Antoine Walker was unstoppable that season. But Epps was the glue that held it all together. They were such a fun team to watch.
@McDreamyn_mdphd8 күн бұрын
Also---thank god we had Oliver Simmons to hold the paint!!! :)
@cbrown947911 күн бұрын
Dwight Anderson my all time favorite Cat
@StariYTube114 күн бұрын
YES UK 96 IS THE BEST 💙 And the half court violations on defense was the BEST to watch
@C.P.Brown_22 күн бұрын
UNLV might not agree with this BS. Especially playing against the talent they played against back then. Made Duke look like Dookey in the championship game.
@CapeFear124 күн бұрын
Both teams sucked
@dawnlester147026 күн бұрын
The 1948 team won 36 games I think and the starters from that team won the gold medal at the Olympics which is a world title nobody else did that
@earlshannon1048Ай бұрын
Omg you destroyed this video by putting Ashley Judd on it. This woman threatened to kill President Trump on tv and got away with it! Sorry 🤡's but UCLA was the GOAT
@mikesmith5799Ай бұрын
1997 was also a crazy good team!!
@illusive1181Ай бұрын
BBN 4 L. Go Big Blue 💙
@dannywilson8021Ай бұрын
if this team untouchables then 23/24 team must be underachievement without a coach that know how to coach
@AJwoodwayАй бұрын
In 97 Pitino tried to full court press South Carolina who had 3 future nba guards and got our asses handed to us. He tried to do the same in the 97 finals against 3 future nba guards from Arizona and got a second ass for the other hand. A tight 2-3 zone would have won another title but Pitino wouldn’t adjust and lost.
@joemarwilАй бұрын
Still the greatest today! 2024
@RulesPlanetАй бұрын
1:12:40 - What does Pope say here?
@rollin92gtАй бұрын
"We're not supposed to do an interview".
@VFRZenАй бұрын
Mark Pope may not be our forever coach but he will bring this culture back and make UK games fun to watch again. I think he and his teams will be fun to watch. And he may yet turn out to be as special as any HC we’ve had. Go Big Blue!
@buckeyetater7540Ай бұрын
In my opinion the 81/82 N Carolina Tar Heels are the best team ever. I can’t recall the exact year but one or 2 seasons of Patrick Ewings Georgetown Hoyas were right up there with Carolina
@ljh45sАй бұрын
It was the Best team, I ever saw , thay was just that good, wish we had them now, those was the days ,go cats,
@thomasgray2961Ай бұрын
Alcindor UCLA team in 1968 was best I ever saw.
@mikeprima7555Ай бұрын
1980 LSU men's basketball team is the best college men's basketball team I ever seen not 2 win a title
@haldriver1378Ай бұрын
Thanks for the memories 💙💙💙💙💙
@michaele9351Ай бұрын
Best ever? They didn’t even win their conference tournament.
@tonystrinko729825 күн бұрын
Yes best ever, take that bs somewhere else
@armathis2647Ай бұрын
I really think this Kentucky team was the best basketball college team ever assembled. They use to literally smash teams. Sometimes the game was over in the first half.
@GregMarshall-wn3ckАй бұрын
Why now Coach Pitino should be brought back to Kentucky again ! Best Coach best College basketball program !
@4Whopper2 ай бұрын
Richie Farmer makes UK look like clowns. . What a dimwitted fool.
@user-hq2qq1si6n2 ай бұрын
What most people don’t know is that Larry Bird wanted to play for Kentucky. Can you imagine how much more dominant the 1978 UK team would have been if Joe B. Hall gave him a scholarship. They likely would have won at least 2 championships possibly 3 or 4 in a row.
@user-wv9mx9lt3v2 ай бұрын
LoL 😂🤣
@jasonwesterfield64542 ай бұрын
Ashley should be renamed Asshole, a Bitch for sure
@bluegrassreb2 ай бұрын
Realizing that this team's underclassmen went to the next 2 National Championships winning again in 98 and losing one in OT 97 makes a good argument for THE BEST EVER. Plus, they only lost 2 games that season ,UMASS and MS ST , both being Final 4 teams that year. . Uk got revenge on Umass in the Final 4 and they had beat Ms st by 30 on their home floor during the season .
@walkinphoenix453 ай бұрын
Calipari knew how fickle some UK fans could be back in 1996.
@brettwright2207Ай бұрын
Who?? We beat him in 96…
@walkinphoenix45Ай бұрын
@@brettwright2207 UMass beat us once during the regular season. Then we beat them in the tournament.
@michaelmiller56163 ай бұрын
“Macy, guarded by a Freshman.” Named Isaiah Thomas.
@FOG_34 ай бұрын
STOP it Indiana Hoosiers 1976 last undefeated team even till today
@charliebecknell98302 ай бұрын
I remember Indiana 1975, undefeated until KY sent them home, it was great.
@FOG_32 ай бұрын
@@charliebecknell9830 does the name Christian Watford ring a bell?? Love the rivalry even at the HS level
@WilliamBeamon-dm2tv2 ай бұрын
Indiana Kentucky was an all time AWESOME rivalry! I’m Big Blue all day and night, and I can still say Indiana was pretty dang good too! Boy I miss them days!
@threefivesevenАй бұрын
North Vs South. Awesome sectional rivalry.
@Aetnaboy73Ай бұрын
Only reason Kentucky won that game is because May had a broken arm it it lasted thirty more seconds they lose.@@charliebecknell9830
@user-kf8ui2ju6v5 ай бұрын
To me remembering sense the 1978 national championship team to 2012 team this is my favorite team of all time. But 1996 team is a very close second.
@beckypatrick7811Ай бұрын
The 1978 team was the first team I remember winning as well. But it seemed so long between that win and this win that everyone was just finally ready to celebrate! This team was awesome! ALL players were great! On another level!
@26michaeluk23 күн бұрын
I get it, but I love the 1998 Comeback Cats the most.
@eddie34895 ай бұрын
I still believe if Anderson played in 97 we would have won another championship!
@ericadams92992 ай бұрын
I agree. Wish we could get back to having a team like in those days
@charlieray4289Ай бұрын
Facts!
@tfajshАй бұрын
We would have won no doubt . He was an easy 20-30 points
@user-se7hf3vm3vАй бұрын
Derek is a good brother I went to doss with him 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿
@rickydavis1687Ай бұрын
Defintely
@eddie34895 ай бұрын
I went to the celebration at rupp! I actually felt rupp shaking when the bus pulled into rupp! Rupp was at max capacity!
@eddie34895 ай бұрын
Epps and Mercer saved me a dui one night! They were playing with water guns with 2 females! I was driving up a one way street on campus! And they came running and yelling and laughing telling me to turn around!
@eddie34895 ай бұрын
Imagine us Ky fans when Rick went to Louisville!🥹🥹
@sam-ji5mu5 ай бұрын
the 2015 team would like to have a talk
@stevejones97175 ай бұрын
Kentucky doesn't recognize that left wing Biden/Obama loving ho bag who is Ashley Judd.
@JohnSmith-zw8vp6 ай бұрын
I think the 1948 Fab Five (the REAL Fab Five, not those fake nickname stealers from Michigan) might have something to say about that!!
@C.P.Brown_22 күн бұрын
Nothing fake about Mchigan's Fab Five. They were 5 starting freshman. All top 25 3 of which top 10 players. & that 48 BS never had to endure half of what the Michigan team did. Racism coming at them from every angle. & they still manage to make the championship twice. Nor did that 48 team impact basketball as a whole. From baggy shorts & black socks which every league adopted. Also made history in Jersey sales for a season. Did 48 do any of that? Didn't think so.
@JohnSmith-zw8vp22 күн бұрын
@@C.P.Brown_ 1948 won our first championship (Fab Four next year won second title) and the Olympic Gold Medal! Plus your 1992 and 1993 second places finishes were stripped! So they were cheaters AND plagiarists! The '48 Cats will always be the REAL Fab Five.
@tonywhite70837 ай бұрын
Good times
@tonywhite70837 ай бұрын
At that point by far the best college team ever..mayne still is
@dudermcdude92452 ай бұрын
Haaaaaaa. Not really
@NP-ux9xgАй бұрын
@@dudermcdude9245 you don't know ball
@darrellludlow7 ай бұрын
Reminds me of so many nights listening to Kentucky Basketball and Cawood on the radio with my Dad - sprawled out on the living room carpet close to the stereo system.
@millardhardy80939 ай бұрын
B ware sec cars r coming with claws out
@millardhardy80939 ай бұрын
Forgive me C.A.T.S
@isaiahevans49306 ай бұрын
@@millardhardy8093GO CATS🔹⚪️🔹
@jamescurrry786810 ай бұрын
Absolutely phenomenal run
@dennisblakley954510 ай бұрын
Coach Wooden and his UCLA teams were a different type of dominant. Kentucky, Duke, Carolina, Houston, Georgetown, Florida, UConn, Arizona...the list goes on. The Bruins would have defended the 3 point line and out smarted any of these great teams and several other ones I didn't mention. Walton and his gang were a clinic in motion..bow down to the Bruins of Westwood.
@denitruesdaren978110 ай бұрын
Chill out this is the best college team there ever was back to back was crazy. Show me the facts that his team is better.
@denitruesdaren978110 ай бұрын
And they had a good post game and could play D
@denitruesdaren978110 ай бұрын
There is no argument to be made because Walton WOULD have WOULD have defended the three point line. You can’t prove a point on a stupid argument. Don’t talk because you can’t. Your dumb Bruins bow down to Patino and the Untouchables.
@denitruesdaren978110 ай бұрын
What a bum
@dredennis1135 ай бұрын
@@denitruesdaren9781the pros that this Kentucky team played were no slouches. They had great careers. The top 12 teams were really good.
@hansgordy10 ай бұрын
Ucla with Lew (Kareem) was the greatest team ever. Slam dunk... no contest.
@Brando-UK10 ай бұрын
The 96 UK team would have destroyed any of Woodens UCLA teams.
@hansgordy10 ай бұрын
@@Brando-UK ... Actually... The 1974 Ucla team is ranked the best in the history of college basketball. Kareem would have played with Kentucky.
@arlieferguson744210 ай бұрын
When you see this you know your watched in classic. The Defense something you just don’t see anymore. It’s really a shame that Sam Bowie had trouble with his feet when he got to the NBA.
@jakesnacks114910 ай бұрын
Louisville fan here, was in the Rupp student section during this game in 96' getting popcorn thrown at me. Louisville were good, good! ranked number 3, Kentucky won by 30.....
@mitchellwright294310 ай бұрын
'96-'97-'98 was a heck of a run.
@isaiahevans49306 ай бұрын
Greatest outside of Ky’s mid 2000 runs…
@jdavenport18056 ай бұрын
@@isaiahevans4930 1 championship game and 1 title versus 3 championship games and two titles, which I one could be better?
@isaiahevans49306 ай бұрын
@@jdavenport1805 well let’s be real the mid 2000s is more than just arguably the greatest era of college ball… Kentuckys 11’ and 14’ rosters were some of the scariest to ever face… I get the late 90s we’re considered just as good if not better than the mid 2000s and especially since those Ky teams had the accolades and made 3 straight natties! But like I said those 11’ and 14’ squads were theyre own kind of dominant.
@jdavenport18056 ай бұрын
@@isaiahevans4930 Dominant teams win titles. That's how you measure a team. In order to dominate you have to win more than one. 96 team had way more talent than any team we have had since 1977(when I was born).
@thomasgray2961Ай бұрын
So was 1946-47-48-49. Two NCAA champs. One NIT champ (when it was equal to NCAA in 1940s) and one NIT runner-up.
@THELUVOFG11 ай бұрын
The person narrating this documentary sounds like nonother than R&B singer Tyrees Gibson.
@stevegood3224 Жыл бұрын
I attended that game. I played in high school with Chuck Franz who played for Indiana that year. We went to watch him play. I grew up in Indiana and moved to Kentucky later in life so I was a fan of both programs.
@gravelandmuddband7312 Жыл бұрын
Great time to be a fan, not only of UK but college basketball in general. The game has changed so much. Not only the introduction of the 3 point line in college several years later, but the way the game was refereed. So much tighter were the calls and less physical play allowed. Also, the hand had to be on top of the ball.. Great rivalry indeed!!
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Antoine Walker was unstoppable that season. But Epps was the glue that held it all together. They were such a fun team to watch.
Also---thank god we had Oliver Simmons to hold the paint!!! :)
Dwight Anderson my all time favorite Cat
YES UK 96 IS THE BEST 💙 And the half court violations on defense was the BEST to watch
UNLV might not agree with this BS. Especially playing against the talent they played against back then. Made Duke look like Dookey in the championship game.
Both teams sucked
The 1948 team won 36 games I think and the starters from that team won the gold medal at the Olympics which is a world title nobody else did that
Omg you destroyed this video by putting Ashley Judd on it. This woman threatened to kill President Trump on tv and got away with it! Sorry 🤡's but UCLA was the GOAT
1997 was also a crazy good team!!
BBN 4 L. Go Big Blue 💙
if this team untouchables then 23/24 team must be underachievement without a coach that know how to coach
In 97 Pitino tried to full court press South Carolina who had 3 future nba guards and got our asses handed to us. He tried to do the same in the 97 finals against 3 future nba guards from Arizona and got a second ass for the other hand. A tight 2-3 zone would have won another title but Pitino wouldn’t adjust and lost.
Still the greatest today! 2024
1:12:40 - What does Pope say here?
"We're not supposed to do an interview".
Mark Pope may not be our forever coach but he will bring this culture back and make UK games fun to watch again. I think he and his teams will be fun to watch. And he may yet turn out to be as special as any HC we’ve had. Go Big Blue!
In my opinion the 81/82 N Carolina Tar Heels are the best team ever. I can’t recall the exact year but one or 2 seasons of Patrick Ewings Georgetown Hoyas were right up there with Carolina
It was the Best team, I ever saw , thay was just that good, wish we had them now, those was the days ,go cats,
Alcindor UCLA team in 1968 was best I ever saw.
1980 LSU men's basketball team is the best college men's basketball team I ever seen not 2 win a title
Thanks for the memories 💙💙💙💙💙
Best ever? They didn’t even win their conference tournament.
Yes best ever, take that bs somewhere else
I really think this Kentucky team was the best basketball college team ever assembled. They use to literally smash teams. Sometimes the game was over in the first half.
Why now Coach Pitino should be brought back to Kentucky again ! Best Coach best College basketball program !
Richie Farmer makes UK look like clowns. . What a dimwitted fool.
What most people don’t know is that Larry Bird wanted to play for Kentucky. Can you imagine how much more dominant the 1978 UK team would have been if Joe B. Hall gave him a scholarship. They likely would have won at least 2 championships possibly 3 or 4 in a row.
LoL 😂🤣
Ashley should be renamed Asshole, a Bitch for sure
Realizing that this team's underclassmen went to the next 2 National Championships winning again in 98 and losing one in OT 97 makes a good argument for THE BEST EVER. Plus, they only lost 2 games that season ,UMASS and MS ST , both being Final 4 teams that year. . Uk got revenge on Umass in the Final 4 and they had beat Ms st by 30 on their home floor during the season .
Calipari knew how fickle some UK fans could be back in 1996.
Who?? We beat him in 96…
@@brettwright2207 UMass beat us once during the regular season. Then we beat them in the tournament.
“Macy, guarded by a Freshman.” Named Isaiah Thomas.
STOP it Indiana Hoosiers 1976 last undefeated team even till today
I remember Indiana 1975, undefeated until KY sent them home, it was great.
@@charliebecknell9830 does the name Christian Watford ring a bell?? Love the rivalry even at the HS level
Indiana Kentucky was an all time AWESOME rivalry! I’m Big Blue all day and night, and I can still say Indiana was pretty dang good too! Boy I miss them days!
North Vs South. Awesome sectional rivalry.
Only reason Kentucky won that game is because May had a broken arm it it lasted thirty more seconds they lose.@@charliebecknell9830
To me remembering sense the 1978 national championship team to 2012 team this is my favorite team of all time. But 1996 team is a very close second.
The 1978 team was the first team I remember winning as well. But it seemed so long between that win and this win that everyone was just finally ready to celebrate! This team was awesome! ALL players were great! On another level!
I get it, but I love the 1998 Comeback Cats the most.
I still believe if Anderson played in 97 we would have won another championship!
I agree. Wish we could get back to having a team like in those days
Facts!
We would have won no doubt . He was an easy 20-30 points
Derek is a good brother I went to doss with him 👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿
Defintely
I went to the celebration at rupp! I actually felt rupp shaking when the bus pulled into rupp! Rupp was at max capacity!
Epps and Mercer saved me a dui one night! They were playing with water guns with 2 females! I was driving up a one way street on campus! And they came running and yelling and laughing telling me to turn around!
Imagine us Ky fans when Rick went to Louisville!🥹🥹
the 2015 team would like to have a talk
Kentucky doesn't recognize that left wing Biden/Obama loving ho bag who is Ashley Judd.
I think the 1948 Fab Five (the REAL Fab Five, not those fake nickname stealers from Michigan) might have something to say about that!!
Nothing fake about Mchigan's Fab Five. They were 5 starting freshman. All top 25 3 of which top 10 players. & that 48 BS never had to endure half of what the Michigan team did. Racism coming at them from every angle. & they still manage to make the championship twice. Nor did that 48 team impact basketball as a whole. From baggy shorts & black socks which every league adopted. Also made history in Jersey sales for a season. Did 48 do any of that? Didn't think so.
@@C.P.Brown_ 1948 won our first championship (Fab Four next year won second title) and the Olympic Gold Medal! Plus your 1992 and 1993 second places finishes were stripped! So they were cheaters AND plagiarists! The '48 Cats will always be the REAL Fab Five.
Good times
At that point by far the best college team ever..mayne still is
Haaaaaaa. Not really
@@dudermcdude9245 you don't know ball
Reminds me of so many nights listening to Kentucky Basketball and Cawood on the radio with my Dad - sprawled out on the living room carpet close to the stereo system.
B ware sec cars r coming with claws out
Forgive me C.A.T.S
@@millardhardy8093GO CATS🔹⚪️🔹
Absolutely phenomenal run
Coach Wooden and his UCLA teams were a different type of dominant. Kentucky, Duke, Carolina, Houston, Georgetown, Florida, UConn, Arizona...the list goes on. The Bruins would have defended the 3 point line and out smarted any of these great teams and several other ones I didn't mention. Walton and his gang were a clinic in motion..bow down to the Bruins of Westwood.
Chill out this is the best college team there ever was back to back was crazy. Show me the facts that his team is better.
And they had a good post game and could play D
There is no argument to be made because Walton WOULD have WOULD have defended the three point line. You can’t prove a point on a stupid argument. Don’t talk because you can’t. Your dumb Bruins bow down to Patino and the Untouchables.
What a bum
@@denitruesdaren9781the pros that this Kentucky team played were no slouches. They had great careers. The top 12 teams were really good.
Ucla with Lew (Kareem) was the greatest team ever. Slam dunk... no contest.
The 96 UK team would have destroyed any of Woodens UCLA teams.
@@Brando-UK ... Actually... The 1974 Ucla team is ranked the best in the history of college basketball. Kareem would have played with Kentucky.
When you see this you know your watched in classic. The Defense something you just don’t see anymore. It’s really a shame that Sam Bowie had trouble with his feet when he got to the NBA.
Louisville fan here, was in the Rupp student section during this game in 96' getting popcorn thrown at me. Louisville were good, good! ranked number 3, Kentucky won by 30.....
'96-'97-'98 was a heck of a run.
Greatest outside of Ky’s mid 2000 runs…
@@isaiahevans4930 1 championship game and 1 title versus 3 championship games and two titles, which I one could be better?
@@jdavenport1805 well let’s be real the mid 2000s is more than just arguably the greatest era of college ball… Kentuckys 11’ and 14’ rosters were some of the scariest to ever face… I get the late 90s we’re considered just as good if not better than the mid 2000s and especially since those Ky teams had the accolades and made 3 straight natties! But like I said those 11’ and 14’ squads were theyre own kind of dominant.
@@isaiahevans4930 Dominant teams win titles. That's how you measure a team. In order to dominate you have to win more than one. 96 team had way more talent than any team we have had since 1977(when I was born).
So was 1946-47-48-49. Two NCAA champs. One NIT champ (when it was equal to NCAA in 1940s) and one NIT runner-up.
The person narrating this documentary sounds like nonother than R&B singer Tyrees Gibson.
I attended that game. I played in high school with Chuck Franz who played for Indiana that year. We went to watch him play. I grew up in Indiana and moved to Kentucky later in life so I was a fan of both programs.
Great time to be a fan, not only of UK but college basketball in general. The game has changed so much. Not only the introduction of the 3 point line in college several years later, but the way the game was refereed. So much tighter were the calls and less physical play allowed. Also, the hand had to be on top of the ball.. Great rivalry indeed!!