The 1950–51 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented

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. The head coach was

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. The team was a member of the

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and played their home games at Memorial Coliseum. Two members of this team eventually returned to Kentucky as athletic director:

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from 1975 to 1988, and Charles Newton from 1989 to 2000.

Roster

NCAA basketball tournament

*Mideast **Kentucky 79, Louisville 68 **Kentucky 59, St. John's, New York 43 *Final Four **Kentucky 76,

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74 **Kentucky 68,

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Rankings

Awards and honors

* Bill Spivey, NCAA Men's MOP Award

Team players drafted into the NBA

*No one from the Wildcats men's team was selected in the

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References

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