Duke-Kentucky All-Times Basketball Series History

[JPS]

For anyone interested in college basketball history, and in particular the history between Duke and Kentucky, the below link is available which goes into detail of this rivalry, including the games, players and coaches etc. This series goes back to 1930 at the Southern Conference tournament held in Atlanta's Municipal Auditorium.

Link to All-Time Series History (http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/rivalDuke.html)

http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Graphics/Arenas/atlantamunicipalinterior.jpg
Inside of Atlanta Municipal Auditorium - For the basketball tournament a temporary floor was installed at stage height.

While UK and Duke aren't rivals in the sense that they play on a regular basis, they have had a remarkable number of high profile and important match-ups over the years. They also have a large number of connections between the two programs, which I have an entire section talking about.

http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Graphics/GameAction/19681221Army.jpg
Mike Krzyzewski faced Kentucky while playing for Army

If anyone has any additional information, comments, corrections etc., please let me know.

Thanks

Jon

[ricks68]

Welcome to the boards. Please come back to visit and participate again. Fantastic link to such a well-written article---especially if you are the Jon Scott that wrote it!:)

ricks

[licc85]

Box score and write up for the greatest game ever played:

http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Statistics/Games/19920328Duke.html

Mmm . . . re-living my childhood . . . the taste of UK's tears are so sweet :)

[CameronBornAndBred]

That's a great read, thanks much for posting. I found a much shorter article; while it doesn't match what the OP linked to in depth, it does have this one line.


Truth of the matter is the two basketball powers have a long and storied history, just not so much against each other, except of course for that 1992 NCAA thriller that remains etched in stone as the greatest game in the history of college basketball.
Christian Laettner. OK, I said it. Not saying it again.
;)
http://www.kentucky.com/2012/11/11/2404465/john-clay-a-look-back-at-uk-basketballs.html


Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/11/11/2404465/john-clay-a-look-back-at-uk-basketballs.html#storylink=cpy

[Olympic Fan]

For a look at the series from a Duke point of view, try this:

http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205731187&DB_OEM_ID=4200

Bruce Bell is now a judge in Lexington!!!

[JPS]

For a look at the series from a Duke point of view, try this:

http://www.goduke.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205731187&DB_OEM_ID=4200

Bruce Bell is now a judge in Lexington!!!

I like Al Featherston but the following is just ridiculous:


But Duke was playing with a handicap. All-American guard Bob Verga was just out of the hospital with strep throat and barely able to play. When Adolph Rupp heard the news, he put guard Larry Conley in the infirmary with the flu. Three years later, when Duke played in Lexington, a Wildcat assistant coach told the Duke staff that Conley’s illness was merely a ploy by Rupp to avoid giving Duke a psychological edge.

Whatever the truth, Conley started and played his usual game.

I'd be interested in what Larry Conley has to say about this claim. Also, just for the record UK's only assistant coach in 1966 was Harry Lancaster. I don't tihnk any of UK's assistant coaches in 1969-70 had been with the team in 1966.

BTW, below is an article from the New York Times after the game talking about Conley:


KENTUCKY'S STAR RESIST ILLNESS (The New York Times)

COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 18 -- At 10 o'clock last night Larry Conley, one of Kentucky's basketball stars, was running a fever of 102 degrees. He was given a chest rub, made to breath over a vaporizer for two hours and put to bed under three blankets. The fever broke around 2 A.M.

Less than 24 hours later, at about 9 o'clock tonight; Conley grabbed a rebound from a missed Duke shot, drove at top speed the length of the court and put the ball in the basket for the shot that his coach, Adolph Rupp, said "broke the game for us." It made the score 79-72 with a minute to go in the semi-final contest of the National Athletic Association Collegiate Tournament.

Conley showed no signs of the illness that affected him all week when he dribbled rapidly down the length of the floor at Cole Field House. He looked the part of a member of the nation's first-ranking team.

Took Himself Out

But after the game, the slim 6-foot-3-inch senior from Ashland, Ky., said he was weak. He said, "I felt dizzy a couple of times during the game and those two times I left the game I took myself out."

Conley pointed to himself and Rupp took him out. Whle he sat on the bench, the Kentucky trainer, Spike Kerns, had him breath over a cup full of Vicks. He inhaled this for a while and then re-entered the game.

Following the game, Conley was permitted to watch about half of the Texas Western-Utah contest before being taken back to the motel where Kentucky's team is staying. Put to bed under a couple of blankets, Conley had to breath over the vaporizer once again.

Conley wasn't the only player in this match between the nation's No. 1 and No. 2 teams recovering from illness. Bob Verga of Duke had been ill earlier in the week also. Verga lost about five pounds during his siege with flu Monday and Tuesday.

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If Featherston wants to write that a part of history was fabricated etc., he needs to do better IMO than repeating what some unnamed Duke source was supposedly told by some unidentified UK source over 40 years ago.

Jon

[dynastydefender]

Love it. Especially like the fact that for a short time after leaving the Uk job, Adolph Rupp was the Duke Coach.

[JPS]

Love it. Especially like the fact that for a short time after leaving the Uk job, Adolph Rupp was the Duke Coach.

Very briefly although never official. As you probably know, Duke ended up hiring Neil McGeachy.

In a bit of trivia, McGeachy is the father of Ashley McGeachy-Fox, who was a sportswriter in Philadelphia and now apparently is with ESPN.

Jon

[OldPhiKap]

Excellent work, Jon. Thanks for sharing and please come back often. Hell, you can help us pile on the Tar Heels!

-- OPK