The 1957–58 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented University of Kentucky

University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...

. The Head Coach was Adolph Rupp. The team was a member of the Southeast Conference and played their home games at Memorial Coliseum. This squad was often nicknamed the "Fiddlin' Five".

NCAA basketball tournament

• Mideast
  • Kentucky 94, Miami,Ohio 70
  • Kentucky 89, Notre Dame 56
• Final Four
  • Kentucky 61, Temple 60
  • Kentucky 84, Seattle 72

NCAA Championship

The 1958 NCAA Championship game was played in Louisville, Kentucky. Seattle had an integrated team, and played in front of an all-white crowd of 18,803. Elgin Baylor was the nation's second-best scorer (32.5) behind Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson.
The Chieftains led Kentucky by 11 points in the first half. The Chieftains were leading by a score of 60–58, with seven minutes in the game. Seattle lost the game by a score of 84–72, completing a 23–6 season.

Team players drafted into the NBA

Round	Pick	Player	NBA Club
2	10	Vern Hamilton	Cincinnati Royals

See also

• Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball
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• Kentucky-Louisville rivalry
  Kentucky-Louisville rivalry
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• 1958 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
  1958 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
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