University Of Kentucky Basketball

Sometimes, I have way too much time on my hands. Last night and this morning were a good example of that. I am currently on vacation from work so I decided to do some research on something that I enjoy – the University of Kentucky Basketball team. Well, as someone with a degree in History, I love research too so I was actually doing two things I enjoy.

Anyway, I did some checking and found that there are currently (or will be by July 1st) 347 NCAA Division 1 Basketball teams. There were 345 this past season but the University of New Orleans, which had announced a couple of years back that it was switching from Division 1 to Division 2, announced last month that it was staying in Division 1, and Northern Kentucky University, my alma mater and current employer, will be making the move from Division 2 to Division 1 in July.

Anyway, I decided to come up with a list of Division 1 teams UK has a winning record against, teams UK has an even or losing record against, and teams that UK has never played. This is for current (or very soon to be) Division 1 teams only.

UK currently has a winning record against 188 Division 1 schools, an even or losing record against 19 Division 1 schools, and has never played 139 Division 1 schools.

The following is a breakdown of the categories (this is a long list):

Winning Record Against:

Air Force

Akron

Alabama

Alcorn State

American

Appalachian State

Arizona State

Arkansas

Arkansas-Little Rock

Arkansas State

Army

Auburn

Austin Peay

Ball State

Baylor

Boston University

Bowling Green

Bradley

Brigham Young (BYU)

Butler

California

Campbell

Canisius

Central Arkansas

Central Florida

Central Michigan

Chattanooga

Charlotte

Cincinnati

Clemson

Cleveland State

College of Charleston

Colorado

Columbia

Coppin State

Creighton

Dartmouth

Davidson

Dayton

Delaware State

DePaul

Drexel

Duke

Duquesne

East Carolina

East Tennessee State

Eastern Kentucky

Florida

Florida A&M

Florida Atlantic

Florida International

Florida State

Furman

George Washington

Georgia

Georgia State

Georgia Tech

Gonzaga

Hartford

Hawaii

High Point

Holy Cross

Houston

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

IUPU-Indianapolis

Iona

Iowa

Iowa State

Jacksonville State

Kansas

Kansas State

Kent State

Lamar

LaSalle

Liberty

Lipscomb

Long Beach State

Long Island

Longwood

Louisiana State

Louisville

Loyola (Chicago)

Loyola (Maryland)

Maine

Marist

Marshall

Maryland

Massachusetts

Mercer

Miami (FL)

Miami (OH)

Michigan

Michigan State

Minnesota

Mississippi

Mississippi State

Mississippi Valley State

Missouri

Montana

Morehead State

Mount Saint Mary’s

Navy

Nebraska

Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV)

New Mexico State

Niagara

North Carolina Asheville

North Carolina State

Northern Colorado

Northwestern

Notre Dame

Ohio

Ohio State

Oklahoma

Oklahoma State

Old Dominion

Oregon

Oregon State

Penn

Penn State

Pepperdine

Pittsburgh

Portland

Portland State

Princeton

Providence

Purdue

Radford

Rhode Island

Rider

Robert Morris

Rutgers

St Bonaventure

St John’s

St Joseph’s (PA)

Sam Houston

Samford

San Francisco

San Jose State

Santa Clara

Seattle

South Carolina

South Carolina State

South Dakota State

Southern

Southern Methodist (SMU)

Stanford

Stony Brook

Syracuse

Temple

Tennessee

Tennessee Martin

Tennessee State

Tennessee Tech

Texas

Texas A&M

Texas Christian (TCU)

Texas Southern

Texas State

Texas Tech

Toledo

Tulane

Tulsa

UCLA

Utah

Utah State

Valparaiso

Vanderbilt

Villanova

Virginia

Virginia Military (VMI)

Virginia Tech

Wake Forest

Washington

Washington State

West Virginia

Western Carolina

Western Kentucky

William & Mary

Winthrop

Wisconsin

Wisconsin Green Bay

Wright State

Wyoming

Xavier (OH)

Yale

TOTALS: 188

Losing or Even Record Against:

Alabama Birmingham

Arizona

Connecticut

Cornell (Even)

Detroit (Even)

Gardner-Webb

Georgetown

Jacksonville (Even)

Louisiana-Lafayette

Marquette (Even)

Memphis

Middle Tennessee

North Carolina

Northwestern State (Even)

Saint Louis

San Diego

Seton Hall (Even)

Southern Cal

Texas El Paso (UTEP)

TOTALS: 19

Never Played:

Alabama A&M

Alabama State

Albany

Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Belmont

Bethune-Cookman

Binghamton

Boise State

Boston College

Brown

Bryant

Bucknell

Buffalo

Cal-Davis

Cal-Irvine

Cal-Riverside

Cal-Santa Barbara

Cal Poly-SLO

Cal State-Bakersfield

Cal State-Fullerton

Cal State-Northridge

Central Connecticut

Charleston Southern

Chicago State

Citadel

Coastal Carolina

Colgate

Colorado State

Delaware

Denver

Drake

Eastern Illinois

Eastern Michigan

Eastern Washington

Elon

Evansville

Fairfield

Fairleigh Dickinson

Florida Gulf Coast

Fordham

Fresno State

George Mason

Georgia Southern

Grambling

Hampton

Harvard

Hofstra

Houston Baptist

Howard

Idaho State

Illinois-Chicago

Illinois State

Indiana State

IUPU-Ft Wayne

Jackson State

James Madison

Kennesaw State

Lafayette

Lehigh

Louisiana-Monroe

Louisiana Tech

Loyola Marymount

Manhattan

Maryland Baltimore County

Maryland Eastern Shore

McNeese State

Missouri Kansas City

Missouri State

Monmouth

Montana State

Morgan State

Murray State

Nebraska Omaha

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey Tech

New Mexico

New Orleans (Was switching to Division 2, now staying in Division 1)

Nicholls State

Norfolk State

North Carolina A&T

North Carolina Central

North Carolina Greensboro

North Carolina Wilmington

North Dakota

North Dakota State

North Florida

North Texas

Northeastern

Northern Arizona

Northern Illinois

Northern Iowa

Northern Kentucky (Moving to D1 in 2012)

Oakland

Oral Roberts

Pacific

Prairie View

Presbyterian

Quinnipiac

Rice

Richmond

Sacramento State

Sacred Heart

Saint Francis (NY)

Saint Francis (PA)

Saint Mary’s

Saint Peter’s

San Diego State

Savannah State

Siena

South Alabama

South Carolina Upstate

South Dakota

South Florida

Southeast Missouri

Southeastern Louisiana

Southern Illinois

Southern Illinois-Edwardsville

Southern Mississippi

Southern Utah

Stephen F Austin

Stetson

Texas A&M Corpus Christi

Texas Arlington

Texas Pan American

Texas San Antonio

Towson

Troy

Utah Valley State

Vermont

Virginia Commonwealth (VCU)

Wagner

Weber State

Western Illinois

Western Michigan

Wichita State

Wisconsin Milwaukee

Wofford

Youngstown State

TOTALS: 139

TOTAL TEAMS: 346 (plus UK equals 347)

Blog Changes

After some serious thought and many, many starts and restarts, I have decided to make some major changes in my blog. It is no longer going to be strictly about Southern Gospel. I am just too far removed from Southern Gospel due to distance to be able to consistently post about Southern Gospel all the time.

I am NOT giving up on Southern Gospel. In fact, many of my posts will still be about the music I love. But, I have decided that I will also make posts on here about other topics and interests in my life. Maybe by doing this, I will be able to post more often on a wide variety of topics.

Off Topic

This has nothing to do with Southern Gospel but I wanted to post it here anyway.

MY UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WILDCATS WINS THE NCAA BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE EIGHTH TIME!!!

GO BIG BLUE!!!

Life Is Funny

When I made my last post on January 1st, I had no idea it would be this long before I would be able to make another post. I am still following Southern Gospel but not as much as I would like to.  The way things look right now, I will only be able to attend one concert this year. That will be on April 14th when my son and I see Legacy Five and Greater Vision in Dayton, Ohio.

Unless someone decides to pay all of our expenses, my son and I will not be able to attend the National Quartet Convention this year, or in the forseeable future. His health issues, especially his multiple sclerosis, are part of the reason but the biggest part is the cost. One of my goals this year was to be more responsible with my money and I realized that it is more important to get my debts paid off as quickly as possible than to attend NQC. That was a difficult decision but I know it was the right one.

I also had to cut down, okay pretty much eliminate, buying CD’s or digital downloads. I already have 668 records, cassette tapes, CD’s, and digital downloads so space was an issue with that as well. It was not unusual for me to come home from NQC with 30, 40, 50, or even 60 more for my collection. I’ve listened to every one of them at least once, but I am definitely running out of space. I have all of the CD’s copied to my computer and I would like to get all of my records and cassettes copied as well, along with a backup copy on another computer. I would then be able to listen to them whenever I wanted but could sell the originals and free up some space.

Anyway, to make a short story even longer, though I am still quite passionate about Southern Gospel, I just do not have the time or the money to devote to it as I would like to do. That is the biggest reason this blog has been so quiet this year. I will post when I have something to post but that will probably not be too often.

Thanks for reading!

2011 in review

I thought it might be interesting and fun to post this!

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,300 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Update And A Partial Concert Review

Once again life’s little circumstances have conspired against me! LOL

I have been so busy at work the past couple of months that I have had no time to do much else but work, eat, and sleep. On the plus side, I have been getting a ton of overtime. On the minus side, I have not been able to do much else.

I did get to see the Gaither Christmas Homecoming concert in Highland Heights, Kentucky on December 10th. Sort of. I had to leave at intermission and go to work because someone called off sick.

What I did get to see of the concert was very good. The Booth Brothers, The Martins, The Isaacs, Charlotte Ritchie, Kevin Williams, Gordon Mote, Buddy Greene, The Gaither Vocal band, and Gene McDonald all performed sets during the first half of the show, which went two hours and forty minutes. I really wanted to stay for the whole thing but I had to get to work. Fortunately for me, the day shift person agreed to stay over a few hours so that I could attend part of the show. Otherwise, I would have missed the whole thing.

I am hoping to be able to post more often now but I have hoped for that in the past as well and we have all seen that it never seems to work out. I will post when I can but I am not promising anything on a regular basis.

Congratulations

Congratulations to my friends Melissa and Paul Ladd, who sing as the Ladd Family, on the birth of their daughter Violet Marie Ladd. Miss Violet checked in at twenty-one inches long and weighing seven pounds, twelve ounces.

Congratulations to Melissa, Paul, and their son Elijah! Welcome to the world Violet Marie Ladd!