Coming into the 2020-21 college basketball season, there was a growing debate as to if Adolph Rupp should have his name removed from Rupp Arena, which you can read more about here.
Even one of Kentucky’s current players — Keion Brooks Jr. — said he believed Rupp’s name should come off the home of UK men’s basketball.
That debate has died down since the season began, but it’s now being awakened with a revealing story on who really helped UK basketball begin to integrate in the 1960s and 70s.
In an article posted by the Courier-Journal, reporter Jon Hale spoke with George Hill, an African-American postdoctoral fellow in UK’s department of biochemistry during Rupp’s coaching career at UK.