Top NCAA Basketball Programs of All Time
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# 10 - Maryland Terrapins
# 9 - Michigan State Spartans
# 8 - University of Connecticut Huskies
# 7 - Indiana Hoosiers
# 6 - Georgetown Hoyas
# 5 - Kansas Jayhawks
# 4 - Kentucky Wildcats



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• Kentucky has never had any player win the Naismith College Player of the Year award, but it has had 5 players go on to win the Most Outstanding Player award, including Tony Delk in 1996.
• Has won 7 Championships, with the last coming in 1998. That makes Kentucky the team to have the second most Championships.
• Kentucky has made 13 Final Four appearances.
• Most NCAA tournament appearances with 46 and most NCAA tournament victories with 96.
• With over 1,900 wins, it is the winningest program in the nation.
• Home of legendary coach Adolf Rupp who won 4 Championships.
• Rupp’s 1966 team went on to lose to Texas Western, the legendary team that was featured in Disney’s “Glory Road.”
• Kentucky’s 1996 team one of the most talented, 9 went on to play in NBA, including Derek Anderson, Ron Mercer, Antoine Walker and Walter McCarty.
• University of Kentucky’s Rupp Arena has been named one of the five most difficult venues for opponents to play at.
• Fan base known to follow the team worldwide, call them self “Big Blue Nation.”

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