Mears rolled into town in the spring of 1962, a few months past his 35th birthday, fresh off a national championship a year earlier at Wittenberg (Ohio) College. He brought a sackful of gimmicks and a ...

The fourth-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide spoiled all of the fun in Rupp Arena on Saturday, beating your University of Kentucky Wildcats in a game with implications near the top of the Southeastern ...

The quest for the national championship is underway, and this year, Rupp Arena is hosting some of the University of Kentucky’s fiercest rivals: Louisville, Tennessee, and Auburn.

The Kentucky students are fired up for this basketball game as they camped out at Rupp Arena overnight, hoping to get the best possible spot in the eruption zone.

It's a Kentucky tradition to bring out former players and head coaches, and at the very end of Big Blue Madness, the final person to come out was Pitino. Much of the Rupp Arena crowd erupted with ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The first sign that Sunday afternoon at Rupp Arena was going to be an unexpected, all-time electric day in that building arrived around 8:30 a.m. Kevin Wynn, his wife and three ...

Alyssa Newton/WHAS-TV APR. 14, 2024; Fans gather at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky to welcome new men's basketball coach Mark Pope.

New Kentucky men’s basketball coach Mark Pope poses for pictures with fans waiting in line outside Rupp Arena on Sunday before Pope’s introductory press conference inside.

Drake greeted past and present members of the Kentucky men’s basketball team during Big Blue Madness at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky., on Oct. 13, 2017. Alex Slitz/[email protected] ...

The Barnes-led Vols stormed into Kentucky's arena and won for the fourth time in his nine seasons, blitzing the Wildcats 103-92. He has a 4-5 mark at Rupp Arena as the Vols coach.

While the UK STUNT team is competing at the Clive M. Beck Center on the campus of Transylvania University, each of the other three displaced Kentucky women’s sports have moved into Rupp Arena ...