Kentucky basketball

The Kentucky Wildcats and Adolph Rupp will be a focus of a new ESPN documentary show on SEC basketball that begins Monday on SEC Network TV.

“The Black athlete was the coming story of sports, especially basketball.” “African-Americans knew their place — working either on the farms or as domestics or in some sort of manual labor.” 6, will focus on the transformation of the South — and, by extension, SEC basketball — during the civil rights movement. Basketball as a way of life in the commonwealth is made clear. The role Rupp’s Wildcats played in the 1966 NCAA title game against Texas Western is a topic of study. What follows is the earliest history of SEC basketball, which is, effectively, an early history of Kentucky basketball. Richie Farmer talks about growing up in rural Kentucky and the importance of basketball across the state. The opening scene of the initial episode features an unmistakable visual: a horse farm in Kentucky. University of Kentucky professor Dr. And when he arrived, he was hardly impressed by what he saw.” “He wanted perfection,” Pratt says. “Like so many other great stories, you might say it all began with a journey,” narrator Omari Hardwick says.