Name Those Cats (Basketball Trivia)

by FortyYearCatFan on Oct 25, 2009 10:25 AM EDT Comment 19 comments

As a team, we won 34 games by an average margin of 30 points per game.

We had 12 players on our roster who were either drafted by or played in the NBA.

However, we did NOT win a national championship despite most observers considering us the best team in the nation and (at the time) the best UK team ever.

Most of us went on to even bigger fame and glory in subsequent years.

Can you Name Those Cats?

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Is 'Wah Wah' one of them? :-)

Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!

by a2d2 on Oct 25, 2009 11:30 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yep

But only 3rd best on the team IMO behind Groza and Beard.

by FortyYearCatFan on Oct 25, 2009 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

1946-47 NIT Runners Up

That team was nasty, or so my great papaw said.

Seriously though, they put some serious beat downs on some teams. Bet they were fun to watch.

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by Ontherocks on Oct 25, 2009 11:32 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

that's who I think it is

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by a2d2 on Oct 25, 2009 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think you guys are right.....1947....

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by ALLBLUCAT on Oct 25, 2009 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yep

Correct.

IMO they are UK’s best team that did not win national title.

by FortyYearCatFan on Oct 25, 2009 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

1997..?

lost in OT to ’zona.

Steelers fan 1st! UK is my 2nd love.

by vinceuk1 on Oct 25, 2009 12:25 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Good Guess But

Missed it by 50 years. (j/k)

97 had 35 W.

by FortyYearCatFan on Oct 25, 2009 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah,

my guess is the ‘46-’47 team, as well. It has to be.

That team won the SEC tourney in Louisville, but ended up losing in the NIT (the “it” tourney at that time) that was held in New York to Utah, of all teams.

Fun post, Forty. And yes, I cheated, I totally looked it up. ; )

by BigSkyCat on Oct 25, 2009 12:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I know that 6 went on to play for Indianapolis....not sure where the rest went.....

a small bit more trivia……the coach of the Olympians was also a Wildcat…..who was he??

Hint…..he was more than just their coach……

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by ALLBLUCAT on Oct 25, 2009 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Guessing?

Cliff Barker?

by FortyYearCatFan on Oct 25, 2009 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

BINGO!......the man knows his Cats.......

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by ALLBLUCAT on Oct 25, 2009 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

indeed he does :-)

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by a2d2 on Oct 25, 2009 5:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

My Father-In-Law Was On The Utah Team A Few Years Earlier

But he dropped out of school to enlist in the WW2 effort.

Arnie Ferrin remains his good friend to this day. Ferrin told me (at his 80th birthday party) that Alex Groza was his toughest opponent ever, tougher than Mikan even.

Ferrin is the only 4-time A-A ever. Unless Tyler H tied him at UNC from 2006-09.

by FortyYearCatFan on Oct 25, 2009 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sometimes I forget that the popular powerhouse college basketball teams of today are not necessarily the same teams of much earlier times (like the ‘40’s) and that the Utah men’s college basketball team (and some of the players) probably did have their day in the sun. : )

by BigSkyCat on Oct 25, 2009 1:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

would that be

in 1954 we went undefeated 25-0 but rupp refused to play tournment because many players had technically graduated during preseason but no nba. But i think you are talking about 1996 The untouchables who include Derek Anderson , Tony Delk , Walter McCarty , Ron Mercer , Nazr Mohammed , Mark Pope , Jeff Sheppard , Wayne Turner , Antoine Walker. And im 26 been a fan all my life.

by uk1156 on Oct 27, 2009 12:45 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

1947

Not 1996.

Good try.

by FortyYearCatFan on Oct 27, 2009 6:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

by the way

i have a uk flag at home with sheppard and mohammed’s autograph on it.

by uk1156 on Oct 27, 2009 12:47 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

in 1947 ..

only 3 players were drafted from that team to nba Joe Holland, Ken Rollins, and Jack Parkinson. we played second in nit 46-47 year that was rupps runts team

by uk1156 on Nov 11, 2009 3:10 AM EST reply actions 0 recs