1950–51 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team

The 1950–51 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented University of Kentucky. The head coach was Adolph Rupp. The team was a member of the Southeast Conference and played their home games at Memorial Coliseum. Two members of this team eventually returned to Kentucky as athletic director: Cliff Hagan from 1975 to 1988, and Charles Newton from 1989 to 2000.

Roster

Schedule and results

|- !colspan=9 style=| Regular season

|- !colspan=9 style=| NCAA tournament

NCAA basketball tournament

• Mideast
• Kentucky 79, Louisville 68
• Kentucky 59, St. John's, New York 43
• Final Four
• Kentucky 76, Illinois 74
• Kentucky 68, Kansas State 58

Rankings

Awards and honors

• Bill Spivey – consensus first-team All-American

Team players drafted into the NBA

• No one from the Wildcats men's team was selected in the 1951 NBA draft.

References