When the Tennessee Volunteers come to Lexington next month, a big group of special guests will help cheer on their former team.
On Wednesday night, it was announced by UK athletic director Mitch Barnhart that the school plans to celebrate the 1996, 1997, and 1998 Kentucky men’s basketball teams that won a pair of national titles (’96, ’98) and made it to the national finals in the other (’97). This three-year period is considered to be one of the most dominant stretches in program history, rivaling the peak of Adolph Rupp’s time as head coach in the late ’40s and early ’50s.