[Wildcatk23]

You mean except for UCLA who has better accomplishments of all time. As for Coaches, it's not called the Adolph Rupp Award, it's the John Wooden Award.

UK Basketball started in 1903, UCLA 1920. Both teams have averaged exactly 18.7 victories per season, so you can't use the "Most Overall Victories" in the argument.

I a true blue Cats fan, but I am also a realist!

I think the wooden award has something to do with the ESPN era!

but anyways

here shouldn’t be much debate about No. 1. The Wildcats have a lengthy tradition to match North Carolina, Kansas and Indiana. Like Duke, they’re among the perennial title contenders. And if any school comes close to dominating the hoops landscape like UCLA did, it’s Kentucky, which won four NCAA titles and an NIT trophy between 1946 and 1958.

No matter how one measures success, Kentucky’s résumé has it.

Kentucky is No. 1 in wins , win percentage (75 percent), NCAA tournament appearances (50).
The Wildcats are 2nd in NCAA championships (7) and regular-season conference titles (49).

Kentucky is tied for 4th most Final Four appearances (13) and is sixth in NCAA tourney win percentage (.6897), though they do have the most victories in the Big Dance (100).

The ‘Cats haven’t missed an NCAA tournament since 1991, UNtil Billy G.
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They’ve also won the NIT twice. They were 3rd, 1st and 2nd in a 4-year span in the 40s when the NIT was perhaps the nation’s premier tournament. This was the big dance Then,

Kentucky’s been dominant the last 15 years, including 9 seasons with at least 25 wins. Just Duke and Kansas have more.

Perhaps the biggest testament to Kentucky’s overall dominance? They’re always a contender. Always.

No team won more games in the 1940s and ‘50s. The ‘Cats won the 2nd most in the ‘30s and ‘90s, were fifth winningest team in the ‘60s and ‘70s and finished among the top 10 in the ‘80s and ‘2000s. That’s eight decades either leading or being among the best programs. No other school is close.

consistency consistency consistency consistency