xt70k649pj7v https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt70k649pj7v/data/mets.xml University of Kentucky 1974  athletic publications English University of Kentucky Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. University of Kentucky Basketball Media Guides (Men) Basketball, 1974 text Basketball, 1974 1974 2012 true xt70k649pj7v section xt70k649pj7v  KENTUCKY VARSITY. BASKETBALL SCHEDULE   1973 7-1
Date Opponent Site 19 7 3
Dec.    1    MIAMI (OHIO) ................................................................................ Home
Dec.    3    Kansas ............................................................................................ Away
Dec.    8    Indiana (Freedom Hall) .............................................................. Louisville
Dec.  10    North Carolina ................................................................................ Away
Dec.  14    Iowa ................................................................................................ Away
Dec. 21     UKITDec. 21     UKITOhio State vs. Stanford, .......................... Home
Kentucky vs. Dartmouth
Dec. 22    UKITConsolation Game; Finals .................................................... Home
Dec. 29    Notre Dame (Freedom Hall) ........................................................ Louisville
19 7 4
Jan.    5    Louisiana State (TV) ........................................................................ Away
Jan.    7    GEORGIA ........................................................................................ Home
Jan. 12    AUBURN ........................................................................................ Home
Jan. 14   Tennessee ........................................................................................ Away
Jan. 19    MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................... Home
Jan. 21    Alabama .......................................................................................... Away
Jan. 26    Florida ............................................................................................ Away
Jan. 28    VANDERBILT .................................................................................. Home
Feb.    2   Mississippi State (TV) ...................................................................... Away
Feb.    4    LOUISIANA STATE ........................................................................ Home
Feb.    9    Georgia ............................................................................................ Away
Feb. 1 1    Auburn ............................................................................................ Away
Feb. 16    TENNESSEE .................................................................................... Home
Feb. 18    Mississippi ...................................................................................... Away
Feb. 23    ALABAMA (TV) .............................................................................. Home
Feb. 25    FLORIDA ........................................................................................ Home
Mar.   2    Vanderbilt ........................................................................................ Away
Mar.   4    MISSISSIPPI STATE ........................................................................ Home
COVER PICTUREShown in front of Memorial Coliseum are coach Joe B. Hall and the returning starters from last year's SEC champions. Standing from left: Copt. Ronnie Lyons, Kevin Grevey, Mike Flynn and Jimmy Don Conner. University Archives Margaret I. King Library - North University of Kentucky
University o^&Gf&VckUsuy 40506 Basketball Facts  1973-74
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Ail-Americans, All-NCAA 33-34
All Conference 32
Athletic Director Lancaster 7-8 Athletics Association
Board of Directors 8
Staff Members 4 Attendance Records       Inside Back
Award Winners (Annual) 30-32 Basketball Staff
Coach Hall 11-13 Assts. Parsons, Grant,
Hotfield 14-15 Grad Assts. Dinwiddie, Trivette,
Student Trn., Mgrs., Rollins 16
Coaches Through Years 21
Coliseum 38-39
Fabulous Five 102 Freshman Basketball (J.V.)
Record  All-Time) 60
Results, 1972-73 57
Roster 51
Schedule 57
SigneesSketches 56-57
Statistics1972-73 59
Team Picture 58
Helm's Selections 81
Home Floor Losses 20
Lcttermen Through Years 82-83
Modern Record (1946 to Date) 35-37
NCAA Titlists 21
Nickname, Origin of 49 Opponents Information
Highs and Lows 80-81 Record vs. 1973-74
Opponents 72-74
Record vs. All Opponents 84-86
Scouting Reports 61-71
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Press-Radio-TV
Kentucky Outlets 3 Working Information 2
Southeastern Conference
Champions By Years 18 Composite Schedule,
1973-74 103-104 Composite Standing, Kentucky In SEC,
Final SEC Standings1972-73 19 Television Series 18 Sports InformationRice, Perry 17 Tournament Trail 27-29 UKIT 23 27
University of Kentucky
General Information 4 President Singletary 6 Varsity Basketball
Background Briefs 40-46 Game By Game Rebounding 54 Game By Game Scoring 53 Outlook1973-74 9 Quick Facts 5 RecordsTeam, Individual,
Misc., Memorial Coliseum 75-81 (Set in 1972-73) 102 Retired Jerseys 47 Roster 50 Schedule Inside Front
ScorersTop All Time,
Regular Season 22 ScoresGame By Game 87-101 Season Record1972-73 49 Statistics1972-73 52 Team Picture 48 Time PlayedHigh Game 55 TV-Delayed Inside Back
Wildcats At A Glance 10
Compiled By Jack Perry, Asst. Sports Information Director RUSSELL RICE, Director of Sports Information TO THE PRESS AND RADIO-TV
Here is your copy of the 1973-74 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 AC. 606257-3838, 257-3839).
RUSSELL RICE JACK PERRY
Director of Sports Information Asst. Director of Sports Information
MISS ANNA B. NEAL Secretary
Athletic Office Phones:
Harry C. Lancaster  (606) 258-2881
Cliff Hagan  (606) 258-561 1
Coach Joe B. Hall  (606) 257-1916 or 257-1917
Asst. Coaches Dick Parsons and Boyd Grant  (606) 257-3640
Asst. Coach Jim Hatfield  (606) 258-8845
Information
WORKING TICKETSAddress 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 DOOREntrance to the area set aside for press and radio should be via th Press Door located to the extreme left of the Coliseum entrance foyer.
FRESS ROOMLocated under west stands.  Entrance near press door.
COMPSNo individual game allotment.
TELECOPIERSDue 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.
WESTERN UNIONWire facilities are available at court side. Please advise if you will be filing from the Coliseum and also notify manager of Western Union in Lexington.
RADIO BROADCASTSBroadcasting rights to UK games are assigned exclusively to the G. H. Johnston Agency, 59 East 54th Street, New York, N. Y. 10022 (Telephone 421-8055). One free reciprocal outlet is guaranteed opponent schools visiting Lexington. Any additional stations must clear through the Johnston Agency and the UK Director of Broadcasting, Mr. Pete Manchikes (257-2655). Working passes will be supplied approved stations by Sports Information Office.
SERVICESWorking 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.
2 KENTUCKY PRESS-RADIO TELEVISION OUTLETS
Lexington:
Lexington Herald-Leader Tom Easterling
John McGill D. G- Fifzmeurice 227 West Short Street Lexington, Ky. 40507
WVLK Radio Ralph Hacker
P.O. Box 1559 Lexington. Ky. 40501
WLAP Sports Jeff Marks
177 North Upper Street Lexington, Ky. 40507
WBLG Radio Sports 130 Barr Street Lexington. Ky. 40507
WLEX-TV
Tom Hammond, Director PO. Box 1457 Lexington, Ky. 40S0I
WKYT-TV Denny Treese
PO. Box 655 Lexington. Ky. 40501
WBLG-TV
Cart (Hoot) Combs, Director Pat Prosser P.O. Box 1748 Lexington, Ky. 40501
Bob Cooper Associated Press 227 West Short Street Lexington, Ky. 40507
Dick Kimmons
UPI Sports
157 Market 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 Fenlon
Jim Terhune
Tev Laudeman
Marvin Gay
525 West Broadway
Louisville, Ky. 40202
WHAS & WHAS-TV Cawood Ledford Mike James P.O. Box 1084 Louisville, Ky. 40201
Associated Press 525 West Broadway
Louisville. Ky. 40201
Bob Weston UPI Sports 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 Sports Dave Conrad P.O. Box 6218 Louisville, Ky. 40216
WINN Radio Sports Third and Broadway
Louisville, Ky. 40202
WAKY Radio Sports 558 South Fifth Street Louisville. Ky. 40204
State:
Ashland Independent Mike Reliford Sports Department 226 17th Street Ashland, Ky. 41101
Park City News Sports Department 813 College Street Bowling Green, Ky. 42101
Tribune-Times Sports Ky. and Monroe Streets Corbin, Ky. 40701
Post & Times-Star Sports Andy Cox
421 Madison Avenue Covington, Ky. 41011
Advocate-Messenger Sports Department Danville, Ky. 40422
State-Journal Sports Paul Weddle 321 West Main Street Frankfort, Ky. 40601
The Times Sports
301 South Green Street
Glasgow, Ky. 42141
Gleaner-Journal Sports 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 Sports Department 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 Sports Editor Chester Avenue Middlesboro, Ky. 40965
Messenger and Inquirer Sports Department 1401 Frederica Street Owensboro, Ky. 42301
Sun-Democrat Sports Jerry Atkins 408 Kentucky Avenue Paducah, Ky. 42001
Paris Daily Enterprise Dicky Baldwin 23 East 4th Street Paris, Ky. 40361
Ken Green Register Sports South Second Street Richmond, Ky. 40475
Bill Bowden Commonwealth-J ournal 102 North Maple Street Somerset, Ky. 42501
The Winchester Sun
Neal Bryant
Sports Department
Wall and Cleveland Streets
Winchester, Ky. 40391
3 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
General Information
LOCATIONLexington, 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. FOUNDED1865 ENROLLMENT(On campus20,653)
PRESIDENTDr. Otis A. Singletary (At 13 Community Colleges12,959)
VICE-PRESIDENT FOR ADMINISTRATIONDr. Alvin A. Morris VICE-PRESIDENT, BUSINESS AFFAIRSLawrence E. Forgy, Jr. VICE PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY RELATIONSDr. Ray Hornback VICE-PRESIDENT, MEDICAL CENTERDr. Peter Bosomworth VICE-PRESIDENT, STUDENT AFFAIRSDr. Robert G. Zumwinkle VICE-PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRSDr. Lewis Cochran VICE-PRESIDENT, COMMUNITY COLLEGESDr. Maurice Stanley Wall
FACULTY CHAIRMAN OF ATHLETICSDr. William Matthews (UK's faculty representative to Southeastern Conference)
DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICESTom Duncan
CONFERENCESoutheastern (member since founding in 1933)
BANDVarsity (DirectorWm. Harry Clarke)      FIGHT SONG"On, On, U. of K."
STADIUMCommonwealth Stadium (58,000)
GYMNASIUMMemorial Coliseum (capacity 11,500)
Athletics Staff
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICSHarry C. Lancaster (Georgetown '32) Assistant to DirectorMrs. Louise Gilchrist
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICSCliff Hagan
HEAD BASKETBALL COACHJoe B. Hall (Kentucky '55)
ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARYMrs. Jane Rollins
ASSISTANT COACHESDick Parsons, Boyd Grant, and Jim Hatfield
HEAD COACHES OTHER SPORTSFootball: Fran Curci, Baseball: Tuffy Home, Track: Paul Ward, Cross Country: Ken Olsen, Tennis: Grady Johnson, Golf: Dan McQueen, Swimming and Water Polo: Wynn Paul, Rifle: Major Ray Bagby.
TICKET SALES MANAGERAl Morgan ACCOUNTANTJan Smits
ACADEMIC ADVISORDr. Robert P. Moore
CO-ORDINATOR OF FACILITIESClarence Underwood
BASKETBALL EQUIPMENT MANAGERKenneth Trivette
SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTORRussell Rice (Kentucky '51)
ASSISTANT SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTORJack Perry
4 QUICK FACTS ON KENTUCKY BASKETBALL
NCAA CHAMPIONSFour Times (1948, '49, '51, '58) in 21 Appearances. 32 Victories.
NIT CHAMPIONS1946. SUGAR BOWL CHAMPIONSFive Times.
UK INVITATIONAL CHAMPIONSFourteen Times in 20 Tournaments. SEC CHAMPIONSRecord 28 Times Since 1933. (Last in 1973.) WORLD CHAMPIONS1948 Olympic Games.
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS1966. NATIONAL CHAMPIONS BY POLLSSix Times Since 1949. ALL-TIME RECORDWon 1,104, Lost 344, Tied 1 in 70 Seasons. KENTUCKY ALL-AMERICANS25 Players Honored 37 Times. ALL-SOUTHEASTERN33 Players Honored 93 Times. PROFESSIONALS32 Players Entered Ranks.
MEMORIAL COLISEUM (11,500)  Home Floor Since  1950 (Won 275, Lost 34).
RECORD HIGH POINTS143 vs. Georgia (Neutral Site) '56At Home 121 vs. Mississippi '71.
INDIVIDUAL HIGH53 By Dan Issel in 1970 vs. Mississippi at Oxford.
BIGGEST VICTORY MARGIN77 vs. Georgia in 1956At 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 and '67) in the past 31 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.
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 or Kentucky
THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY . . . The State Is Our Campus
Located in Lexington, an urban community of 1 80,000 population in the heart of Kentucky's famed Blue Grass region, University of Kentucky is a state-supported, land-grant institution which celebrated its centennial year in 1965.
The present school, which this fall enrolled 33,612 students and now offers instruction in 10 academic colleges plus a Graduate School and a Community College system of 13 centers, had its beginnings in 1865 when it was established as a part of old Kentucky University. This action by the State Legislature united sectarian and public education under one organization for the first time. Federal funds authorized under the Morrill Act were used to develop agriculture and mechanical arts within KU and, in 1878, A&M College was separated from KU to become a separate state institution on the general site of what is now the 706 acre main campus. Name changes in 1908 and 1916 resulted in the title by which the school is now known.
It is fully accredited in its respective colleges and departments by all of the major professional societies and educational organizations.
President of the University is Dr. Otis A. Singletary, who came to Lexington in 1969 from the University of Texas, Austin, where he was executive vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Dr. Singletary, who is eighth president of the University, served a total of eight years at Texas, progressing during seven (1954-61) of those years from instructor to professor, associate dean of Arts and Sciences and assistant to the president. Then for five years (1961-66), he was chancellor of the University of North Carolina, although he was on leave from October 1964 to January 1966 to serve as director of the Job Corps, Office of Economic Opportunity.
6 HARRY C. LANCASTER Director of Athletics
The athletics scene at the University of Kentucky has been in a constant state of improvement since Harry Lancaster was named athletic director in late 1968. While the finishing touches were being put to the new 58,000 Commonwealth Stadium late last summer, 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 All-Americans have been produced.
The new ceiling went with a new roof previously installed, the running track at Shively Sports Center has an all-weather surface, a press box and additional seating have been provided for track events, and baseball has a new scoreboard, just a few of the many other improvements realized under Lancaster's leadership.
In addition, more money has been allocated to spring sports, which have progressed steadily during the past five years, and wrestling has been added this year as a varsity sport.
Lancaster's affiliation with the University athletic program began in 1943, when he served as a part-time assistant in basketball while earning his master's degree. He came to the University in September 1941 as a full-time instructor in Physical Education and remained in that position 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 as an assistant to basketball coach Adolph Rupp.
From that time until 1970, he was top assistant on basketball teams that won four NCAA and many other championships. He also coached the Wildcat basketball freshmen, compiling a record of 204 victories against only 57 losses, and served 16 seasons as baseball coach, giving the school its winningest baseball seasons with 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, and then earned letters for three years in each
7 of those sports at Georgetown College, where he twice captained the football and basketball teams and was president of the Student Body and of Kappa Alpha Social Fraternity.
He was an 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 Gleneyrie High (1939-41).
In addition to receiving many honors and participating in clinics and coaching schools throughout the nation, Lancaster traveled to Greece in the summer of 1951 on a special athletic assignment for the U.S. State Department, a mission calling for him to act as an advisor to Greek Basketball Federation officials in Olympic procedures and other matters. During the summer of 1962, he helped Rupp conduct clinics for the Army personnel in the Far East Theater and he worked with Rupp on the Wildcats' Middle East Tour in 1966 and at a clinic in Germany in the summer of 1967.
He was invited to prepare the Greek National Basketball Team for the 1968 Olympics, but he cancelled the six-week tour after being named acting athletic director at the University.
Lancaster and his wife, Monie, are Life Members of the U.K. Alumni Association.  He is an Honorary Life Member of the K-Men's Association.
ATHLETICS AT KENTUCKY
Kentucky's athletic program, a well-balanced and ambitious activity featuring intercollegiate competition in ten different sports, is organized under the Department of Athletics and a corporation known as the University of Kentucky Athletics Association.
The program is conducted without overemphasis or sacrifice of educational objectives and in strict compliance with the rules of the University, the Southeastern Conference and the National Collegiate Athletics Association.
A board of directors, headed by the President of the University in the capacity of chairman, maintains over-all policy supervision of the athletic program.
In addition to the UK President, board officers include the Vice-President for Student Affairs as vice-chairman and Dr. W. L. Matthews in the capacity of secretary. Fourteen other men, drawn from the University faculty and the general public, also serve on the board as appointees of the president as do two student representatives.
Supervising the steady growth and balanced development of the athletic program is Athletic Director Harry C. Lancaster.
The Association's Board of Directors is composed of the following:
Faculty Members
Marion McKenna, '76 Dr. Daniel R. Reedy, '76 Dr. Thomas Brower, '73 Dr. N. J. Pisacano, '74 Dr. Stephen Diachun, '74 Dr. W. C. Royster, '74 Charles Roland, '75 Warren Walton, '75
Trustee Members
George Griffin, '75 Thomas P. Bell, '76
Mcmbcrs-at- Large
Albert B. Chandler, '76 Robert H. Hillenmeyer,
Alumni Members
Dr. Ralph Angelucci, '75 James H. Pence, '75
Ex Officio Members
Dr. Otis A. Singletary,
Chairman Dr. Ray Hornback
L. E. Forgy, Jr. Dr. R. G. Zumwinkle 74 Dr. W. L. Matthews, Jr. Al Cummins
Student Members
Jim Flegle David LeMaster KENTUCKY BASKETBALL OUTLOOK, 1973-74
Kentucky's 1973 Southeastern Conference champions return four starters, including SEC Player of the Year Kevin Grevey, and six other lettermen, but filling the shoes of Jim Andrews, a 6-foot-1 1 two-time All-SEC center, is a major concern of coach Joe B. Hall, who won 1973 SEC Coach of the Year honors in his rookie year.
Larry Stamper, a 6-6 part-time starter at forward, is the only other loss from the team, which ran up a 20-8 overall and 14-4 SEC record and advanced to the finals of the NCAA Mideast Regional.
Expected to man the center post vacated by Andrews are Bob Guyette, a 6-8, 220 lb. junior who played forward last year, and Steve Lochmueller, a 6-7, 220 lb. junior battler who saw relief duty in 26 games.
Guyette started nine games early last year, and performed well in clutch situations, but he is happy to return to the position he has played throughout his career. He averaged 5.9 points and 4.7 rebounds while playing only 16 minutes per game in 27 contests.
Lochmueller, a competitive, physical type player, had a great effort against Alabama when he scored 18 points in a crucial late-season game. The strongboy, who can hook consistently with either hand, averaged 3.3 points and hit 53.1 per cent from the field. He led the team with 86.8 per cent from the charity line.
With either man, though, the Wildcats will face an imposing height deficiency.
"We will be a small team this year," Hall said. "We'll have to rely on speed, outside shooting and a pressure defense to carry us through a tough schedule."
Much of the scoring load will fall on the muscular shoulders of Grevey, a southpaw whose scoring binge in the last six games of the season lifted the Wildcats off the ropes to the conference championship.
Grevey averaged over 30 points a game during that stretch, including a 40-point effort against Georgia, the high individual performance of the year in the SEC. Despite shooting mainly from the outside, Grevey's percentage zoomed to 53.5 at season's end.
For his pressure performance, Grevey won first team All-SEC and SEC Sophomore-of-the-Year honors and led voting on both Alabama's and Tennessee's All-Opponent teams. The 6-5 junior was second leading Wildcat scorer with an 18.7 average.
Other starters are Jimmy Dan Conner, a 6-4 junior forward-guard who showed flashes of brilliance (1 1.2), Ronnie Lyons, a 5-10 senior who excels as a playmaker (9.2), and Mike Flynn, a 6-3 junior guard, who regained a starting slot the last 14 games and won defensive honors as well as scoring at a 13-point clip during that stretch.
"We should get a good offensive punch from Grevey, who played great the last part of the season," Hall said. "But we feel we'll still be a balanced scoring team. Lyons, who had a somewhat off-season last year, and Conner showed they have scoring ability, and so does Flynn, who emerged as a top defensive player."
The Wildcats should benefit from an experienced bench with all players seeing a considerable amount of playing time. Back from reserve roles, in addition to Guyette and Lochmueller, are seniors Ray Edleman (started one game), a 6-2 guard, and Rich Drewitz, a 6-7 forward, and junior Jerry Hale, a 6-0 guard, and G. J. Smith, a 6-7 forward who missed much of the season with a knee injury.
Up from the freshman team are sophomores Reggie Warford, a 6-1 guard who led the frosh with 17.5 points; David Miller, a 6-6 forward who averaged 15.5 points and 12.8 rebounds, and Roger Wood, a 6-IOV2 center, who, although ailing much of the season, averaged 12.8 points and 8.8 rebounds.
Incoming freshmen are Robert Mayhall, 6-8; Ernie Whitus, 6-7; Gary Utz, 6-2; Larry Johnson, 6-2; Merion Haskins, 6-3; and Joey Holland, 6-2.
Offensively, Hall will employ the single post and fast break as basics, but will include the stack and high-low post also. The basic defense will be man-to-man, with the 1-3-1 and pressure defense also utilized.
9 1973-74 WILDCATS AT A GLANCE
LETTERM EN LOST FROM 1972-73 TEAM (2)
Jim Andrews (6-11)Team's top scorer with 562 points . . . Twice All-SEC and All-NCAA Mid-East . . . Ranked I 2th in career scoring at UK with 1,320 points . . . Set five UK field goal shooting records.
Larry Stamper (6-6)Started seven games, averaging 3 points per game, but greatest asset was as a rugged battler on the boards, where he pulled down 4.5 per game . . . Scored 437 career points and grabbed 408 rebounds.
RETURNING LETTERMEN (10)
Jimmy Dan Conner (6-4 F-G)Third leading scorer with 11.2 per game ave., and in time played . . . Led team with 83 assists, pulled down 4.6 rebounds.
Rick Drewitz (6-7 F)-Saw relief duty in 17 games, scoring 16 points.
Ray Edelman (6-1 G)Started one game, saw action in 24 others, hitting 50.8 per cent and averaging 2.6 points.
Mike Flynn (6-3 G)Fourth in scoring with 255 points . . . Regained starting berth in 15th game which he lost after third game . . . Grabbed four rebounds per game.
Kevin Grevey (6-5 F)Second in scoring and rebounding with 18.7 points and six rebounds, and time played, 919 minutes in 28 games . . . Started 27 . . . Hit 53.5 per cent of shots . . . All-SEC, SEC Playear-of-the-Year, and SEC Sopho-more-of-the-Year.
Bob Guyette (6-9 C)Started nine games, playing in total of 27 . . . Averaged 5.9 points and 4.7 rebounds . . . Hit 46.0 per cent of shots.
Jerry Hale (6-0 G)Played in 25 games, scoring 31 points . . . Hit 35.5 per cent of shots.
Steve Lochmueller (6-6 F-C)Played in 26 games, mostly at center, scoring 85 points . . . Led team in free throw shooting, 86.8 per cent, and hit 53.1 per cent from field.
Ronnie Lyons (5-10 G)Two-year starter at guard, averaged 9.2 points, hitting 41.9 from the field . . . Committed fewest turnovers (46) of starters despite handling ball much of the time.
G. J. Smith (6-7 F)Sat out most of year after suffering a knee injury in December . . . Averaged 2.4 points in five games, hitting 54.6 per cent, mostly from outside.
UP FROM FRESHMAN TEAM (3)
David Miller (6-6 F)Led frosh with 12.8 rebounds, second in scoring with 15.5 points . . . Hit 91.7 per cent of free throws and 38.1 from the field.
Reggie Warford (6-0 G)Led frosh in scoring with 17.5 points, hitting 45.3 from the field.
Roger Wood (6-10!/i C)Third in scoring with 12.8 points, second in rebounding with 8.8.
10 JOE B. HALL Head Coach
Joe B. Hall returns as head coach of the Wildcats after a break-in year in which his team won 20 of 28 games, retained its UKIT title, repeated as SEC champion, advanced to the Mideast Regional Finals, and earned for him the 1972-73 SEC Bas- ketball Coach-of-the-Year title, and Coach and Athlete Magazine's Southeast Coach-of-the-Year, honors no other rookie coach has attained since the league was formed in 1933.
The honors were nothing new to Hall, who has made a habit of gathering such accolades during a coaching career that began at Shepherdsville (Ky.) High School in 1956 and continued through Regis College and Central Missouri State College before he returned to Lexington July 1, 1965, as an assistant to his old coach Adolph Rupp.
During his two-year term at Shepherdsville, Hall guided the Cougars to Mid-Kentucky Conference titles and was named "Coach-of-the-Year" in 1958. Moving into the collegiate field, he served one year as freshman coach and five years as head basketball coach at Regis in Denver, Colo., where he was also athletic director and earned special recognition as coach of the champion independent team in the area.
He coached Central Missouri (1964-65) to a 19-6 season and the Mules' first MIAA Conference championship since 1951, and to their first conference Christmas Tournament title in history. The string of coaching honors continued as he was named MIAA Coach-of-the-Year for 1964-65.
While at Regis, he coached the Capital Federal Denver host team in the 1964 AAU tournament and was selected as head coach of the AAU Stripes in the Olympic Trials at Jamaica, N.Y. He helped conduct basketball clinics for the U.S. Army in Anchorage and Fairbanks, AlasVa, in 1968, was Olympic Trials coach under Hank Iba at the Air Force Academy in Colorado in July 1972 and is a member of the 1976 Olympic Basketball Committee.
A native of Cynthiana, Ky., he lettered three years in basketball and football and was captain of both sports during his senior year in high school there. He played freshman basketball and one year of varsity basketball in the "Fabulous Five" era at the University before transferring to The University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., where he set a school single game scoring record and was team captain. Coach Lon Varnell, upon retirement, rated Hall as No. 1 of the three best players he ever coached.
After touring Europe with the Harlem Globetrotters in 1951, Hall returned to the University of Kentucky in 1955 to complete requirements for his B.A. and later (1964) received his M.A. at Colorado State University.
He returned to the University again in 1 965 as assistant coach, scout and head recruiter, and was instrumental in adopting a running-conditioning program which obviously paid huge dividends as the Wildcats capitalized on blazing speed and endurance to offset a lack of size and advance to the championship game of the NCAA Finals. Following that season, he successfully recruited six prep All-Americans, including Dan Issel, Kentucky's all-time scoring leader, to form the nucleus of a varsity team that won three straight conference championships, to be followed by three more consecutive championships for six in a row since he signed that first "crop" for the University.
When Harry C. Lancaster was named permanent athletic director Feb. 1, 1969, Hall became No. 1 varsity assistant and head freshman coach. His record with the Frosh was 60-15, including an undefeated (22-0) season (1971-72), which resulted in the Kittens being crowned National Freshman Champions by the Basketball News.
During his first season as head coach, the Wildcats were virtually counted out of the race after suffering four early conference losses. They won their last nine for the University's sixth SEC title in a row and 28th since the league was formed.
Hall is married to the former Katharine Dennis of Harrison Counnty, Ky. They have three childrenJudy, 17; Kathy, 16, and Stephen, 13.
12 THE KENTUCKY WAY, ANOTHER CHAMPIONSHIPThe scoreboard tells the storyKentucky whipped Tennessee, 86-81, in a wild seoson tinole which gave the Wildcats their sixth consecutive Southeastern Conference championship. Kentucky's usually sophisticated fans, worked into a frenzy by a young Wildcat team which fought a season-long uphill battle, lost their cool and let the world know who was No. I as Kentucky players gave SEC Coach-of-thc-Year Joe B. Hall his first victory ride as Wildcat coach. PARSONS GRANT HATFIELD
DICK PARSONS, Assistant Coach
Beginning his second year as head assistant and junior varsity coach, Parsons' talent and effervescent approach to the game is one reason for the Wildcats' success last year.
A dedicated and vigorous worker, he faced a bleak JV season las