March 16, 2025
Kentucky’s Patrick Patterson, let out a celebration yell while holding the SEC Tournament trophy with Ramon Harris, left, John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins after UK defeated Mississippi State, 75-74, in overtime on March 14, 2010, in Nashville. Kentucky trailed the Bulldogs by five with less than 90 seconds left in the game, but the contest was sent into overtime after a deliberately missed foul shot led to the game-tying bucket by Cousins just before the final horn. Wall then scored eight of Kentucky’s 11 points in the extra period to give UK its 26th SEC Tournament title. Photo by Mark Cornelison | Staff
Kentucky basketball coach Rick Pitino got a big hug from senior John Pelphrey after the Cats won the SEC Tournament onMarch 15, 1992, in Birmingham, Ala. UK stopped Alabama’s three-year championship run with a stunning 80-54 victory behind the Cats’ pressure defense. Alabama was coming off an emotionally draining one-point victory over Arkansas in the semifinals. The Tide did not roll as many in the crowd of 17,379 wanted. After a spirited 22 minutes, the Tide rolled over. Somewhere in the midst of UK’s 30-6 second-half run, Bama point guard Elliot Washington made an awful confession to his UK counterpart. “Their point guard said, ‘Look at those guys. They’re quitting on me,'” Sean Woods said. Jamal Mashburn, the tournament’s most valuable player, scored 10 of his game-high 28 points in the run. Pelphrey, who joined Mashburn on the five-man All-Tournament team, was appreciative. “This is the greatest thing I’ve been able to do so far in athletics,” he said. Photo by Charles Bertram | Staff
Kentucky basketball coach Eddie Sutton was carried off the court by Richard Madison, left, and Winston Bennett after the Cats’ March 8, 1986 victory over Alabama, 83-72 in the finals of the SEC Tournament at Rupp Arena in Lexington. Rupp Arena has hosted the conference tournament three times; 1982, 1986 and 1993. The Wildcats won two of those tournaments, losing in the 1982 tourney finals by two points to Alabama. Photo by Charles Bertram | Staff
This aerial photo shows Crosswoods Baptist Church, bottom, and Southland Christian Church on Harrodsburg Road in northern Jessamine County on March 6, 2000. At the time, Southland was expanding its parking lots. Harrodsburg Road has since been expanded to four lanes. Photo by Charles Bertram | Staff
The wedding of Adelia “Ada” Clooney and Norman Zeidler, center, included this moment with the Clooney family on March 14, 1987, on the banks of the Ohio River in Augusta. From left, Nina and her husband, Cincinnati WKRC-TV anchorman Nick Clooney; their daughter and new son-in-law; Nick’s sister, Hollywood star Rosemary Clooney; and the bride’s brother, actor George, age 26. The wedding was a hometown affair. A roll of fence wire, tied with gift ribbons, marked off the curb in front of the Clooneys’ Victorian frame house. Local friends with 1918 Ford Model T and other vintage cars drove the wedding party two blocks to St. Augustine Catholic Church and four blocks to the riverfront reception. Before the nuptial Mass, Rosemary sang a non-religious song of love and dedication, The Promise, for “only the second time I’ve sung it,” said the Concord Jazz recording star. “The first time I sang it was to my son (Gabriel Ferrer) when he married Debby Boone.” George read from The Song of Solomon, Psalms and Revelations in the wedding service. Outside the church, surrounded by a circle of seven girls, George Clooney said he couldn’t remember the name of his role in that night’s episode of the television series Murder, She Wrote. “I played ‘Kip’ — I think — but it was filmed 1 1/2 months ago,” George said. Said the mother of the bride, “The whole town” of Augusta — population 1,500 — “helped with the wedding. We couldn’t have gotten through it without them.” The city blocked off Parkview Street, which dead-ends at the river, for a tent to be set up for a reception for 300. The road surface was the dance floor for swinging to the seven-piece band Jerry Conrad’s Rhythm & Brass from Cincinnati. Photo by Jocelyn Williams
Kentucky basketball player Cameron Mills, right, hugged fellow senior Allen Edwards after the Senior Day ceremony before the team’s last home game on Feb. 22, 1998, at Rupp Arena. UK beat Georgia, 85-74, and Edwards was one of five Wildcats in double figures. Edwards finished his career with 819 points. Mills wrapped up his UK career with 365. Photo by Michelle Patterson-Thomas