ENROLLMENT-(On campus-19,447)
PRESIDENTDr. Otis A. Singletary (At 13 Community Colleges 13,000)
VICE-PRESIDENT FOR ADMINISTRATION-Dr. Alvin A. Morris VICE-PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS-Dr. Lewis Cochran VICE-PRESIDENT, BUSINESS AFFAIRSLawrence E. Forgy, Jr. VICE-PRESIDENT, MEDICAL CENTER-Dr. Peter Bosomworth VICE-PRESIDENT, STUDENT AFFAIRS-Dr. Robert G. Zumwinkle VICE-PRESIDENT, COMMUNITY COLLEGES-Dr. Maurice Stanley Wall FACULTY CHAIRMAN OF ATHLETICSDr. William Matthews
(UK's faculty representative to Southeastern Conference) VICE-PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY RELATIONS-Dr. Ray Hornback DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICES-Bernie Vonderheide CONFERENCESoutheastern (member since founding in 1933) BAND-Varsity(Director-Wm. Harry Clarke) FIGHT SONG-"On, On, U. of K." STADIUM-Commonwealth Stadium (56,696) GYMNASIUMMemorial Coliseum (capacity 11,500)
Athletics Staff
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICSHarry C. Lancaster (Georgetown '32) Assistant to Director-Mrs. Louise Gilchrist Assistant to Director for Academic Affairs-Frank Downing Administrative Assistant-Frank Ham
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS-Cliff Hagan
HEAD BASKETBALL COACH-Joe B. Hall (Kentucky '55)
ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY-Mrs. Jane Rollins
ASSISTANT COACHES-Dick Parsons, Leonard Hamilton, Lynn Nance
HEAD COACHES OTHER SPORTS-Football: Fran Curci, Baseball: Tuffy Home, Track and Cross Country: Ken Olson, Tennis: Graddy Johnson, Golf: Dan McQueen, Swimming and Water Polo: Wynn Paul, Rifle: Major Ray Bagby, Wrestling: Fletcher Carr.
TICKET SALES MANAGER-A1 Morgan ACCOUNTANT-Jan Smits
TRAINERRay Don Wilson
BASKETBALL EQUIPMENT MANAGER-Bill Keightley
SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR-Russell Rice (Kentucky '51)
ASSISTANT SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR-Jack Perry nl [< k I ACTS ON KENTUCKY BASKETBALL
NCAA CliAMPTlONS Four Times (1948, '49, "51, '58) in 21 Appearances. 32 Victories.
NIT CHAMPIONS-1946. SUGAR BOWL CHAMPIONS-Five Times.
UK INVITATIONAL CHAMPIONS Fifteen Times in 21 Tournaments. SEC CHAMPIONS Record 28 Times Since 1933. (Last in 1973.) WORLD CHAMPIONS  1948 Olympic Games.
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS-1966. NATIONAL CHAMPIONS BY POLLS-Six Times Since 1949. ALL-TIME RECORD-Won 1,117, Lost 357, Tied 1 in 71 Seasons. KENTUCKY ALL-AMERICANS-26 Players Honored 38 Times. ALL-SOUTH EASTERN-5 3 Players Honored 94 Times. PROFESSIONALS-32 Players Entered Ranks.
MEMORIAL COLISEUM (11,500) - Home Floor Since 1950 (Won 284, Lost 37).
RECORD HIGH POINTS-143 vs. Georgia (Neutral Site) '56-At Home 121 vs. Mississippi '71.
INDIVIDUAL HIGH-53 By Dan Issel in 1970 vs. Mississippi at Oxford.
BIGGEST VICTORY MARGIN-77 vs. Georgia in  1956-At Home, 53 vs. Georgia Tech '56, Georgia '59.
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WILDCATS CARVE INCREDIBLE POST-SEASON TOURNAMENT RECORD
Since Kentucky made its first appearance in a major post season basketball tournament in 1942, no graduating class has ever missed the opportunity to play in either the NCAA or National Invitational Tournaments.
In fact, the Wildcats have an incredible record which has seen them miss only seven times (1943, '53, '54, '60, '63, '65, '67 and '74) in the past 32 years. Two of those misses were in 1953, when they sat out a season, and '54, when the undefeated National Champions won an automatic NCAA berth but declined the bid.
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The University has had only two undefeated seasons in its illustrious basketball history. The first was 9-0 in 1911-12, the other 25-0 in 1953-54.
5 DR. OTIS A. SINGLETARY
President, University of Kentucky
Established in 1865 under provisions of the Morrill Act of 1862 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky University, the University of Kentucky today has approximately 33,000 students in the 15 academic colleges and Graduate School on the central campus in Lexington and in its 13 community colleges.
In 1878, the school separated from Kentucky University and became an independent institution supported by the state, and since 1916 has been known as the University of Kentucky, embodying the functions of teaching, public service and research.
Situated in the famed Blue Grass region of Central Kentucky, the University maintains several research institutes whose work increasingly affects state and nation: the Tobacco and Health Research Institute, the Office of Business Development and Government Services, the Institute for Mining and Minerals Research, and the Water Resources Institute.
It is fully accredited in its respective colleges and departments by all of the major professional societies and educational organizations.
President since 1969 has been Dr. Otis A. Singletary, who came from the University of Texas, Austin, where he was executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. He earlier had been director of the Job Corps program for the Office of Economic Opportunity, and chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
He is the eighth president of the University. Unique recognition of his service to the institution came recently from the UK Alumni Association, which presented him its Alumni Service Award-an honor rarely bestowed upon a non-alumnus of the University. HARRY C. LANCASTER
Director of A thletics
The University of Kentucky athletic program has realized a steady growth since Harry C. Lancaster was named athletic director six years ago, with Commonwealth Stadium representing only one of many accomplishments during that period.
While the finishing touches were being put on the stadium last year, workmen on the other side of the campus completed a new ceiling in Memorial Coliseum and then reworked and painted the floor where many national basketball champions and Ail-Americans have been produced.
The ceiling went with a new roof previously installed. In addition, a Nautilus weight system has been added to the improved weight rooms and half of a regulation football practice field has been covered with artificial turf at Shively Sports Center.
There have been many other improvements, including an all-weather surface on the running track, where a press box and additional seats also were added, and a scoreboard for the baseball field, to name a few.
From 1946 until 1970, Lancaster was known primarily as the No. 1 assistant to basketball Coach Adolph Rupp. His freshman teams compiled 204 victories against only 57 losses. He served 16 seasons as head baseball coach and gave the school its winningest seasons in history by compiling identical 18-8 marks in 1959-60.
A native of Paris (Ky.), he lettered in football, basketball and baseball under Coach Blanton Collier at Paris High. At Georgetown College, he lettered in football, basketball and baseball for tliroc years and twice captained the football and basketball teams. He was Student Body president and president of Kappa Alpha Social Fraternity his senior year.
He served as assistant football and basketball coach at Georgetown College (1932-33) and Paris High School (1933-34), head basketball coach at Bagdad High School (1934-36) and principal and coach at (lleneyne High School (1936-42).
Lancaster earned his master's degree in 1943 while serving as a part-time assistant in basketball and full-time instructor in Physical Education from Sept. 1942 until March 1944, when he entered the U.S. Navy as a Seaman 2/c. He advanced to lieutenant (SG) and returned to the University in March, 1946, in time to assist Rupp in winning UK's four NCAA basketball championships of 1948-49-51 and '58.
Traveled in Greece in 195 1
In his own right, Lancaster has traveled extensively and received a signal honor when he was invited to prepare the Greek National Basketball Team for the 1968 Olympics. A return six-week tour in Athens was cancelled when Lancaster was asked to stay home and serve as acting athletics chief of staff.
Lancaster had traveled to Greece in the summer of 1951 on a special athletic assignment for the U.S. State Department. The mission called for him to act as an advisor to Greek Basketball Federation officials in Olympic procedures and other matters. He also conducted numerous clinics and coaching schools and gave public lectures on the cage sport. During the summer of 1962, he helped Coach Rupp conduct clinics for Army personnel in the Far East Theater and worked with Rupp on the team's Middle East Tour in 1966 and a clinic in Germany in the summer of 1967.
CLIFFORD O. HAGAN. Assistant Director of Athletics
Cliff Hagan became Assistant Director of Athletics at his Alma Mater June 1, 1972. After a glittering basketball career, during which he was twice a consensus AU-American at UK and a five time All-Pro with the St. Louis Hawks of the NBA, he returned to Lexington in 1970 and went into private business. He later became President of a successful restaurant chain, Cliff Hagan Ribeyc, Inc.
During Hagan's college career, the Wildcats won 86 of 91 games and the 1951 NCAA championship. He was co-captain of the 1954 team, which with a 25-0 record, became the University's second unbeaten team.
A native of Owensboro, Ky., Hagan gained immortality in Kentucky High School annals when he scored a then-record 41 points in the final game of the 1949 State Tournament to give the Red Devils the championship over Lexington Lafayette. During a 10-year career at St. Louis, the Hawks won the NBA Western Division six times and defeated the Boston Celtics in 1958 for the World Championship. He joined the Dallas Chaparrals as player-coach in 1968 and was selected as Texas Professional Coach-of-the-Year. He wound up his playing career only 92 points shy of a career total 15,000 points.
8 An active participant in civic affairs in the community, Hagan is a member of Kiwanis, and is deeply involved with the American Cancer Society, of which he is President of the layette ( ounly Hoard, Statu Hoard Chairman ol Ihe Kentucky Division, and I lay