Chart: Kentucky basketball by the numbers

March 15, 2015 at 1:17AM
A young Wildcats fan walks inside the Joe Craft Center on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington, Feb. 13, 2015. Basketball is a near-religion in Kentucky, but players born and bred there can find it hard even making the Wildcatsí ultra-talented ó and mostly recruited from out-of-state ó roster. (Luke Sharrett/The New York Times) ORG XMIT: MIN2015031320104562
Folks from Kentucky get hooked on Wildcats basketball at an early age. Recently, a youngster walked inside the team’s impressive practice facility. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

8: National championships, second only to UCLA's 11.

5: Coaches to win national titles (Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith, John Calipari), an NCAA record.

2,171: Victories all-time entering the SEC tournament, the most in Division I history.

3: Final Four appearances in John Calipari's five seasons.

19: Players selected in the NBA draft in Calipari's tenure, including 15 in the first round.

0: Losses during the regular season, making Kentucky the first team from a Power Five conference to enter the postseason undefeated since the 1975-76 Indiana Hoosiers.

21.2: Average margin of victory during the regular season, best in Division I.

35.1: Field-goal percentage defense, best mark nationally and just shy of Stanford's record of 35.2 percent in the shot-clock era.

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11.2: Aaron Harrison's scoring average during regular season, which led the team and served as the lowest scoring average for a Kentucky team since the 1946-47 season.

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