Almost a half century later, Rupp’s attitudes and actions on the issue of race remain a subject of interest and controversy. At stake is the legacy of a coaching icon who captured four national ...

But Adolph Rupp’s record off the court was less than stellar and often steeped in controversy. The coach who built Kentucky’s powerhouse basketball program won four NCAA titles before 1960.

N obody has ever accused Adolph Rupp of being a nice guy. Rival coaches grumble that “life doesn’t really hang on the result of a basketball game, but it seems like it when you play Rupp ...

The opponent: Loyola of Chicago, a ten-point underdog, which upset Rupp’s National Collegiate champions, 67-56. The admitted payoff: $500 apiece. More Must-Reads from TIME ...

The sight of Adolph Rupp's son moved her to action. "I was compelled to tell him that if the powers-that-be changed the arena name, I would no longer bleed blue," Eversole wrote in an email message.

He hired Adolph Rupp to coach the team in 1930. In 1918, Kentucky Wesleyan was in an entirely different city, located in Winchester, Kentucky, before its move to Owensboro in 1950.

"All of these letters threatening Adolph Rupp if he would dare recruit an African American player in the 1950s," Cutler said of ... "His courage to start me with all the controversy at the time." ...

After an Elite Eight appearance in 1986 and an SEC title in 1988, controversy hit in Lexington, and the NCAA came calling on the Kentucky program. ... Adolph Rupp 7 of 7.