Adolph Rupp News

Adolph Rupp News From AOL News

When Adolph Rupp Won 1,234 Games

The day Adolph Rupp won his 1,234th college basketball game, it rained. All day. Inside Vanderbilt's Memorial Gymnasium, the drops thumped away like a drumline, perhaps a subtle suggestion that time marched on that night. Rupp waited out of sight during warmups as nervous as when he had coached his first game against...

Baylor Could Be Headed Full-Circle to Final Four Days

HOUSTON – To hear Gerald Cobb tell it, his era as a do-it-all sixth man on the Baylor men's basketball teams in the 1940s and early 1950s were the best of times for the program. The Bears were a power in the region, having won outright or shared a piece of the Southwest Conference championship during four of five...

Jodie Meeks Scores 54 Points, Breaks Kentucky Scoring Record

Jodie Meeks is a baller. He was AJC Player of the Year. He averaged 23-plus points as a senior in high school. In college, he made the 2007 All-SEC Freshman Team and All-America Freshman Team. And he's only 21. But Tuesday he reached a new level, as scored the most points in a single game by a player in the University of...

Adolph Rupp News From the Web

05/01/12 Vaught's Views: Adoph Rupp a racist? Now way says... Source: The Advocate-Messenger - Danville KY He was an All-American at Duquesne and helped the Dukes reach the NCAA Elite Eight, became one of the first two African-Americans in the NBA to play on a championship team and even played with and against the Harlem Globetrotters.