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Basketball Superiority

Posted on March 20, 2013 at 06:21 PM.

Kentucky basketball cumulative all time statistics
All Time Wins: 2111 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
All Time Winning Percentage: .762 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
NCAA Championships: 8 (NCAA rank #2)[74]
NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 11 (NCAA rank #2)[74]
NCAA Final Four Appearances: 15 (NCAA rank #3)[74]
NCAA Final Four Games Played: 26 (NCAA rank #4)[74]
NCAA Final Four Wins: 19 (NCAA rank #2)[74]
NCAA Elite-8 Appearances: 34 (NCAA rank #1)[74]
NCAA Sweet-16 Appearances: 39 (NCAA rank #1)[3]
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 52 (NCAA rank #1)[74]
NCAA Tournament Wins: 111 (NCAA rank #1)[74]
NCAA Tournament Games Played: 157 (NCAA rank #1)[74]
NCAA Tournament Winning Percentage: .707 (NCAA rank #5)[74]
Total Postseason Tournament Appearances (NCAA and NIT): 61 (NCAA rank #1)[74]
NBA Draft Picks: 106 (NCAA rank #1)[35]
All-Americans: 55 (NCAA rank #1)[75]
All-American Total Selections: 85 (NCAA rank #1)[75]
First Team Consensus All-Americans: 19 (NCAA rank #2)[76]
First Team Consensus All-American Total Selections: 24 (NCAA rank #4)[76]
AP Poll Top-20/25 Weeks Ranked All Time: 788 (NCAA rank #2)[77]
AP Poll Top-10 Weeks Ranked All Time: 628 (NCAA rank #1)[77]
AP Poll Top-5 Weeks Ranked All Time: 417 (NCAA rank #1)[77]
AP Poll No. 1 Weeks Ranked All Time: 99 (NCAA rank #4)[77]
Final AP Poll Top-25 Finishes: 48 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Final AP Poll Top-20 Finishes: 48 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Final AP Poll Top-15 Finishes: 43 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Final AP Poll Top-10 Finishes: 40 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Final AP Poll Top-5 Finishes: 28 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Final AP Poll #1 Finishes: 9 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-25 Finishes: 46 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-20 Finishes: 45 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-15 Finishes: 42 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-10 Finishes: 38 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-5 Finishes: 29 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll #1 Finishes: 8 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Total 20-Win Seasons: 57 (NCAA rank #1)[76]
Total 25-Win Seasons: 31 (NCAA rank #2)[76]
Total 30-Win Seasons: 13 (NCAA rank #1)[76]
Total 35-Win Seasons: 5 (NCAA rank #1)[76]
Average Victories Per Season Played: 19.190909 (NCAA rank #3)[78]
Average Losses Per Season Played: 6.0090909 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Total Winning Seasons: 93 (NCAA rank #2)[76]
Total Non-Losing Seasons (.500 or better): 96 (NCAA rank #2)[76]
Total Coaches With a NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank #1)[74]
Total Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 3 (NCAA rank #1)[74]
Total Coaches With a NCAA Final Four Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank #2)[74]
Total Coaches With Multiple NCAA Final Four Appearances: 4 (NCAA rank #2)[74]
Total Decades With a NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 6 (NCAA rank #2)[74]
Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 4 (NCAA rank #1)[74]
Total Decades With a NCAA Final Four Appearance: 7 (NCAA rank #1)[74]
Total Decades With Multiple Final Four Appearances: 5 (NCAA rank #1)[74]
Total Coaches With a NCAA Championship: 5 (NCAA rank #1)[74]
Total Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championships: 1 (NCAA rank #2)[74]
Total Decades With a NCAA Championship: 5 (NCAA rank #1)[74]
Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Championships: 3 (NCAA rank #1)[74]
Total Decades #1 in Total Wins (since 1930): 1 (NCAA rank #2)[73]
Total Decades Top-5 in Total Wins (since 1930): 4 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Total Decades Top-10 in Total Wins (since 1930): 7 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Total Decades #1 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 2 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Total Decades Top-5 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 6 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Total Decades Top-10 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 7 (NCAA rank #1)[73]
Conference Regular Season Championships: 47 (NCAA rank #2)[3]
Conference Tournament Championships: 28 (NCAA rank #1)[3]
National Attendance Titles: 24 (NCAA rank #1)[73]

(Of the 64 major categories listed above, Kentucky is #1 in 44 of them, #2 in 14 of them, #3 in 2 of them, #4 in 3 of them, and #5 in 1 of them.)

Kentucky can also lay claim to several individual achievements for both players and coaches:
13 players winning NBA Championships a total of 18 times
10 players named NBA All-Star a total of 17 times
12 Olympic Gold Medal winners
8 Naismith Hall-of-Fame members
5 players named National Player-of-the-Year
6 head coaches named National Coach-of-the Year a total of 12 times
7 head coaches named SEC Coach-of-the-Year a total of 21 times
132 players named All-Conference a total of 225 times
77 players named All-Conference Tournament a total of 113 times
12 players named Conference Player-of-the-Year a total of 14 times
14 players named Conference Tournament MVP a total of 15 times
18 players named All-NCAA Final Four a total of 21 times
48 players named All-NCAA Regional a total of 62 times
11 players named NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Player a total of 12 times
5 players named NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player a total of 6 times
72 players who played in the NBA at least one season
60 1000-point scorers
48 players named McDonald's All-American
11 times a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament[2][35]

Kentucky also holds several other NCAA records and various additional accomplishments:
Kentucky has 2 NIT Titles (1946, 1976), 2 Helms Titles (1933, 1954), 2 undefeated seasons (1912, 1954), 5 Sugar Bowl Tournament Championships (1937, 1939, 1949, 1956, 1963), a league best all time SEC regular season record of 915-255 (.782). and a league best all time SEC Tournament record of 119-24 (.832).[2]
Kentucky holds the NCAA record for Consecutive Non-Losing Seasons (60), for Consecutive Home Court Victories (129), and for Total Victories in a Season (38).[73]
Kentucky plays in the nation's largest basketball arena (Rupp Arena, capacity: 23,500), and has both the nation's largest radio and television affiliate networks.[2][3]
Kentucky has made a 3-point basket in 861 consecutive games (3rd-most all time), has won 17 of the last 18 National Attendance Titles (including the last 8 in a row and 25 overall) is the only school to have multiple NCAA (8) and NIT (2) Championships, is the only school to have 5 different NCAA Championship coaches, is the only school to win NCAA Championships in 5 different decades, and is the only school to win multiple NCAA Championships in 3 different decades.[73]
Kentucky has played before the largest regulation basketball game crowd in history (78,129), and the largest Final Four crowd in history (75,421).[3][73]
Kentucky was the first school (in 2010) to have 5 players selected in the 1st-Round of the NBA Draft, is the only school to have both the #1 and #2 picks in the NBA Draft during the same year (in 2012), is the only school to have 6 players drafted in the first two rounds of the NBA draft during the same year(in 2012), is the only school to have two different head coaches win a NCAA Championship within the same decade (the 1990s), and was also the first school to reach both the 1000-win and 2000-win victory plateaus.[3][73]

Any questions?

Comments

# 1 Hurricanes919 @ Mar 21

I have a question. Robert Morris?

# 2 Jimbo614 @ Mar 21

Robert Morris?
What's a Robert Morris?
About every ten years, some nobody knocks off UK, and the media and UK haters go wild. "It's the end of Kentucky Basketball!" " The Dynasty is over!". It happens.
Bottomline is that Kentucky Basketball isnt a Dynasty, It's an Empire!
UK is the closest thing in sports to the Roman Empire.
What Robert Morris did the other night, with all due respect, is the equivelent of the Barbarians starting a trash fire in Gaul. It means nothing to the big picture.
When Kentucky gets hit with adversity, they always come back bigger and better. This is no exception.
We do it because WE can!

# 3 Hurricanes919 @ Mar 21

I'm just pickin. I'm a Duke fan. You could say, "What is Lehigh?" I guess.