The hiring of George Buchheit was a turning point for the Kentucky Wildcats basketball program. For years, it was team helmed by a series of one-off coaches and inconsistent results. Buchheit’s hiring put the Wildcats on a path to future success.
It didn’t take long for Kentucky to win a conference tournament under their new coach, and they followed up with another good season, although the didn’t win the tournament this time.
Heading into the 1922-23 season, the Kentucky program was gaining momentum. They were coming off of back to back winning seasons, and hoped to make it a third, but things wouldn’t quite go the way they planned.
In the next in a series of articles going through the history of Kentucky basketball, we’ll take a look at the 1922-23 season. It was a difficult one, but one of the last losing seasons the Wildcats would have for quite some time.
