Merely 659 Division I victories later, James Leonard Hamilton, 76, will make his final appearance as a basketball coach in Kentucky at noon Saturday.

Rex Chapman says during his two seasons as a University of Kentucky basketball player, boosters handed him so much cash that he kept it in a shoebox under his bed at Wildcat Lodge.

Joe B. Hall showed the world how to follow a legend. His assignment was to follow Adolph Rupp at Kentucky. Hall did it as graciously and successfully as a legend can be followed.

Sutton won at programs where winning wasn’t always the narrative. His struggles stopped him, but they did not defeat him.