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{"datasets_id": 2963, "wiki_id": "Q6389872", "sp": 14, "sc": 407, "ep": 14, "ec": 1080} | 2,963 | Q6389872 | 14 | 407 | 14 | 1,080 | Kenneth Blum | Commercial activities | for the use of dietary supplements to treat RDS. Blum licenses these patents through his company Synaptamine, Inc., which is incorporated in Austin, Texas. Supplements marketed in this way include Synaptamine, SyntaptaGenX, and Synaptose. Synaptamine has been licensed to LaVita RDS, a company based in Lehi, Utah, of which Blum was the Chief Scientific Officer. Synaptamine was subsequently marketed by Sanus Biotech, a company based in Austin, Texas. SynaptaGenX is licensed to NuPathways Inc., for whom Blum acts as Chief Neuroscience Advisor. Blum has also marketed dietary supplements that claim to assist weight loss, including PhenCal (licensed to Weider Nutrition) |
{"datasets_id": 2963, "wiki_id": "Q6389872", "sp": 14, "sc": 1080, "ep": 14, "ec": 1768} | 2,963 | Q6389872 | 14 | 1,080 | 14 | 1,768 | Kenneth Blum | Commercial activities | and SyntaptaLean (licensed to Nature's Plus). In the past, Blum has sold a variety of supplements and oral sprays through a website called DocBlumInc.
Blum markets a genetic test, the Genetic Addiction Risk Score (GARS), through his company IGENE LLC in partnership with Dominion Diagnostics, through LifeGen, Inc., where he is Chairman of the Board and Chief Scientific Officer, and via Geneus Health for whom he also acts Chief Scientific Officer and Chairman. It is claimed that GARS assesses the genetic predisposition toward RDS.
Until 2008 he was Chief Scientific Officer of Salugen Inc., another direct-to-consumer genetics testing company. After Blum's departure, |
{"datasets_id": 2963, "wiki_id": "Q6389872", "sp": 14, "sc": 1768, "ep": 14, "ec": 2239} | 2,963 | Q6389872 | 14 | 1,768 | 14 | 2,239 | Kenneth Blum | Commercial activities | Salugen continued under the leadership of Brian Meshkin, latterly CEO of Proove Biosciences, until its demise a year later. Blum is Scientific Director of the PATH foundation.
Geneus Health LLC and Dominion Diagnostics market genetic tests that purport to assess genetic predisposition toward addictive behavior. Since 2007 Dominion Diagnostics has paid more than $2 million in settlement of lawsuits that alleged fraudulent overbilling of Medicare and Medicaid. |
{"datasets_id": 2964, "wiki_id": "Q6389927", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 576} | 2,964 | Q6389927 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 576 | Kenneth C. Brugger | Life and career | Kenneth C. Brugger Life and career Brugger was born 16 June 1918 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He never attended college but had strong mechanical aptitude and mathematical skills. He worked as a mechanic in his father's garage until World War II, when he worked in the cryptology section of the U. S. Signal Corps. After the war he went to work for Jockey International and rose to the position of chief engineer for Jockey's worldwide knitting operations. He designed innovative knitting machines, including a compactor that minimized shrinkage in knitted underwear. Following a divorce in 1965 he moved to Mexico to |
{"datasets_id": 2964, "wiki_id": "Q6389927", "sp": 6, "sc": 576, "ep": 10, "ec": 590} | 2,964 | Q6389927 | 6 | 576 | 10 | 590 | Kenneth C. Brugger | Life and career & Monarch research | work as a textile consultant. Monarch research In 1972 Brugger was working in Mexico City. An amateur naturalist, he responded to a notice in a local newspaper written by Fred and Norah Urquhart, Canadian zoologists who were studying the migration patterns of monarch butterflies. The Urquharts had tracked the migration route as far as Texas, where it disappeared, and they thought it might continue into Mexico, so they were seeking volunteers to look for the butterflies.
In 1973, after seeing the ad, Brugger convinced Aguado Trail to search for the butterflies with him. They searched for several years, first as volunteers, |
{"datasets_id": 2964, "wiki_id": "Q6389927", "sp": 10, "sc": 590, "ep": 10, "ec": 1207} | 2,964 | Q6389927 | 10 | 590 | 10 | 1,207 | Kenneth C. Brugger | Monarch research | then as paid assistants to the Urquharts. In 1974 he married Aguado Trail, whom he called Cathy (a name she never liked), a fellow butterfly lover. On 2 January 1975, they finally found a mountaintop forest containing millions of resting monarch butterflies. Their discovery was reported as the cover story in National Geographic magazine in August 1976. Eventually a dozen such sites were located and were protected by the Mexican government as ecological reserves. The area is now a World Heritage Site known as the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. The sites are popular with ecotourists who admire the beauty |
{"datasets_id": 2964, "wiki_id": "Q6389927", "sp": 10, "sc": 1207, "ep": 14, "ec": 88} | 2,964 | Q6389927 | 10 | 1,207 | 14 | 88 | Kenneth C. Brugger | Monarch research & Recognition | of the massed butterflies. Ironically, Brugger could not appreciate that beauty; he was totally colorblind.
Brugger and Aguado Trail separated in 1991 and eventually divorced; they had one son. Recognition Brugger's search and discovery is dramatized in the IMAX film Flight of the Butterflies. |
{"datasets_id": 2965, "wiki_id": "Q6390584", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 565} | 2,965 | Q6390584 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 565 | Kenneth Payne | Kenneth Payne Kenneth Martin Payne (8 September 1912 β 24 April 1988) was a British rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Payne was the son of Dr John Ernest Payne, a surgeon, and his wife psychoanalyst Sylvia Payne. His father had rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1899 and 1900, and stroked the winning Leander Club four in the Stewards' Challenge Cup at Henley in 1900. Payne was educated at St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne and Eton College where as an outstanding all-round sportsman he was captain of rugby and captain of boats. He went on to Trinity |
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{"datasets_id": 2965, "wiki_id": "Q6390584", "sp": 4, "sc": 565, "ep": 4, "ec": 1167} | 2,965 | Q6390584 | 4 | 565 | 4 | 1,167 | Kenneth Payne | College, Cambridge. In 1932 he was a member of the winning Cambridge boat in the Boat Race. The 1932 crew won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta rowing as Leander Club. They were subsequently chosen to represent Great Britain at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the eights where they came fourth. At 19 years, 337 days Payne was the youngest British competitor at the games. He again rowed in the winning Cambridge crew in the Boat Race in 1934.
Payne subsequently coached Oxford crews. He umpired the Boat Race nine times.
Payne died in Rotherfield, East Sussex |
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{"datasets_id": 2965, "wiki_id": "Q6390584", "sp": 4, "sc": 1167, "ep": 4, "ec": 1185} | 2,965 | Q6390584 | 4 | 1,167 | 4 | 1,185 | Kenneth Payne | at the age of 74. |
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{"datasets_id": 2966, "wiki_id": "Q6390832", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 528} | 2,966 | Q6390832 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 528 | Kenneth William Junor | Early life | Kenneth William Junor Early life Kenneth William Junor was the son of Alice E. and William Junor. The younger Junor was born on 3 August 1896 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He served in the 4th Mounted Rifles of the militia prior to enlisting into the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 24 July 1915 to serve in the First World War. At the time of his enlistment as a private into the 75th (Mississauga) Battalion, CEF, he was a third year student at Toronto University serving in the 9th Mounted Horse of the militia. The annotation on his enlistment papers that he |
{"datasets_id": 2966, "wiki_id": "Q6390832", "sp": 6, "sc": 528, "ep": 10, "ec": 333} | 2,966 | Q6390832 | 6 | 528 | 10 | 333 | Kenneth William Junor | Early life & World War I | was being recruited as an officer seems to indicate he was already being considered for a commission. His physical examination noted that he was 5 feet 8 1/2 inches tall, fair complected, with brown hair and blue eyes. World War I In March 1916, Junor was shipped to England as a lieutenant in the 11th Machine Gun Company of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. In July 1916, he was forwarded to serve on the Western Front. He served during the Battle of the Somme, and was stricken with fever.
After his recovery, he was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps, on |
{"datasets_id": 2966, "wiki_id": "Q6390832", "sp": 10, "sc": 333, "ep": 10, "ec": 922} | 2,966 | Q6390832 | 10 | 333 | 10 | 922 | Kenneth William Junor | World War I | 28 July 1917. In December 1917, after training, he was posted to No. 56 Squadron as a Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a pilot. Between 29 January and 20 April 1918, using planes he dubbed Bubbly Kid and Bubbly Kid II, he would set two German aircraft afire in midair, destroy three others, and drive down three more down out of control.
On 23 April 1918, Junor fell victim to German ace Egon Koepsch of Jagdstaffel 4, who shot him down at Bray-sur-Somme. Kenneth William Junor is buried in an unidentified plot in Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, as well as memorialized on the Arras Flying |
{"datasets_id": 2966, "wiki_id": "Q6390832", "sp": 10, "sc": 922, "ep": 10, "ec": 1415} | 2,966 | Q6390832 | 10 | 922 | 10 | 1,415 | Kenneth William Junor | World War I | Services Memorial.
Kenneth William Junor was awarded the Military Cross for valour on the very day he was killed in action; however, it was gazetted posthumously on 13 May 1918. The award citation gives an incomplete description of his aerial career:
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in aerial fighting. He destroyed two enemy machines and drove down two others out of control, which crashed on landing. He always showed the greatest courage, skill and resource. |
{"datasets_id": 2967, "wiki_id": "Q27068203", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 540} | 2,967 | Q27068203 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 540 | Kenny Hall (basketball) | University of Tennessee | Kenny Hall (basketball) University of Tennessee Hall played college basketball at University of Tennessee, with the Tennessee, from 2009 to 2013 under coach Bruce Pearl. He played in 35 games with three starts as a true freshman, averaging 3.6 points and 3.0 rebounds per game on the year and 4.6 points and 3.8 rebounds in SEC play. He led the team with a .578 field-goal percentage, including a team-best .617 shooting percentage in SEC play. During his second Volunteers campaign, he saw action in 25 games, with one start, averaging 2.0 points and 1.8 rebounds in 7.0 minutes per game |
{"datasets_id": 2967, "wiki_id": "Q27068203", "sp": 6, "sc": 540, "ep": 10, "ec": 233} | 2,967 | Q27068203 | 6 | 540 | 10 | 233 | Kenny Hall (basketball) | University of Tennessee & Professional career | while shooting .528 from the floor. As a junior, Hall led his team in blocks per game (1.0 bpg) and was UT's third-leading rebounder, having 4.5 per game. During his last year at the college as a senior, Hall appeared in 31 games with 21 starts averaging 5.6 points and 4.1 rebounds in 19.4 minutes per game. Professional career After going undrafted in the 2013 NBA draft, Hall joined Rieker KomΓ‘rno of the Slovak League. During his first professional season, he went to average 14.5 points and 6.7 rebounds and 0.5 blocks per game, being the best player of the |
{"datasets_id": 2967, "wiki_id": "Q27068203", "sp": 10, "sc": 233, "ep": 10, "ec": 819} | 2,967 | Q27068203 | 10 | 233 | 10 | 819 | Kenny Hall (basketball) | Professional career | team in terms of blocking shots.
The next year, Hall entered the 2014 NBA Development League Draft, being chosen by the Delaware 87ers in the 4th round with the 1st pick. On March 10, 2015, he was waived by 87ers, after averaging 7.3 points and 4.3 rebounds per game. On March 12, 2015, Hall was acquired by Santa Cruz Warriors. With Warriors, Hall won the NBA D-League championship on 2015.
On August 23, 2016, Hall joined Koroivos Amaliadas of the Greek Basket League. In 18 games, Hall went on to average 13.4 points 6.7 rebounds and 0.4 blocks per game, including a |
{"datasets_id": 2967, "wiki_id": "Q27068203", "sp": 10, "sc": 819, "ep": 10, "ec": 1354} | 2,967 | Q27068203 | 10 | 819 | 10 | 1,354 | Kenny Hall (basketball) | Professional career | 25-point game against Kymis. His amazing performances draw the interest of other clubs, such as Pallacanestro Reggiana of the Lega Basket Serie A and Muratbey UΕak Sportif of the Turkish Super League. On February 11, 2017, Hall announced after a game against Kolossos Rodou in the Greek Basket League that he will join ΔEZ Nymburk for the rest of the season.
On August 18, 2017 Hall signed with Faros Larissas of the Greek Basket League. On November 29, 2017, Hall joined Maccabi Kiryat Motzkin of the Israeli National League. |
{"datasets_id": 2968, "wiki_id": "Q983174", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 582} | 2,968 | Q983174 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 582 | Kenny MacAskill | Member of the Scottish Parliament (1999 - 2016) | Kenny MacAskill Member of the Scottish Parliament (1999 - 2016) After MacAskill became on MSP in 1999 upon the establishment of the Scottish Parliament as a regional list member for the Lothians he moderated his political position, seeing the development of the Scottish Parliament as the most achievable route for Scotland to become an independent nation state. In this respect he was regarded as having adopted a gradualist approach to Scottish independence in place of his previous fundamentalist position. He was one of former SNP leader John Swinney's closest supporters.
In 1999 MacAskill was detained in London before the Euro 2000 |
{"datasets_id": 2968, "wiki_id": "Q983174", "sp": 6, "sc": 582, "ep": 6, "ec": 1197} | 2,968 | Q983174 | 6 | 582 | 6 | 1,197 | Kenny MacAskill | Member of the Scottish Parliament (1999 - 2016) | second leg play-off match between Scotland and England on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly. As he was not charged with any crime the incident did not affect his position within the SNP and he won re-election at the 2003 election.
In 2004, after John Swinney stood down as SNP party leader, Kenny MacAskill backed the joint leadership ticket of Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon. He had initially intended to stand for deputy leader himself on a joint ticket with Nicola Sturgeon, who would have sought the leadership. He gave way when Salmond reconsidered his earlier decision not to seek re-election |
{"datasets_id": 2968, "wiki_id": "Q983174", "sp": 6, "sc": 1197, "ep": 10, "ec": 51} | 2,968 | Q983174 | 6 | 1,197 | 10 | 51 | Kenny MacAskill | Member of the Scottish Parliament (1999 - 2016) & Cabinet Secretary for Justice (2007 - 2014) | to the leadership. Upon their election as leader and deputy leader respectively MacAskill was selected to be the SNP's deputy leader in the Scottish Parliament, making him the shadow Deputy First Minister.
MacAskill authored a book, 'Building a Nation - Post Devolution Nationalism in Scotland', which was launched at the SNP's 2004 annual conference in Inverness. He has since edited another book 'Agenda for a New Scotland - Visions of Scotland 2020' and has co-authored 'Global Scots - Voices From Afar' with former First Minister Henry McLeish. Cabinet Secretary for Justice (2007 - 2014) For the 2007 Scottish Parliament election MacAskill |
{"datasets_id": 2968, "wiki_id": "Q983174", "sp": 10, "sc": 51, "ep": 10, "ec": 668} | 2,968 | Q983174 | 10 | 51 | 10 | 668 | Kenny MacAskill | Cabinet Secretary for Justice (2007 - 2014) | was top of the SNP's party list for the Lothians region. He stood in the Edinburgh East and Musselburgh constituency, winning that seat from the Scottish Labour Party with a 13.3% swing to give a majority of 1,382. This was the first time the SNP had ever won a parliamentary seat in Edinburgh. After the SNP's victory at the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, MacAskill became the Cabinet Secretary for Justice.
One of MacAskill's first acts as a cabinet secretary was to lift the ban on alcohol sales at international rugby union games held at Murrayfield Stadium.
MacAskill also said that the 2007 |
{"datasets_id": 2968, "wiki_id": "Q983174", "sp": 10, "sc": 668, "ep": 14, "ec": 210} | 2,968 | Q983174 | 10 | 668 | 14 | 210 | Kenny MacAskill | Cabinet Secretary for Justice (2007 - 2014) & Pan Am Flight 103 | terror attack on Glasgow Airport was not committed by 'home-grown' terrorists in that the suspects were not "born or bred" in Scotland but had merely lived in the country for a "period of time".
MacAskill won election to a redrawn constituency of Edinburgh Eastern in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election. Despite notionally facing a deficit of 550 votes, MacAskill won by over 2000 votes. Pan Am Flight 103 On 19 August 2009, MacAskill rejected an application by Libya to transfer to their custody Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted of the Pan Am Flight 103 bomb that killed 270 people, acknowledging that "the American |
{"datasets_id": 2968, "wiki_id": "Q983174", "sp": 14, "sc": 210, "ep": 18, "ec": 212} | 2,968 | Q983174 | 14 | 210 | 18 | 212 | Kenny MacAskill | Pan Am Flight 103 & Reaction | families and Government had an expectation or were led to believe that there would be no prisoner transfer." MacAskill authorised al-Megrahi's release on compassionate grounds. Megrahi had served 8Β½ years of a life sentence, but had developed terminal prostate cancer. The Justice Secretary has discretionary authority to order such a release, and MacAskill took sole responsibility for the decision. Megrahi died on 20 May 2012. Reaction In the United States, where 180 of the 270 victims came from, the decision met with broad hostility. Political figures including President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke out against it, |
{"datasets_id": 2968, "wiki_id": "Q983174", "sp": 18, "sc": 212, "ep": 18, "ec": 898} | 2,968 | Q983174 | 18 | 212 | 18 | 898 | Kenny MacAskill | Reaction | and families of the victims expressed indignation over the decision. FBI director Robert Mueller, who had been a lead investigator in the 1988 bombing, wrote a highly critical open letter to MacAskill. Former Labour First Minister Henry McLeish was critical of Mueller's attack on the decision.
In Britain, reaction was divided. Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray, former First Minister Jack McConnell, and former Scottish Office minister Brian Wilson criticised the decision, while Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, former Labour MP Tam Dalyell and former British ambassador to Libya Richard Dalton publicly supported it. Ian Galloway and Mario Conti, representatives of the |
{"datasets_id": 2968, "wiki_id": "Q983174", "sp": 18, "sc": 898, "ep": 18, "ec": 1531} | 2,968 | Q983174 | 18 | 898 | 18 | 1,531 | Kenny MacAskill | Reaction | Church of Scotland and the Roman Catholic Church respectively, also spoke in favour of the release.
John Mosey, a priest who lost a daughter on Pan Am Flight 103, expressed his disappointment that halting Megrahiβs appeal before it went to court meant that the public would never hear "this important evidence β the six separate grounds for appeal that the SCCRC felt were important enough to put forward, that could show that thereβs been a miscarriage of justice." Saif al-Islam Gaddafi reiterated his belief in Megrahi's innocence commenting that the Justice Secretary had "made the right decision" and that history would |
{"datasets_id": 2968, "wiki_id": "Q983174", "sp": 18, "sc": 1531, "ep": 18, "ec": 2192} | 2,968 | Q983174 | 18 | 1,531 | 18 | 2,192 | Kenny MacAskill | Reaction | prove this to be the case. A letter in support of MacAskill's decision was sent to the Scottish Government on behalf of former South African President Nelson Mandela.
The Scottish Parliament was recalled from its summer break, for the third time since its creation, to receive a statement from and question MacAskill. The opposition parties in the Scottish Parliament passed amendments criticising the decision and the way it was made, but no motions of confidence in MacAskill or the Scottish Government were tabled.
After MacAskill won re-election to the Scottish Parliament in 2011, a Scottish National Party supporter said that the decision |
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{"datasets_id": 2969, "wiki_id": "Q19628623", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 541} | 2,969 | Q19628623 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 541 | Kent Anderson (novelist) | Life | Kent Anderson (novelist) Life Kent Anderson grew up in North Carolina. At age 19 he joined the Merchant navy as an Ordinary seaman for two years. In 1968 he enlisted in the US army and successfully applied and tested for the Special Forces. He was then assigned to Special Forces camp A-101 Mai Loc from 1969 to 1970. He earned two Bronze Star medals for his service in South Vietnam
After his service in Vietnam, he worked as a police officer in Portland, Oregon from 1972 to 1976. Kent Anderson then joined the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the |
{"datasets_id": 2969, "wiki_id": "Q19628623", "sp": 6, "sc": 541, "ep": 6, "ec": 1125} | 2,969 | Q19628623 | 6 | 541 | 6 | 1,125 | Kent Anderson (novelist) | Life | University of Montana where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction in 1978. He worked again as a police officer in Oakland, California in 1983 before resigning to write his first novel, Sympathy for the Devil, about a young Special Forces soldier in the Vietnam War. He then worked as an assistant professor of English at UTEP in El Paso, Texas and at BSU in Boise, Idaho.
Kent Anderson also worked as a screenwriter for Newline cinema, for which he wrote the scenario of Motorcycle Gang directed by John Milius. In 1996, Kent Anderson published his second novel, Night |
{"datasets_id": 2969, "wiki_id": "Q19628623", "sp": 6, "sc": 1125, "ep": 6, "ec": 1425} | 2,969 | Q19628623 | 6 | 1,125 | 6 | 1,425 | Kent Anderson (novelist) | Life | Dogs, where the protagonist of his first book joins the Portland Police Bureau as a police officer in the late 70's. This book was selected by the New York Times in the Notable books of the Year in 1998.
Nowadays, Kent Anderson lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he keeps on writing novels. |
{"datasets_id": 2970, "wiki_id": "Q6392001", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 573} | 2,970 | Q6392001 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 573 | Kentaro Kuwahara | Early Baseball Career | Kentaro Kuwahara Early Baseball Career He started playing little league baseball in 4th grade for the Nabari Elementary School in Mie Prefecture. He went on to become the ace of Tsuda Gakuen High, but his school never made it to any national tournaments.
He entered Nara Sangyo University and pitched regularly in the Kinki University Baseball League. In the spring of 2007, he pitched a perfect game against Nara University, earned 6 wins and helped his team win the league championship for the 3rd consecutive tournament. In all his 47 league appearances, he finished with a 26-2 win-loss record, 1.38 |
{"datasets_id": 2970, "wiki_id": "Q6392001", "sp": 6, "sc": 573, "ep": 10, "ec": 387} | 2,970 | Q6392001 | 6 | 573 | 10 | 387 | Kentaro Kuwahara | Early Baseball Career & Yokohama DeNa Baystars (2008-2010) | ERA and 255 strikeouts, and won one MVP, one Best Pitcher Award, a Fighting Spirit Award (Kantoushou ζ’ιθ³) and got selected into the Best Nine 3 times. Yokohama DeNa Baystars (2008-2010) He got selected as the Baystars' 3rd pick during the 2007 NPB professional baseball draft. He inked a 70 million yen contract for a 12 million yen annual salary, and got assigned the jersey number 38.
He debuted as a reliever against the Carps on April 6, 2008. He then alternated as a starter and reliever in his following appearances, and earned his first win on July 9 when he |
{"datasets_id": 2970, "wiki_id": "Q6392001", "sp": 10, "sc": 387, "ep": 10, "ec": 923} | 2,970 | Q6392001 | 10 | 387 | 10 | 923 | Kentaro Kuwahara | Yokohama DeNa Baystars (2008-2010) | pitched 2 scoreless innings in relief against the Swallows. On August 16, he threw 150 pitches to claim a complete shutout victory against the Tigers in Kyocera Dome. The rest of his outings were not so good however, and he finished the season with 3 wins, 6 losses, 1 hold and a 4.74 ERA. He performed better as a reliever with 2.45 ERA in 20 games, than as a starter with 6.75 ERA in 10 games.
He suffered from an injury during the pre-season games in 2009, and only managed to get back to the main squad in mid-August where |
{"datasets_id": 2970, "wiki_id": "Q6392001", "sp": 10, "sc": 923, "ep": 14, "ec": 254} | 2,970 | Q6392001 | 10 | 923 | 14 | 254 | Kentaro Kuwahara | Yokohama DeNa Baystars (2008-2010) & Orix Buffaloes (2011-2014) | he pitched mostly as a reliever thereafter. This role continued in 2010, but his appearances gradually decreased as he fell into a slump. As a result, he and Shingo Nonaka got traded to the Orix Buffaloes for Ikki Shimamura by the end of the 2010 season. Orix Buffaloes (2011-2014) He got 10 appearances in 2011, but recorded no wins and a 3.50 ERA. He spent the next year pitching in the Western League (farm), where he finished with a 5-1 record and 2.61 ERA out of 22 games. He got a handful of appearances with the main squad in the |
{"datasets_id": 2970, "wiki_id": "Q6392001", "sp": 14, "sc": 254, "ep": 18, "ec": 222} | 2,970 | Q6392001 | 14 | 254 | 18 | 222 | Kentaro Kuwahara | Orix Buffaloes (2011-2014) & Hanshin Tigers | next two seasons, but he spent the majority in the farm. After making just 22 appearances in 4 years for Orix, he was traded to the Hanshin Tigers at the end of the 2014 season for pitcher Hirokazu Shiranita
as Orix was short of starters and Hanshin was short of relievers. He inherited Shiranita's former jersey number, 64. Hanshin Tigers 2015
As soon as he joined the Tigers, his reliever skills were immediately put to the test during the season opening game. But as he continued to give away runs in his next 4 outings, he was eventually sent back to |
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2016
He continued to struggle with his pitching and only appeared in a handful of farm games. But after training to adjust his mechanics, he eventually improved and finished the season with a 2.42 ERA out of 29 games (1 win, 3 losses, 2 saves).
2017
His now stable pitching got him through 8 pre-season games with a 1.17 ERA, and earned him a spot in the season opener. Afterwards, he and Marcos Mateo worked together as the main set-up relievers |
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{"datasets_id": 2970, "wiki_id": "Q6392001", "sp": 18, "sc": 1369, "ep": 22, "ec": 624} | 2,970 | Q6392001 | 18 | 1,369 | 22 | 624 | Kentaro Kuwahara | Hanshin Tigers & Pitching Style | losses. Pitching Style With three quarters delivery, he throws a four-seam fastball up to a speed of 152Β km/h (94Β mph) and a 150Β km/h (93Β mph) cutter that sharply changes course just as it approaches the batter. Also included in his arsenal is a 130Β km/h (81Β mph) slider that follows a large hooking motion.
He struggled with control issues before joining the Tigers, but through the guidance of farm pitching coach Yasuo Kubo, they slowly altered his pitching mechanics during the 2016 season. The training made a drastic improvement in his pitching consistency, and resulted to his breakthrough performance in 2017 and his league topping |
{"datasets_id": 2970, "wiki_id": "Q6392001", "sp": 22, "sc": 624, "ep": 22, "ec": 644} | 2,970 | Q6392001 | 22 | 624 | 22 | 644 | Kentaro Kuwahara | Pitching Style | K/BB ratio in 2018. |
{"datasets_id": 2971, "wiki_id": "Q27949167", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 115} | 2,971 | Q27949167 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 115 | Kento Kawata | Career | Kento Kawata Career Kento Kawata joined J1 League club Omiya Ardija in 2016. On June 6, he debuted in J.League Cup (v Shonan Bellmare). |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 577} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 577 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Early history (1903β1930) | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball Early history (1903β1930) During this early era Kentucky was unstable in that the school went through multiple coaches, most staying only one or two seasons.
Records indicate that the first head coach of the Wildcats was W. W. H. Mustaine, who in 1903 called together some students, took up a collection totaling $3 for a ball, and told the students to start playing. The first recorded intercollegiate game at the college was a 15β6 defeat to nearby Georgetown College. The team went 1β2 for their first "season", also losing to Kentucky University (later Transylvania University) but defeating |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 6, "sc": 577, "ep": 10, "ec": 15} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 6 | 577 | 10 | 15 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Early history (1903β1930) & George Buchheit and the "Wonder Team" (1919β1925) | the Lexington YMCA.
Through 1908, the team did not manage a winning season, and had an all-time record of 15β29. In the fall of that year a full-time head coach was hired, Edwin Sweetland. This made him the first paid coach in Kentucky's basketball history. That year, the team went 5β4, and only three years later, boasted their first undefeated season with nine victories and no losses. The 1914 team under Alpha Brummage, led by brothers Karl and Tom Zerfoss, went 12β2 and defeated all its Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association opponents. George Buchheit and the "Wonder Team" (1919β1925) In 1919, George |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 10, "sc": 15, "ep": 10, "ec": 653} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 653 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | George Buchheit and the "Wonder Team" (1919β1925) | Buchheit became the new head coach of the Wildcats. An alumnus of the University of Illinois, he brought with him a new system of basketball. The "Buchheit system" or "Illinois system", focused on defense and featured one player standing under each basket, while three roamed the court. Buckheit varied the system he learned in Illinois in one important way. While the Illinois system employed a zone defense, Buchheit's system used an aggressive man-to-man scheme. On offense, he used a complicated system of passing called the "zig-zag" or "figure eight" offense.
Although the team had a losing season in Buchheit's first year, |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 10, "sc": 653, "ep": 10, "ec": 1309} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 10 | 653 | 10 | 1,309 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | George Buchheit and the "Wonder Team" (1919β1925) | they won the first-ever Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association tournament the next year, defeating the heavily favored Georgia Bulldogs. Both of these teams were composed entirely of native Kentuckians, anchored by All-American Basil Hayden. The tournament victory was considered Kentucky's first major success, and the 1921 team became known as the "Wonder Team."
In 1922, the team was unable to build on the success of the "Wonder Team." Although every player was eligible in 1922, two key players, Hayden and Sam Ridgeway, were injured before the start of the season. Hayden returned from his knee injury during the season, but was never |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 10, "sc": 1309, "ep": 14, "ec": 248} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 10 | 1,309 | 14 | 248 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | George Buchheit and the "Wonder Team" (1919β1925) & C.O Applegran, Ray Eklund, and Basil Hayden (1925β1927) | able to play at the level he had the previous year. Ridgeway fought a year-long battle with diphtheria, and although he recovered, never played for the Wildcats again. The remaining three members of the "Wonder Team" went 9β5 for the season, and bowed out of the SIAA tournament in the second round. C.O Applegran, Ray Eklund, and Basil Hayden (1925β1927) Buchheit remained as coach through the 1924 season before moving on to coach Trinity College (later Duke University). A different coach would guide the team for each of the next four years. C.O. Applegran immediately followed Buchheit, and his 1925 |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 14, "sc": 248, "ep": 14, "ec": 877} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 14 | 248 | 14 | 877 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | C.O Applegran, Ray Eklund, and Basil Hayden (1925β1927) | team posted a respectable 13β8 record. Applegran in college had played for the University of Illinois, where he became an All-American. The next year, Ray Eklund led the team to a 15β3 record, and produced UK's second All-American, Burgess Carey. The record was enough for Kentucky to win their first regular season conference championship in the Southern Conference.
Seeing the cupboard largely bare for the upcoming year, Eklund resigned shortly before the start of the 1927 season. The team scrambled to find a new coach, and former player Basil Hayden left his coaching job at Kentucky Wesleyan College to answer the |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 14, "sc": 877, "ep": 18, "ec": 250} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 14 | 877 | 18 | 250 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | C.O Applegran, Ray Eklund, and Basil Hayden (1925β1927) & John Mauer and the "Mauermen" (1927β1930) | call. An inexperienced coach and a roster largely depleted of talent left the Wildcats with a 3β13 record that year. The disappointment convinced Hayden that he wasn't the "coaching type", and he resigned after the season. Fortunately for the Wildcats, 1927 would be their last losing season for six decades. John Mauer and the "Mauermen" (1927β1930) The Wildcats' new coach for the 1927β28 season was John Mauer. Although he had a talented group of players moving up from the junior varsity team, Mauer quickly discovered that his players did not know the fundamentals of the game. He began a regimen |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 18, "sc": 250, "ep": 18, "ec": 876} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 18 | 250 | 18 | 876 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | John Mauer and the "Mauermen" (1927β1930) | of three-hour practices five days a week during the preseason. The practice began with half an hour of shooting drills and usually ended with a full-court scrimmage. Between the two, Mauer worked on skill drills and scenarios. Mauer's teams were nicknamed the "Mauermen."
Teamwork was the hallmark of Mauer's system. Every player worked on every aspect of the game; there were no specialists. Like Buchheit, Mauer employed a strong man-to-man defense. He utilized a slow-break offense that relied on a complicated system of short passes to get a good shot. Two elements of Mauer's system were new to basketball in the |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 18, "sc": 876, "ep": 18, "ec": 1460} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 18 | 876 | 18 | 1,460 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | John Mauer and the "Mauermen" (1927β1930) | south β the offensive screen and the bounce pass. The latter was so new to most of UK's opponents that it was referred to as the "submarine attack."
Over his three-year tenure, Mauer led the Wildcats to an overall record of 40β14. One major prize eluded him, however. Despite having teams that were almost universally acknowledged as the "class of the South", Mauer never led a team to the Southern Conference title. Despite his innate ability for coaching, Mauer lacked the ability to heighten his team's emotions for a big game, a fault that was cited as the reason for his |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 18, "sc": 1460, "ep": 22, "ec": 466} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 18 | 1,460 | 22 | 466 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | John Mauer and the "Mauermen" (1927β1930) & Adolph Rupp (1930β1972) | lack of tournament success. Mauer left the Wildcats to coach the Miami University Redskins following the 1930 season. Adolph Rupp (1930β1972) In 1930, the university hired Adolph Rupp, who had played as a reserve for the University of Kansas 1922 and 1923 Helms National Championship teams, under coach Forest C. "Phog" Allen. At the time of his hiring, Rupp was a high school coach in Freeport, Illinois.
Rupp coached the University of Kentucky men's basketball team from 1930 to 1972. There, he gained the nicknames, "Baron of the Bluegrass", and "The Man in the Brown Suit". Rupp, who was an early |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 22, "sc": 466, "ep": 22, "ec": 1096} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 22 | 466 | 22 | 1,096 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Adolph Rupp (1930β1972) | innovator of the fast break and set offense, quickly gained a reputation as an intense competitor, a strict motivator, and a fine strategist, often driving his teams to great levels of success. Rupp's Wildcat teams won 4 NCAA championships (1948, 1949, 1951, 1958), one NIT title in 1946, appeared in 20 NCAA tournaments, had 6 NCAA Final Four appearances, captured 27 Southeastern Conference (SEC) regular season titles, and won 13 SEC tournaments. Rupp's Kentucky teams also finished ranked No.Β 1 on 6 occasions in the final Associated Press college basketball poll and 4 times in the United Press International (Coaches) poll. |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 22, "sc": 1096, "ep": 26, "ec": 187} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 22 | 1,096 | 26 | 187 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Adolph Rupp (1930β1972) & The Beardless Wonders (1944) | In addition, Rupp's 1966 Kentucky squad (nicknamed "Rupp's Runts", as no starting player on the squad was taller than 6'5") finished runner-up in the NCAA tournament, and his 1947 Wildcats finished runner-up in the NIT. Rupp's 1933 and 1954 Kentucky squads were also awarded the Helms National Championship, and his 1934 and 1947 teams were retroactively recognized as the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. The Beardless Wonders (1944) One of Rupp's early successful teams, he would give the '44 team the nickname "the Beardless Wonders" and "Wildkittens" because according to Rupp, "It was like running a Kindergarten." Of |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 26, "sc": 187, "ep": 26, "ec": 755} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 26 | 187 | 26 | 755 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | The Beardless Wonders (1944) | the young players, Kentucky's best player was freshman Bob Brannum, who at the age of 17, would be named consensus All-American, making him the youngest player to ever earn the title. The Beardless Wonders would win nineteen of their twenty-one games, enough to be invited into the NIT. There they would be matched up with an equally young and talented Utah team nicknamed the "Blitz Kids." The game made for an exciting outing with both teams going into the half tied at 24, but with the help of Brannum Kentucky would pull away to win 46β38. Kentucky would lose the |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 26, "sc": 755, "ep": 30, "ec": 483} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 26 | 755 | 30 | 483 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | The Beardless Wonders (1944) & Kentucky's first championship (1948) | next game to home town Saint John's. Kentucky's first championship (1948) On the way to its first NCAA title, Kentucky would go on to a record of 36β3. Of these three losses, all were either away or at neutral sites, keeping Kentucky undefeated at home throughout the entire season. Kentucky started off the beginning of the season with a 7β0 record heading into their away game at Temple. However, Temple was able to give the Cats their first loss by one point, 60β59. Still, this loss was not enough to keep the Wildcats down, as they rolled off an 11-win |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 30, "sc": 483, "ep": 30, "ec": 1062} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 30 | 483 | 30 | 1,062 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Kentucky's first championship (1948) | streak before playing at Notre Dame, where they lost 55β64. They would not lose a game for the rest of the regular season. Kentucky continued through the NCAA Tournament to the finals, where they faced the Baylor Bears. Kentucky won its first NCAA title in a decisive 77β59 victory. The season did not end after the NCAA Tournament, as Kentucky who would play in the Olympic Trials, where they went 2β1, only losing to the Phillips Oilers once. This was performance enough to represent the United States in the 1948 Olympic Games. Despite only being a college team, the starting |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 30, "sc": 1062, "ep": 34, "ec": 316} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 30 | 1,062 | 34 | 316 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Kentucky's first championship (1948) & Back-to-back championships (1949) | 5 of Kentucky would defeat all of its competition in London, making Kentucky the only team to win both an NCAA title and an Olympic gold medal. Adolph Rupp soon gave this team the nickname "The Fabulous Five", in honor of their accomplishments. Back-to-back championships (1949) For the 1949 season Kentucky had high expectations with most of the Fabulous Five returning. Big Blue Nation's expectations were met as the 1949 team won one more game than the previous year including both a SEC regular season and SEC tournament championship, while also getting back to the Final Four that March. In |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 34, "sc": 316, "ep": 38, "ec": 203} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 34 | 316 | 38 | 203 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Back-to-back championships (1949) & A new decade (1950) | the finals Kentucky faced the Oklahoma A&M Cowboys, a team that had previously seen success in the tournament with back-to-back championships in 1945 and 1946. The Fab Five would succeed again winning 46β36 and Kentucky's only back-to-back NCAA championship. Kentucky was the second program in NCAA history to win back-to-back championships (there have been six other schools since). A new decade (1950) With a returning star player like Bill Spivey, Kentucky hoped to carry their success into the new decade. All did not look well after the Wildcats lost their first game by 11 to Saint John's at home, but |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 38, "sc": 203, "ep": 38, "ec": 821} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 38 | 203 | 38 | 821 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | A new decade (1950) | they would pull it together for the Sugar Bowl Tournament, which they won, beating NCAA runner-up Bradley. Heading into rival Tennessee now No. 2 Kentucky was looking at the beginning of a tough six away game stretch; and tough it was. After losing to Tennessee, Kentucky would struggle to chain two wins together, losing every other game. They would defeat their next fourteen opponents, including getting revenge in SEC tournament championship over Tennessee. Heading into the post-season, No. 3 Kentucky would play a powerhouse CCNY team in the NIT, missing the NCAA tournament. The Wildcats were no match and were |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 38, "sc": 821, "ep": 42, "ec": 354} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 38 | 821 | 42 | 354 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | A new decade (1950) & Third championship and point-shaving scandal (1951) | thrashed by the CCNY Beavers, 50β83. The same CCNY would go to win the NIT, and then the NCAA championship. They are the only team in college basketball history to accomplish this feat. Third championship and point-shaving scandal (1951) Coming off a successful but titleless 1950 season, the Wildcats continued their dominance into the new decade. Over the season Kentucky would defeat four top 10 teams, and would be ranked in the top 5 the entire season. And with only one loss heading into the SEC tournament it looked like Kentucky would once again claim both SEC championships and their |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 42, "sc": 354, "ep": 42, "ec": 996} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 42 | 354 | 42 | 996 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Third championship and point-shaving scandal (1951) | dominance over their conference. Vanderbilt had a different idea however, and would knock off the top ranked Wildcats in the SEC tournament finals denying them an eighth straight SEC tournament title. Kentucky was determined to not repeat the result it had in the SEC tournament in the NCAA finals, where they defeated fourth ranked Kansas State 68β58.
Adolph Rupp was the head coach at Kentucky during the year of the point-shaving scandal of 1951. In 1945 former Kentucky football player Nick Englisis met Kentucky basketball legend Ralph Beard while the two played football at Kentucky. Englisis entered the gambling business when |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 42, "sc": 996, "ep": 42, "ec": 1614} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 42 | 996 | 42 | 1,614 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Third championship and point-shaving scandal (1951) | he left the football team in 1946, then approached three Kentucky basketball players Ralph Beard, Alex Groza, and Dale Barnstable with his associates in late 1948 about potentially point shaving (fixing the score of games) during the upcoming season in exchange for money. The three players agreed to point shave and successfully shaved points in several games during the 1948β1949 season until an effort to point shave caused the Wildcats to lose to the Loyola Ramblers in the National Invitation Tournament. Groza, Beard, and Barnstable attempted to win the game under the point spread but kept the score too close, |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 42, "sc": 1614, "ep": 42, "ec": 2199} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 42 | 1,614 | 42 | 2,199 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Third championship and point-shaving scandal (1951) | allowing the Ramblers to win the game with an impressive performance at the end of the second half. Kentucky faced Villanova in their first game of the NCAA Tournament following the loss to Loyola and the three players attempted to win over the point spread. When Groza, Beard, and Barnstable failed to win over the point spread, it caused Englisis to lose all of his money and ended the point shaving deals between Englisis and these three players. On October 20, 1951, Alex Groza, Ralph Beard, and Dale Barnstable were arrested for taking bribes from gamblers to shave points during |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 42, "sc": 2199, "ep": 42, "ec": 2886} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 42 | 2,199 | 42 | 2,886 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Third championship and point-shaving scandal (1951) | several games including the National Invitation Tournament game against the Loyola Ramblers in the 1948β49 season.
At the conclusion of this scandal, a subsequent NCAA investigation found that Kentucky had committed several rule violations, including giving illegal spending money to players on several occasions, and also allowing some ineligible athletes to compete. As a result, the Southeastern Conference voted to ban Kentucky from competing for a year and the NCAA requested all other basketball-playing members not to schedule Kentucky, with eventually none doing so. As a result of these actions, Kentucky was forced to cancel the entire 1952β53 basketball season. Years |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 42, "sc": 2886, "ep": 42, "ec": 3513} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 42 | 2,886 | 42 | 3,513 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Third championship and point-shaving scandal (1951) | later, Walter Byers, the first executive director of the NCAA, unofficially referred to this punishment as the first de facto NCAA death penalty, despite the current rule first coming into effect in 1985, thus the NCAA having no such enforcement power previous to that. Echoing Mr. Byers' view, the NCAA's official stance is very much the same, and they now state in hindsight, "In effect, it was the Association's first death penalty, though its enforcement was binding only through constitutional language that required members to compete against only those schools that were compliant with NCAA rules. Despite fears that it |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 42, "sc": 3513, "ep": 46, "ec": 472} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 42 | 3,513 | 46 | 472 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Third championship and point-shaving scandal (1951) & Undefeated but no tournament (1954) | would resist, Kentucky accepts the penalty and, in turn, gives the NCAA credibility to enforce its rules." Undefeated but no tournament (1954) The team returned with a vengeance the next year, posting a perfect 25β0 record (Rupp's only undefeated season), for which it was awarded the 1954 Helms National Championship. In addition, Kentucky also finished ranked No. 1 in the final Associated Press poll. On the team were three players who had graduated at the conclusion of the previous academic year. When, at the last minute, the NCAA ruled these players ineligible from post-season play, Rupp decided to skip the |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 46, "sc": 472, "ep": 50, "ec": 518} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 46 | 472 | 50 | 518 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Undefeated but no tournament (1954) & Rupp's fourth championship (1958) | 1954 NCAA Tournament in protest. Rupp's fourth championship (1958) Early into the season it was obvious that the "Fiddlin' Five" were not like Rupp's teams earlier in the decade. They played around and made mistakes, which Rupp described as fiddling. In fact the Fiddlin' Five still has the most losses out of any Kentucky's championships, with six, three of those were in four games. Unlike the Fab Five or the 1951 teams, the Fiddling Five would yoyo in the rankings with their lowest a No. 13 coming after 56β57 loss to unranked Loyola Chicago. Kentucky would catch fire through the |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 50, "sc": 518, "ep": 54, "ec": 461} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 50 | 518 | 54 | 461 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Rupp's fourth championship (1958) & Rupp's Runts (1966) | tournament though and would win their fourth title over No. 18 Seattle in the confides of Louisville's Freedom Hall. Rupp's Runts (1966) Rupp's last Final Four team and one of his last chances at a 5th NCAA title occurred in the 1965β66 season, with Kentucky going all the way to the NCAA title game. The now historic 1966 NCAA championship game against Texas Western (now University of Texas-El Paso or UTEP) marked the first occurrence that an all-white starting five (Kentucky) played an all-black starting five (Texas Western) in the NCAA championship game. Texas Western won the game 72β65, on |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 54, "sc": 461, "ep": 54, "ec": 1025} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 54 | 461 | 54 | 1,025 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Rupp's Runts (1966) | the night of March 19, 1966. Contrary to popular belief, this game was not a huge "upset" as while Kentucky entered the tournament with only one loss and ranked No. 1, Texas Western also had only one loss and entered the tournament ranked second. Kentucky was a 6.5 point favorite in the game The game was depicted in the film Glory Road.
This game, and the result of it, were especially significant as the game came at a time when the civil rights movement was coming into full swing around the country. In 1969, after actively recruiting black players |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 54, "sc": 1025, "ep": 58, "ec": 26} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 54 | 1,025 | 58 | 26 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Rupp's Runts (1966) & The late Rupp years (1967β1972) | for over six years (his first formal scholarship offer was to Wes Unseld in 1964), despite most of the other SEC teams threatening to boycott if a black player took the court), Rupp finally signed his first black player, Tom Payne, an athletic 7'-1" center out of Louisville. This ended the aspect of all-white Kentucky teams forever, and marked a new era with many notable black Kentucky basketball legends, including Jack Givens, Sam Bowie, Kenny Walker, Jamal Mashburn, Tayshaun Prince, Rajon Rondo, John Wall, Anthony Davis, and Karl Anthony Towns. The late Rupp years (1967β1972) The late Rupp years looked |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 58, "sc": 26, "ep": 58, "ec": 579} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 58 | 26 | 58 | 579 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | The late Rupp years (1967β1972) | promising with Dan Issel's commitment to the Wildcats in 1966. Over the next four years Issel would score an average of 25.7 per game, adding up to 2,137 points in his college career. This made Issel the player with the most points to ever play at Kentucky, a feat that has not been matched to this day. This included his 53 points scored against Mississippi State in 1970, the most by a Kentucky player in a single game and breaking the previous record of 51 points held by Cliff Hagan. Issel would not capture the national championship in his college |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 58, "sc": 579, "ep": 58, "ec": 1148} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 58 | 579 | 58 | 1,148 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | The late Rupp years (1967β1972) | years, but would go on to make a name for himself in the ABA.
After 1966 Rupp would see continued success, but the Final Four eluded him. The Wildcats would end with a 13β13 season and miss the tournament all together in 1967, then reach the Elite Eight and Sweet Sixteen in the next two years. Sporting a senior Dan Issel, 1970 team looked to be truly special, perhaps one to dethrone the UCLA dynasty. Ranked #1 in the nation with a 26β1 record overall, Kentucky nearly missed a Final Four birth in a 106β100 shootout against Jacksonville.
Rupp was |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 58, "sc": 1148, "ep": 58, "ec": 1792} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 58 | 1,148 | 58 | 1,792 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | The late Rupp years (1967β1972) | forced into retirement in March 1972, after reaching age 70. At the time, this was the mandatory retirement age for all University of Kentucky employees. He was a 5-time National Coach-of-the-Year award winner, a 7-time Conference Coach-of-the-Year award winner, and was elected a member of both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and College Basketball Hall of Fame. Further, since 1972, the Adolph Rupp Trophy, considered one of the nation's premier basketball awards, has been given by Commonwealth Athletic Club to the nation's top men's college basketball player. In addition, the University of Kentucky retired a jersey in his |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 58, "sc": 1792, "ep": 62, "ec": 485} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 58 | 1,792 | 62 | 485 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | The late Rupp years (1967β1972) & The Super Kittens (1975) | honor in the rafters of Rupp Arena, a 23,500-seat arena named after him, dedicated in 1976. The Super Kittens (1975) After a year of playing in the freshman league and a disappointing sophomore season, Hall's Super Kittens returned with hopes of finally bringing Kentucky its fifth title. They nearly did just that, guiding Kentucky to a runner-up finish to UCLA in the 1975 NCAA tournament but not before avenging their 20-point defeat to an undefeated Indiana team. Despite losing in the championship game, it would give freshman Jack Givens a taste for success that would help propel Kentucky to the |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 62, "sc": 485, "ep": 66, "ec": 505} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 62 | 485 | 66 | 505 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | The Super Kittens (1975) & The Season Without Celebration and fifth championship (1978) | title three years later. The Season Without Celebration and fifth championship (1978) It had been twenty years without a championship in Lexington, and along with pressure of following a hall of fame coach, Hall would nickname the 1978 season the "Season Without Celebration." The pressure to win was immense on both players and coach to bring home the title, especially with a senior laden team that had gone to the finals as freshmen. Kentucky would hardly lose its composure all season or break under pressure, winning 30 of 32 games and defeating eight ranked teams along the way. By the |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 66, "sc": 505, "ep": 70, "ec": 277} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 66 | 505 | 70 | 277 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | The Season Without Celebration and fifth championship (1978) & Early Sutton era (1985β1988) | time Kentucky reached the tournament finals they seemed bound to win the title, though Duke would give Kentucky their all. With the help of senior Jack "Goose" Givens' 41 points, Kentucky defeated the Blue Devils 94β88, and finally won their fifth title and first in 20 years. Early Sutton era (1985β1988) In 1985, Eddie Sutton succeeded Joe B. Hall. He coached the Wildcats for four years, leading them to the Elite Eight of the 1986 NCAA Tournament. Two seasons later, Sutton and the 25β5 Wildcats captured their 37th SEC title and were ranked as the 6th college basketball team in |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 70, "sc": 277, "ep": 74, "ec": 538} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 70 | 277 | 74 | 538 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Early Sutton era (1985β1988) & Emery scandal (1989) | the nation by the Associated Press and UPI before losing to Villanova in the Tournament. Emery scandal (1989) Kentucky entered the 1988β89 season with a gutted roster. Ed Davender, Robert Lock and Winston Bennett had all graduated from school, while All-SEC sophomore Rex Chapman left school early to enter the 1988 NBA draft. Additionally, sophomore standout Eric Manuel was suspected of cheating on his college entrance exam and voluntarily agreed to sit out until the investigation was finished. Potential franchise recruit Shawn Kemp transferred out of Kentucky after signing with the school early that year. Unfortunately, Manuel was forced to |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 74, "sc": 538, "ep": 74, "ec": 1175} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 74 | 538 | 74 | 1,175 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Emery scandal (1989) | sit out the entire season as the investigation dragged on, essentially leaving the Wildcats in the hands of inexperienced sophomore LeRon Ellis and true freshman Chris Mills. The two underclassmen struggled to fill the talent vacuum on the court and the Wildcats finished with a losing record of 13β19, the team's first losing full-season record since 1927. To add insult to injury, the NCAA announced at the end of the season that its investigation into the basketball program had found the school guilty of violating numerous NCAA policies.
The scandal broke when Emery Worldwide employees claimed to have discovered $1,000 in |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 74, "sc": 1175, "ep": 74, "ec": 1788} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 74 | 1,175 | 74 | 1,788 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Emery scandal (1989) | cash in an envelope Kentucky assistant coach Dwane Casey sent to Mills' father. Later Emery settled a libel lawsuit filed by Casey for a substantial amount of money. Casey was not in Lexington when the envelope was supposedly mailed and the father of Mills said they received no money. The NCAA rescinded its show cause order immediately after the settlement of the lawsuit, and Casey's career has flourished as an NBA coach. Another player, Eric Manuel, was alleged to have received improper assistance on his college entrance exams and was banned from NCAA competition. Whether Manuel was directly involved has |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 74, "sc": 1788, "ep": 78, "ec": 8} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 74 | 1,788 | 78 | 8 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Emery scandal (1989) & Post season ban and rebuilding with the Unforgettables (1989β1992) | been questioned. Kentucky was already on probation stemming from allegations of an extensive scheme of payments to recruits, and the NCAA seriously considered hitting the Wildcats with the "death penalty", which would have shut down the entire basketball program (as opposed to simply being banned from postseason play) for up to two years. However, school president David Roselle forced Sutton and athletic director Cliff Hagan to resign. The Wildcats were slapped with three years' probation, a two-year ban from postseason play and a ban from live television in 1989β90. Post season ban and rebuilding with the Unforgettables (1989β1992) In 1989, |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 78, "sc": 8, "ep": 78, "ec": 637} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 78 | 8 | 78 | 637 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Post season ban and rebuilding with the Unforgettables (1989β1992) | Rick Pitino left the NBA's New York Knicks and became the coach at a Kentucky program reeling from the aforementioned scandal. Kentucky would be banned from the 1990 and 1991 post season, with the 1990 season suffering a 14β14 record. Kentucky would improve in 1991 with a beavy of home-grown upperclassmen such as Sean Woods, John Pelphrey, Richie Farmer, Deron Feldhaus, and Reggie Hanson along with the talented freshman Jamal Mashburn. Despite their record of 22β6, Kentucky was still banned from the post season and would have to wait another year to see the Unforgettables succeed in the tournament.
Beginning with |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 78, "sc": 637, "ep": 78, "ec": 1209} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 78 | 637 | 78 | 1,209 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Post season ban and rebuilding with the Unforgettables (1989β1992) | the 1992 season, Kentucky was free of post season bans. Though they lost one more game than last season, this team was most memorable for going to the Elite Eight (for the first time since Sutton's 1986 team) with many returning upperclassmen from Kentucky. The team is also known for playing in what could be considered one of the greatest games in NCAA tournament history against Duke. In this game defending champion Duke were looking to return to the Final Four once again, Kentucky for the first time in almost a decade. The game was hard-fought and physical on both |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 78, "sc": 1209, "ep": 80, "ec": 9} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 78 | 1,209 | 80 | 9 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Post season ban and rebuilding with the Unforgettables (1989β1992) & Return to the Final Four (1993) | sides all game including Laettner's infamous stomp on Aminu Timberlake, which resulted in a technical. The teams took the lead back and forth until the final minute of the game which resulted in a first buzzer beater shot by Kentucky's Sean Woods to take the lead 103β102, and then Laettner's shot to win the game for the Blue Devils in the final seconds 104β103. This team came to be known as the "Unforgettables" for helping put Kentucky back on the path to success in the 1990s and because the team was made up of home grown Kentucky kids. Return to |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 80, "sc": 9, "ep": 82, "ec": 551} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 80 | 9 | 82 | 551 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Return to the Final Four (1993) | the Final Four (1993) Kentucky returned a junior Mashburn, along with Travis Ford and Tony Delk. They were expected to reach the Final Four for the first time since Joe B. Hall's 1984 team. The expectations were right, as Kentucky would head into the post-season with only 2 losses and a No. 5 ranking. After winning the SEC Tournament once again, Kentucky stormed to the NCAA Final Four to meet up with Michigan's "Fab Five" a team of young and highly talented recruits that brought Michigan to the championship game the year before. As talented as Kentucky was they would |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 82, "sc": 551, "ep": 90, "ec": 11} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 82 | 551 | 90 | 11 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Return to the Final Four (1993) & The Mardi Gras Miracle (1994) & The Untouchables and Championship Number Six (1996) | fail to reach the championship game with a 78β81 overtime loss to the Wolverines. But this would be the just a glimpse of a run Kentucky would have later in the decade. The Mardi Gras Miracle (1994) Kentucky started the next season ranked #1 but would underachieve, falling short of the Elite Eight for the only time under Pitino. The highlight of the season was the "Mardi Gras Miracle", a game where Kentucky trailed LSU 68β37 with 15:34 left, but outscored them 62β27 over the remainder of regulation to win 99β95. The Untouchables and Championship Number Six (1996) Starting in |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 90, "sc": 11, "ep": 94, "ec": 140} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 90 | 11 | 94 | 140 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | The Untouchables and Championship Number Six (1996) & The Unbelievables (1997) | 1996, Kentucky would put together a string of Final Fours with help from 9 future NBA players. The "Untouchables" as they were nicknamed, would only lose twice, to Final Four bound UMass Minutemen (coached by current Kentucky coach John Calipari) and Mississippi State. It was with their overwhelming talent and chemistry that would win Kentucky their sixth national title in the 1996 NCAA Tournament, Kentucky's first NCAA championship in 18 years. The Unbelievables (1997) The following year, Pitino's Kentucky team made it back to the national title game, losing to Arizona in overtime in the finals of the 1997 |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 94, "sc": 140, "ep": 94, "ec": 721} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 94 | 140 | 94 | 721 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | The Unbelievables (1997) | NCAA Tournament. Pitino's fast-paced teams at Kentucky were favorites of the school's fans. It was primarily at Kentucky where he implemented his signature style of full-court pressure defense. By the end of the Pitino era, Kentucky went from banned from the post season to going to three of the last five Final Fours and five of the last six Elite Eights. For this the 1997 team was dubbed the "Unbelievables" for taking a team that was not expected much of to return the Wildcats back to the championship game for a second time.
Pitino left Kentucky in 1997 to coach the |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 94, "sc": 721, "ep": 98, "ec": 457} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 94 | 721 | 98 | 457 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | The Unbelievables (1997) & Orlando "Tubby" Smith (1997β2007) | NBA's Boston Celtics, he then went on to coach Kentucky's in-state rival, the University of Louisville. Orlando "Tubby" Smith (1997β2007) Orlando "Tubby" Smith was introduced by UK Athletic Director C.M. Newton as the Wildcats' 20th head coach on May 12, 1997, charged with the unenviable task of replacing popular coach Rick Pitino. The Wildcats were at the top of the basketball world at the time, having won a national title in 1996 and, according to many, missing a second straight title in 1997 by the torn ACL of shooting guard Derek Anderson. (Anderson tore his ACL in January against SEC |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 98, "sc": 457, "ep": 102, "ec": 168} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 98 | 457 | 102 | 168 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Orlando "Tubby" Smith (1997β2007) & New coach and a seventh championship (1998) | foe Auburn; Kentucky lost the 1997 title game in overtime to the Arizona Wildcats.) The team Smith inherited sported seven players from the Arizona loss, and five from the 1996 championship team. However, since most of the players who had left after the 1996 and 1997 seasons were high NBA draft picks, his team had the lowest pre-season ranking since Kentucky came off probation in 1991. New coach and a seventh championship (1998) In his first season at UK, he coached the Wildcats to their seventh NCAA championship, including a come-from-behind victory against Duke in the Elite Eight, and another |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 102, "sc": 168, "ep": 102, "ec": 823} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 102 | 168 | 102 | 823 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | New coach and a seventh championship (1998) | comeback win against Stanford, then Utah in the Finals. His 1998 National Championship is unique in modern times, as being along with 1985 Villanova the 2nd team in over twenty years to win without a First Team All American or future NBA Lottery Pick (see 1998 NCAA Tournament). The 1998 team was also unlike Kentucky's past two championship teams, often falling behind in games before roaring back to win rather than dominating their competition.
Smith's teams, known primarily for a defense-oriented slower style of play coined "Tubbyball", received mixed reviews among Kentucky fans who have historically enjoyed a faster, higher-scoring style |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 102, "sc": 823, "ep": 106, "ec": 499} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 102 | 823 | 106 | 499 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | New coach and a seventh championship (1998) & Final Four drought (1999β2007) | of play under previous coaches. Smith was also under pressure from Kentucky fans to recruit better players. Final Four drought (1999β2007) After leading Kentucky to one National Championship in 1998, Kentucky would complete a perfect 16β0 regular season conference record in 2003, win five SEC regular season championships (1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005) and five SEC Tournament titles (1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004). Smith led the Wildcats to six Sweet Sixteen appearances (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005) and four Elite Eight appearances (1998, 1999, 2003, 2005) in his ten seasons. He totaled 100 wins quicker than any other Wildcat |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 106, "sc": 499, "ep": 106, "ec": 1097} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 106 | 499 | 106 | 1,097 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Final Four drought (1999β2007) | coach before him except Hall of Famer Adolph Rupp, reaching the plateau in 130 games (John Calipari subsequently broke this record in 114 games). In 2003, he was named AP College Coach of the Year.
Although Smith compiled an impressive resume during his UK career, he came under considerable pressure from many UK fans, who believed that his failure to achieve even a single Final Four appearance in his last nine seasons was inadequate by UK standards. This drought is the longest of any coach in UK history, although Smith did come just a double-overtime loss short of another Final Four |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 106, "sc": 1097, "ep": 110, "ec": 411} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 106 | 1,097 | 110 | 411 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Final Four drought (1999β2007) & Billy Gillispie (2007β2009) | appearance in 2005. On March 22, 2007, Smith resigned his position of UK Head Coach to accept the head coach position at the University of Minnesota. Billy Gillispie (2007β2009) On April 6, 2007, Billy Gillispie was formally announced as the new head coach of the University of Kentucky by UK athletic director Mitch Barnhart. He fielded questions from the media during the press conference held at UK's new practice facility, the Joe Craft Center. He expressed his excitement and joy to be not only considered for the position but to have been given the honor and the opportunity to coach |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 110, "sc": 411, "ep": 114, "ec": 271} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 110 | 411 | 114 | 271 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Billy Gillispie (2007β2009) & Decline in form (2008β2009) | what former UK coach Rick Pitino referred to as the "Roman Empire" of college basketball. "I'm very, very grateful and honored to be here, but we have a lot of work to do." Gillispie became only the sixth head coach in the last 76 years at the school. Decline in form (2008β2009) Gillispie's second season again started out rocky in 2008 as the 'Cats fell to Virignia Military Institute in their season opener. The second game of the season saw the Wildcats fall to North Carolina by 19 points. UK rebounded to win 11 of their next 12 games, improving |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 114, "sc": 271, "ep": 114, "ec": 799} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 114 | 271 | 114 | 799 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Decline in form (2008β2009) | their record to 11β3. On January 4, the Wildcats lost a heart breaker to archrival Louisville 74β71 after a 25Β ft. shot by Edgar Sosa with 2.3 seconds remaining in the game. Prior to the shot, UK was down 7 with 38.5 seconds left, and Jodie Meeks was fouled shooting a three, proceeded to make all three free throw shots, Patrick Patterson stole an inbound and passed it to Meeks who laid it in to bring the game to 71β69 with 29.6 left, and then an inbound pass went long and Meeks snatched the pass, drove to the hoop and was |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 114, "sc": 799, "ep": 114, "ec": 1340} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 114 | 799 | 114 | 1,340 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Decline in form (2008β2009) | fouled, and then made both free throws to tie the game at 71 with 22.9 left. So all in all, UK and Meeks got seven points in about 15 seconds to tie the game. Kentucky disposed of Vanderbilt to win their SEC opener on January 10, 70β60. On January 13, in a road game against Tennessee, Jodie Meeks set a new Kentucky scoring record by dropping 54 points on the Volunteers. This total bested Dan Issel's 39-year-old scoring record by 1 point, and propelled UK to a 90β72 win and 2β0 start in conference play. Kentucky followed up this effort |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 114, "sc": 1340, "ep": 114, "ec": 1888} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 114 | 1,340 | 114 | 1,888 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Decline in form (2008β2009) | with a 68β45 victory at Georgia, improving to 14β4 on the season. With wins over Auburn and Alabama, Kentucky moved to 5β0 in the SEC. On January 26, UK was ranked in the AP Poll (24th) for the first time since week 1 of the 2007β08 season. UK promptly dropped 3 in a row (to Ole Miss, South Carolina, and Mississippi State) before rebounding at home with a thrilling 68β65 win over Florida. Jodie Meeks scored 23 points in the contest, including the fade-away contested 3-point basket with less than 5 seconds remaining to seal the win for UK. On |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 114, "sc": 1888, "ep": 114, "ec": 2478} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 114 | 1,888 | 114 | 2,478 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Decline in form (2008β2009) | Valentine's Day Kentucky handily defeated Arkansas at Bud Walton Arena 79β63 behind another strong performance from Meeks. Meeks contributed 45 points and helped UK win despite the absence of Patrick Patterson (sprained ankle). With the win, UK remained tied with South Carolina and Tennessee for 1st in the SEC East at 7β3. Following the win UK completely collapsed, losing 5 of its last 6 games to finish the regular season 19β12 with an 8β8 SEC record. Entering the SEC tournament many felt UK would need to win the championship game to get into the NCAA tournament, but UK was defeated |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 114, "sc": 2478, "ep": 114, "ec": 3093} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 114 | 2,478 | 114 | 3,093 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Decline in form (2008β2009) | in the second game vs. LSU. With an unimpressive regular season and quick elimination in the SEC tournament, UK did indeed miss the NCAA tournament for the first time in 18 years and instead received an invitation to the NIT tournament where the team was defeated in the quarterfinal round against Notre Dame.
On March 27, 2009, an 18-minute-long meeting occurred between Billy Gillispie, President Dr. Lee Todd, Jr. and Athletic Director Mitch Barnhart, after which it was announced that Gillispie would not be returning as the head coach the next season. Barnhart stressed the firing was due to more than |
{"datasets_id": 2972, "wiki_id": "Q6392428", "sp": 114, "sc": 3093, "ep": 118, "ec": 464} | 2,972 | Q6392428 | 114 | 3,093 | 118 | 464 | Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball | Decline in form (2008β2009) & Calipari's first class (2010) | wins and losses, citing "philosophical differences" and "a clear gap in how the rules and responsibilities overseeing the program are viewed". Calipari's first class (2010) On April 1, 2009, John Calipari replaced former head coach Billy Gillispie as the Wildcats head coach. To begin his tenure at the University of Kentucky, John Calipari signed one of the best all time recruiting classes. The class was headlined by four five-star recruits: John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Daniel Orton, and Eric Bledsoe. On December 19, 2009, the Wildcats defeated Austin Peay 90β69 extending their record to 11β0, and John Calipari broke Adolph Rupp's |
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