This Day In Kentucky Basketball History: December 22nd

December 22nd

All-Time Record Playing On December 22nd: 27-5 (.844)

77 Years Ago Today (1933): Kentucky – 42 Tulane – 29 Fogelman Arena

• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Bill Davis (16 points)
• Tulane’s leading scorer: Floyd Roberts (10 points)

76 Years Ago Today (1934): Kentucky – 52 Tulane – 12 Fogelman Arena

• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Leroy Edwards (16 points)
• Tulane’s leading scorer: Ernie Carrere and Kendall Cram (4 points)

73 Years Ago Today (1937): Kentucky – 35 Centenary – 25 Alumni Gymnasium

• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Marion Cluggish (8 points)
• Centenary’s leading scorer: John Lingo and Pete Williams (6 points)

69 Years Ago Today (1941): Kentucky – 64 South Carolina – 25 Alumni Gymnasium

• Fewest points allowed by Kentucky against South Carolina (52 meetings)
• First time Kentucky scored exactly 64 points in a game
• Kentucky’s largest margin of victory when scoring exactly 64 points in a game
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Milt Ticco (15 points)
• South Carolina’s leading scorer: Preston Westmoreland (6 points)

62 Years Ago Today (1948): Kentucky – 51 Tulane – 47 Jefferson County Armory (Attendance: 7,450)

• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Ralph Beard (15 points)
• Tulane’s leading scorer: Jim Riffey (22 points)

57 Years Ago Today (1953): #2 Kentucky – 73 #20 LaSalle – 60 Memorial Coliseum (Attendance: 10,000)

• UKIT Championship Game
• First meeting between the two schools
• First time Kentucky faced an opponent ranked #20 in the AP Poll
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Cliff Hagan (28 points)
• LaSalle’s leading scorer: Tom Gola (16 points)

56 Years Ago Today (1954): #1 Kentucky – 63 #4 LaSalle – 54 Memorial Coliseum (Attendance: 11,000)

• UKIT Championship Game
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Billy Evans (20 points) 
• LaSalle’s leading scorer: Tom Gola (20 points)

54 Years Ago Today (1956): #7 Kentucky – 91 #5 Illinois – 70 Memorial Coliseum (Attendance: 9,500)

• UKIT Championship Game
• Most points scored by Kentucky in a win against Illinois (15 meetings)
• Kentucky’s largest margin of victory against an opponent ranked #5 in the AP Poll
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Vernon Hatton (25 points)
• Illinois’s leading scorer: Harv Schmidt (18 points)

51 Years Ago Today (1959): Kentucky – 97 Temple – 92 Freedom Hall (Attendance: 8,500)

• Most points allowed by Kentucky against Temple (18 meetings)
• Kentucky’s smallest margin of victory when scoring exactly 97 points in a game
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Bill Lickert (27 points)
• Temple’s leading scorer: Bill Kennedy (29 points)

50 Years Ago Today (1960): Kentucky – 72 #16 St. Louis – 74 (Overtime) Memorial Coliseum (Attendance: 8,000)

• UKIT Championship Game
• Most points scored by Kentucky in a loss to an opponent ranked #16 in the AP Poll
• Most points allowed by Kentucky in a loss to an opponent ranked #16 in the AP Poll
• First time Kentucky lost when allowing exactly 74 points in a game
• First time Kentucky lost when scoring exactly 72 points in a game
• Kentucky’s smallest margin of defeat when scoring exactly 72 points in a game
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Bill Lickert (29 points)
• St. Louis’s leading scorer: Tom Kieffer (21 points)

49 Years Ago Today (1961): Kentucky – 96 Tennessee – 69 Memorial Coliseum (Attendance: 7,800)

• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Larry Pursiful (34 points)
• Tennessee’s leading scorer: Orb Bowling (21 points)

48 Years Ago Today (1962): #9 Kentucky – 79 #7 West Virginia – 75 Memorial Coliseum

• UKIT Championship Game
• Kentucky’s smallest margin of victory against an opponent ranked #7 in the AP Poll
• West Virginia’s Gale Catlett, f
  uture Kentucky assistant coach, scored 5 points
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Cotton Nash (30 points)
• West Virginia’s leading scorer: Rod Thorn (30 points)

46 Years Ago Today (1964): #8 Kentucky – 75 #10 St. Louis – 80 Kiel Auditorium

• Kentucky’s last loss to St. Louis
• Kentucky’s most points scored in a loss against St. Louis (17 meetings)
• First time Kentucky lost when scoring exactly 75 points in a game
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Pat Riley (23 points)
• St. Louis’s  leading scorer: Bob Cole (19 points)

45 Years Ago Today (1965): #10 Kentucky – 89 Texas Tech – 73 Municipal Coliseum (Attendance: 9,890)

• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Pat Riley (29 points)
• Texas Tech’s leading scorer: Norman Reuther (17 points)

44 Years Ago Today (1966): Kentucky – 96 Oregon State – 66 Memorial Coliseum (Attendance: 11,000)

• UKIT Game
• First meeting between the two schools
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Louie Dampier (30 points)
• Oregon State’s leading scorer: Vince Fritz and Loy Peterson (24 points)

43 Years Ago Today (1967): #7 Kentucky – 88 Dayton – 85 Memorial Coliseum

• Kentucky’s last win against Dayton
• Kentucky’s most points scored against Dayton (5 meetings)
• Most points allowed by Kentucky in a win against Dayton (5 meetings)
• Kentucky’s smallest margin of victory when scoring exactly 88 points
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Mike Casey (27 points)
• Dayton’s leading scorer: Bobby Joe Hooper (20 points)

40 Years Ago Today (1970): #3 Kentucky – 84 Oregon State – 78 Memorial Coliseum (Attendance: 11,500)

• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Jim Andrews and Mike Casey (19 points)
• Oregon State’s leading scorer: Neal Jurgenson (16 points)

37 Years Ago Today (1973): Kentucky – 78 Stanford – 77 Memorial Coliseum (Attendance: 11,500)

• UKIT Championship Game
• First meeting between the two schools
• Kentucky’s smallest margin of victory when allowing exactly 77 points in a game
• Kentucky’s smallest margin of victory when scoring exactly 78 points in a game
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Kevin Grevey (25 points)
• Stanford’s leading scorer: Rich Kelley (26 points)

32 Years Ago Today (1978): #11 Kentucky – 69 #17 Texas A&M – 73 Rupp Arena (Attendance: 23,472)

• UKIT Championship Game
• Kentucky’s 26 game home winning streak, the 9th longest home winning streak in school history, was ended
• Last meeting between the two schools
• Kentucky’s most points scored in a loss against an opponent ranked #17 in the AP Poll
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Kyle Macy (15 points)
• Texas A&M’s leading scorer: Vernon Smith (22 points)

31 Years Ago Today (1979): #3 Kentucky – 61 #9 Purdue – 60 Rupp Arena (Attendance: 23,768)

• UKIT Championship Game
• Kentucky’s smallest margin of victory against Purdue (8 meetings)
• Purdue’s Kevin Stallings, future Vanderbilt head coach, played in the game
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Fred Cowan and Kyle Macy (18 points)
• Purdue’s leading scorer: Joe Barry Carroll (25 points)

28 Years Ago Today (1982): #2 Kentucky – 59 #5 Indiana – 62 Alumni Hall (Attendance: 17,424)

• Kentucky’s fewest points scored against an opponent ranked #5 in the AP Poll
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Melvin Turpin (17 points)
• Indiana’s leading scorer: Randy Wittman (17 points)

26 Years Ago Today (1984): Kentucky – 66 Cincinnati – 55 Rupp Arena (Attendance: 23,102)

• UKIT Championship Game
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Kenny Walker (18 points)
• Cincinnati’s leading scorer: Myron Hughes and Derrick McMillan (16 points)

21 Years Ago Today (1989): Kentucky – 88 Portland – 71 Rupp Arena (Attendance: 18,639)

• UKIT Game
• First meeting between the two schools
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Sean Woods (20 points) 
• Portland’s leading scorer: Josh Lowery (27 points)

18 Years Ago Today (1992): #3 Kentucky – 65 Miami (Ohio) – 49 Rupp Arena (Attendance: 24,075)

• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Jamal Mashburn (26 points)
• Miami (Ohio)’s leading scorer: Jamie Mahaffey (10 points)

17 Years Ago Today (1993): #5 Kentucky – 100 Ohio State – 88 Lahaina Civic Center (Attendance: 2,400)

• Maui Classic Invitational Game
• Kentucky’s most points scored against Ohio State (18 meetings)
• Ohio State’s Derek Anderson, future Kentucky player, scored 23 points
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Travis Ford (27 points)
• Ohio State’s leading scorer: Derek Anderson (23 points)

12 Years Ago Today (1998): #3 Kentucky – 60 #2 Duke – 71 Continental Arena (Attendance: 20,029)

• Jimmy V Classic Game
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Heshimu Evans and Scott Padgett (13 points)
• Duke’s leading scorer: Elton Brand (22 points)

10 Years Ago Today (2000): Kentucky – 88 Indiana – 74 Freedom Hall (Attendance: 20,059)

• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Keith Bogans (26 points)
• Indiana’s leading scorer: Kirk Haston (18 points)

9 Years Ago Today (2001): #7 Kentucky – 66 Indiana – 52 RCA Dome (Attendance: 29,379)

• Kenttucky’s leading scorer: Cliff Hawkins and Tayshaun Prince (17 points)
• Indiana’s leading scorer: Jarrad Odle (12 points)

6 Years Ago Today (2004): #8 Kentucky – 92 William & Mary – 47 Rupp Arena (Attendance: 18,059)

• Only meeting between the two schools
• Kentucky’s largest margin of victory when scoring exactly 92 points
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Chuck Hayes (18 points)
• William & Mary’s leading scorer: Reid Markham and Taylor Mokris (7 points)

4 Years Ago Today (2006): Kentucky – 82 UMass – 68 Rupp Arena (Attendance: 24,307)

• Tied for the 39th largest crowd in Rupp Arena history for a Kentucky game
• UMass head coach, Travis Ford, was a former Kentucky player
• Last meeting between the two schools
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Ramel Bradley, Joe Crawford, and Randolph Morris (14 points)
• UMass’s leading scorer: James Life (24 points)

3 Years Ago Today (2007): Kentucky – 69 Tennessee Tech – 47 Rupp Arena (Attendance: 22,371)

• Last meeting between the two schools
• Kentucky’s fewest points scored against Tennessee Tech (5 meetings)
• Kentucky’s fewest points allowed against Tennessee Tech (5 meetings)
• Kentucky’s smallest margin of victory against Tennessee Tech (5 meetings)
• Tennessee Tech’s head, Mike Sutton, was a former Kentucky assistant coach
• The last time Kentucky allowed exactly 47 points in a game
• The last time Kentucky scored exactly 69 points in a game
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Patrick Patterson (24 points)
• Tennessee Tech’s leading scorer: Anthony Fisher (12 points)

2 Years Ago Today (2008): Kentucky – 102 Tennessee State – 58 Rupp Arena (Attendance: 21,958)

• Jodie Meeks attempted 15 3-point field goals, tied for the 6th most in a single game in school history
• Last meeting between the two schools
• Kentucky’s leading scorer: Patrick Patterson (33 points)
• Tennessee State’s leading scorer: Gerald Robinson (25 points)

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