A number of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball players have been honored with various Southeastern Conference and national awards.
Banner honorees
Forty-two former Kentucky men's basketball players, coaches, and contributors are honored in Rupp Arena with banners representing their numbers hung from the rafters. With the streamlining of jersey numbers by the NCAA, the jerseys are retired but the numbers remain active. To have a banner hung, the athlete must be elected to the UK Athletics Hall of Fame.[1]
The UK players listed here received at least one NCAA-recognized national player of the year award.
Oscar Tshiebwe is the first UK player to receive all of the NCAA-recognized national player of the year awards in a single season, doing so in 2021–22.
Wooden Award[7] Naismith Trophy[8] AP Player of the Year[9] NABC Player of the Year[10] Sporting News Player of the Year[11] Oscar Robertson Trophy[12]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award
The Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award has been presented by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame since 2015 to the top Division I center.
The following is a list of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball players that were named First or Second Team All-Americans:
Tony Delk was a Consensus First Team All-America selection in 1995-96.Tayshaun Prince was a Consensus First Team All-America selection in 2001 and 2002.John Wall was a Consensus First Team All-America selection in 2009-10.
Main article: Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Rookie of the Year
The following is a list of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball players who have been named either SEC Freshman of the Year (awarded by the league's head coaches, and open only to freshmen) or SEC Newcomer of the Year (awarded by the AP and open to any player in his first year at an SEC school, including transfers).
All listed players won both awards except for the following:
Patrick Patterson, a freshman who won the 2008 coaches' award while Nick Calathes of Florida, also a freshman, won the AP award.
Nerlens Noel, a freshman who won the 2013 coaches' award while junior college transfer Marshall Henderson of Ole Miss won the AP award.
One of the NCAA's main student-athlete awards is the Elite 90 Award (previously the Elite 88 and Elite 89), presented at the site of each of the NCAA's 90 annual championship finals. In Division I men's basketball, eligible individuals are those on the playing squads of all Final Four participants who have played at least two seasons at their current school. The recipient is the eligible player with the highest grade point average, with completed credit hours as a tiebreaker if needed.
Year
Player
Class
Position
2014
Sam Malone
Junior
Guard
NBA Draft Picks
Main article: List of Kentucky Wildcats in the NBA Draft
McDonald's All-Americans
The following is a list of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball players who have been named McDonald's All-Americans during their prep careers:
Wiltjer transferred to Gonzaga after the 2012–13 season.
Lee transferred to California after the 2015–16 season.
Travis began his college career at Stanford, playing there through the 2017–18 season. He graduated from Stanford with a year of remaining athletic eligibility and transferred to UK for the 2018–19 season.
Killeya-Jones transferred to NC State after the 2017–18 season.
Geeen transferred to Washington after the 2017–18 season.
Tshiebwe began his college career at West Virginia, transferring to Kentucky after the 2020 fall semester. He began play at UK in 2021–22.
Naismith Hall of Fame Members
The following Kentucky players, coaches, and contributors have been enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
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