GO UK: Joe B. Hall Traditional Cache
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March Madness inspired me to place this Geo Art to encourage the Cat's in the NCAA Tournament. This series is located in the John C. Williams Wildlife Management Area and incorporates 6 existing caches along with 47 new ones to hike and find. Look at the map and zoom to see the GO UK. Bring a writing tool to sign the log sheet.
Joe B. Hall was the head basketball coach at Kentucky from 1972 to 1985. Although he had been an assistant at Kentucky since 1965, Coach Hall was given a difficult task: to follow in the footsteps of his legendary predecessor, Adolph Rupp. In the 1978 NCAA Tournament, he coached the Wildcats to their fifth NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. He was named National Coach of the Year in 1978 and SEC Coach of the Year on four different occasions. His record at UK was 297–100, and 373–156 over his career. Along with the 1978 title, Hall also guided Kentucky to a runner-up finish to UCLA in the 1975 NCAA tournament (which included an upset of heavily-favored and previously undefeated Indiana in a regional final), a Final Four appearance in the 1984 NCAA Tournament (losing to eventual champion Georgetown), and an NIT championship in 1976. He won eight SEC regular season championships and one SEC tournament championship (1984). (In this context, the SEC abolished its conference tournament in 1953 and did not reinstate it until 1979.) Coach Hall is one of only three men to both play on a NCAA championship team (1949– Kentucky) and coach a NCAA championship team (1978– Kentucky), and the only one to do so for the same school.
Joe Beasman Hall was inducted to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012
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