re: Greatest franchise in Each sport All Time

except when they didnt in the mid 60s and early 70s

look i was just pointing out that you can clearly make an argument for either the lakers or the celtics

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look i was just pointing out that you can clearly make an argument for either the lakers or the celtics

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I know what you are saying.. BUT.. ILOVE THE LAKERS and SHOWTIME.............. But I would take the CELTS OVERALL.......... Look at how many titles they won in a row............ UNHEARD of.........

lakers have 1 fewer championship and have more everything else. besides, no one has reached their level of sustained success. the lakers have never had anything like what happened to boston in the 90s up until the big 3 came in 2007

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Bama was OK. But not great until BEAR.

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Not true at all. Alabama dominated southern football throughout the 20s and 30s and had some great teams in the 40s. From 1904-1951, Alabama didn't have a single losing season. Bryant didn't get to Tuscaloosa as the head man until 1958.

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Football - Saints

Baseball - LSU baseball

Basketball - Pelicans

Hockey - Mighty Ducks

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kywildcatfanone

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College BBALL= UCLA over Kentucky by a MILE...................

your obvious only criteria was titles. in which the celtics only have one more. even when the majority of them were won in the 60s in a ten team league. and even though the lakers have more everything else

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your obvious only criteria was titles.

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Sigh....

Here you go...

All Time Wins: 2103 (NCAA rank #1)
All Time Winning Percentage .763 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Championships: 8 (NCAA rank #2)
NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 11 (NCAA rank #2)
Final Four Appearances: 15 (NCAA rank #3)
Final Four Games Played: 26 (NCAA rank #4)
Final Four Wins: 19 (NCAA rank #2)
Elite-8 Appearances: 34 (NCAA rank #1)
Sweet-16 Appearances: 39 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Appearances: 52 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Wins: 111 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Games Played: 157 (NCAA rank #1)
NCAA Tournament Winning Percentage: .707 (NCAA rank #4)
Total Postseason Tournament Appearances (NCAA and NIT): 60 (NCAA rank #1)
NBA Draft Picks: 106 (NCAA rank #1)
All-Americans: 55 (NCAA rank #1)
All-American Total Selections: 85 (NCAA rank #1)
First Team Consensus All-Americans: 19 (NCAA rank #2)
First Team Consensus All-American Total Selections: 24 (NCAA rank #4)
AP Poll Top-20/25 Weeks Ranked All Time: 787 (NCAA rank #2)
AP Poll Top-10 Weeks Ranked All Time: 628 (NCAA rank #1)
AP Poll Top-5 Weeks Ranked All Time: 417 (NCAA rank #1)
AP Poll #1 Weeks Ranked All Time: 99 (NCAA rank #4)
Final AP Poll Top-25 Finishes: 48 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-20 Finishes: 48 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-15 Finishes: 43 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-10 Finishes: 40 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll Top-5 Finishes: 28 (NCAA rank #1)
Final AP Poll #1 Finishes: 9 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-25 Finishes: 46 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-20 Finishes: 45 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-15 Finishes: 42 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-10 Finishes: 38 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll Top-5 Finishes: 29 (NCAA rank #1)
Final UPI/Coaches' Poll #1 Finishes: 8 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 20-Win Seasons: 56 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 25-Win Seasons: 31 (NCAA rank #2)
Total 30-Win Seasons: 13 (NCAA rank #1)
Total 35-Win Seasons: 5 (NCAA Rank #1)
Average Victories Per Season Played: 19.1743119266 (NCAA rank #3)
Average Losses Per Season Played: 5.95412844036 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Winning Seasons: 92 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Non-Losing Seasons (.500 or better): 95 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Coaches With a NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 3 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Coaches with a Final Four Appearance: 5 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Coaches With Multiple Final Four Appearances: 4 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades With a NCAA Championship Game Appearance: 6 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Championship Game Appearances: 4 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With a Final Four Appearance: 7 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With Multiple Final Four Appearances: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Coaches With A NCAA Championship: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Coaches With Multiple NCAA Championships 1 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades With a NCAA Championship: 5 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades With Multiple NCAA Championships: 3 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades #1 in Total Wins (since 1930): 1 (NCAA rank #2)
Total Decades Top-5 in Total Wins (since 1930): 4 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades Top-10 in Total Wins (since 1930: 7 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades #1 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 2 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades Top-5 in Winning Percentage (since 1930): 6 (NCAA rank #1)
Total Decades Top-10 in Winning Percentage (since 1930) 7 (NCAA rank #1)
Conference Regular Season Championships: 47 (NCAA rank #2)
Conference Tournament Championships: 28 (NCAA rank #1)
National Attendance Titles: 24 (NCAA rank #1)

(Of the 64 major categories listed above, Kentucky is #1 in 44 of them, #2 in 14 of them, #3 in 2 of them, and #4 in 4 of them.)

Kentucky Can also lay claim to several individual achievements for both players and coaches:

13 players winning NBA Championships a total of 18 times
10 players named NBA All-Star a total of 17 times
12 Olympic Gold Medal winners
8 Naismith Hall-of-Fame members
5 players named National Player-of-the-Year
6 head coaches named National Coach-of-the-Year a total of 12 times
7 head coaches named Conference Coach-of-the-Year a total of 21 times
131 players named All-Conference a total of 224 times
77 players named All-Conference Tournament a total of 113 times
12 players named Conference Player-of-the-Year a total of 14 times
18 players named All-NCAA Final Four a total of 24 times
48 players named All-NCAA Regional a total of 62 times
11 players named NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Player a total of 12 times
5 players named NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player a total of 6 times
72 players who played in the NBA at least one season
60 1000 point scorers
42 players named McDonald's All-American
11 times a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament

Kentucky also holds several other NCAA records and various additional accomplishments:

Kentucky has 2 NIT Titles (1946, 1976), 2 Helms Titles (1933, 1954), 2 undefeated seasons (1912, 1954), 5 Sugar Tournament Championships (1937, 1939, 1949, 1956, 1963), a league best all time SEC regular season record of 907-251(.783), and a league best all time SEC Tournament record of 119-23 (.834).

Kentucky holds the NCAA record for Consecutive Non-Losing Seasons (60), for Consecutive Home Court Victories (129), and for Total Victories in a Season (38).

Kentucky plays in the nation's largest basketball arena (Rupp Arena, capacity: 23,500), and has both the nation's largest radio and television affiliate networks.

Kentucky has made a 3-point basket in 847 consecutive games (3rd-most all time), has won 16 of the last 17 National Attendance Titles (including the last 7 in a row), is the only school to win multiple NCAA (8) and NIT (2) Championships, is the only school to have 5 different NCAA Championship coaches, is the only school to win NCAA Championships in 5 different decades, and is the only school to win multiple NCAA Championships in 3 different decades.

Kentucky has played before both the largest regulation basketball game crowd in history (78,129), and the largest Final Four Crowd in history (75,421).

Kentucky was the first school (in 2010) to have 5 players selected in the 1st-Round of the NBA draft, is the only school to have both the #1 and #2 picks in the NBA draft during the same year (in 2012), is the only school to have 6 players drafted in the first two rounds of the NBA draft in one year (in 2012), is the only school to have two different coaches win a NCAA Championship within the same decade (the 1990's), and also was the first school to reach both the 1000-win and 2000-win victory plateaus.

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Peej, you are showing why so many laugh at you on here.

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Did UK win 7 [SEVEN] Titles in a row??? A RECORD that will NEVER be broken...... WOODEN>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>RUPP and its NOT that close.................. Deal with it.................