1950–51 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team explained

Mode:	Basketball
Year:	1950–51
Team:	Kentucky Wildcats
Conference:	Southeast Conference
Short Conf:	SEC
Coachrank:	1
Aprank:	1
Record:	32–2
Conf Record:	14–0
Champion:	NCAA tournament National champions SEC regular season champions
Bowl:	National Championship Game
Bowl Result:	W 68-58 vs. Kansas State

The 1950–51 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented University of Kentucky. The head coach was Adolph Rupp. The team was a member of the Southeast Conference and played their home games at Memorial Coliseum. Two members of this team eventually returned to Kentucky as athletic director: Cliff Hagan from 1975 to 1988, and Charles Newton from 1989 to 2000.

Schedule and results

|-!colspan=9 style=| Regular season

|-!colspan=9 style=| NCAA tournament

NCAA basketball tournament

• Mideast
  • Kentucky 79, Louisville 68
  • Kentucky 59, St. John's, New York 43
• Final Four
  • Kentucky 76, Illinois 74
  • Kentucky 68, Kansas State 58

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Rankings

See main article: 1950–51 NCAA men's basketball rankings.

Awards and honors

• Bill Spivey, NCAA Men's MOP Award^[2]

Team players drafted into the NBA

• No one from the Wildcats men's team was selected in the 1951 NBA draft.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: RotoWire Fantasy Football, Baseball, Basketball and More.
2. Web site: Final Four Most Outstanding Players . cbs.sportsline.com . 31 March 2008 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080907123518/http://sportsline.com/collegebasketball/mayhem/history/outstandingplayer . 7 September 2008 .
3. Web site: 1951 NBA Draft on Basketballreference.com . 2009-05-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100317233645/http://www.databasebasketball.com/draft/draftyear.htm?yr=1951&lg=N . 2010-03-17 .