Season          W        L         Post Season

 

1930-31         15        3
1931-32         15        2
1932-33         21        3         Helms National Champion
1933-34         16        1
1934-35         19        2
1935-36         15        6
1936-37         17        5
1937-38         13        5
1938-39         16        4
1939-40         15        6
1940-41         17        8
1941-42         19        6         NCAA Final Four (3rd Place)
1942-43         17        6
1943-44         19        2         NIT 3rd Place
1944-45         22        4         NCAA Elite 8
1945-46         28        2         NIT Champion
1946-47         34        3         NIT Runner-Up
1947-48         36        3         NCAA Champion
1948-49         32        2         NCAA Champion
1949-50         25        5         NIT Quarterfinals
1950-51         32        2         NCAA Champion
1951-52         29        3         NCAA Elite 8
1952-53         - - - -
1953-54         25        0         Helms National Champion
1954-55         23        3         NCAA Sweet 16
1955-56         20        6         NCAA Elite 8
1956-57         23        5         NCAA Elite 8
1957-58         23        6         NCAA Champion
1958-59         24        3         NCAA Sweet 16
1959-60         18        7
1960-61         19        9         NCAA Elite 8
1961-62         23        3         NCAA Elite 8
1962-63         16        9
1963-64         21        6         NCAA Sweet 16
1964-65         15        10
1965-66         27        2         NCAA Runner-Up
1966-67         13        13
1967-68         22        5         NCAA Elite 8
1968-69         23        5         NCAA Sweet 16
1969-70         26        2         NCAA Elite 8
1970-71         22        6         NCAA Sweet 16
1971-72         21        7         NCAA Elite 8

Total               876     190    

 

82.2%           Career Winning Percentage

                      A record which still stands

The Record

The “Baron of the Bluegrass”

With a win over Drexel on December 21, 2009, the University of Kentucky Men’s Basketball program became the first ever to win 2,000 games. 

 

44% of those 2,000 victories belonged to Coach Rupp’s teams.