List of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball head coaches

The following is a list of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball head coaches. The Wildcats have had 22 coaches in their 113-season history.[1][2][3]

Since 1930, Kentucky has been led by seven head coaches, five of whom have led the Wildcats to an NCAA Championship. Adolph Rupp led Kentucky to 4 NCAA Championships (1948, 1949, 1951, 1958) during his tenure. Rupp's successor Joe B. Hall guided the Wildcats to their fifth NCAA Championship in 1978. During the 1990s, Rick Pitino and Tubby Smith each added a championship, capturing the crown in 1996 and 1998, respectively. Most recently, John Calipari led the program to its eighth national championship in 2012. Kentucky is the only school in college basketball history with five NCAA Division I Championship head coaches.

Tenure Duration of head coaching career at Kentucky
Record Number of career games won-lost at Kentucky
% Percentage of games won at Kentucky
* Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach
Tenure Coach Record %
1903-09W. W. H. Mustaine, others21–35.375
1909-10Edwin Sweetland/R. E. Spahr4-8.333
1910-11Harold Iddings5-6.454
1911-12Edwin Sweetland (2nd time)9-01.000
1912-13John J. Tigert5-3.625
1913-15Alpha Brumage19-7.731
1915-16James Park8-6.571
1916-17W. P. Tuttle4-6.400
1917-18Stanley A. Boles9-2.792
1918-19Andrew Gill6-8.428
1919-24George Buchheit44–27.619
1924-25Clarence Applegran13-8.619
1925-26Ray Eklund15–3.833
1926-27Basil Hayden3–13.187
1927-30John Mauer40-14.740
1930-72Adolph Rupp*876-190.822
1972-85Joe B. Hall297-100.748
1985-89Eddie Sutton88–39.693
1989-97Rick Pitino*219-50.814
1997-2007Tubby Smith263–83.760
2007-2009Billy Gillispie40-27.597
2009–PresentJohn Calipari*273-64.810

References

  1. "All-Time Winningest Teams" (PDF). NCAA.com. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
  2. "2008-09 UK Factbook" (PDF). UKathletics.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-31. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
  3. "Kentucky". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
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