Hookshots in the sky. I can fly twice as high… (Image via bigbluehistory.net)
The 2015 Allstate® SEC Basketball Legends were announced today. Kentucky’s representative will be two-time All-American Bob Burrow.
He is member of UK’s 1,000 point club (1,023) despite playing just two years of playing with the Wildcats. In his 51 games, the 6′ 7″ center averaged roughly 20 points a game and an insane 16.1 rebounds a game. In a Q&A by A Sea of Blue in 2008, Bob talks about losing to Georgia Tech on January 8, 1955, breaking UK’s 129-game winning streak in Memorial Coliseum.
The Kentucky athletic director who retired Burrow’s #50 jersey in 1999, C. M. Newton, is also named to the 2015 Allstate® SEC Basketball Legends list. C. M. will be representing Alabama for his tenure as head basketball coach from 1968 until 1980. During his tenure, the Crimson Tide earned 3 SEC Titles (1974, 1975 and 1976) and 7 post-season berths, including 2 NCAA Tournament appearances and 1 NCAA Sweet 16 appearance. Newton also led the charge towards integrating Alabama athletics by signing the basketball team’s first African-American player in 1968.
Newton and Burrow will be recognized at halftime of his institution’s first game at the tournament.
“The Allstate® SEC Basketball Legends Program allows us to honor our past and show everyone why the SEC is one of the nation’s premier basketball conferences,” said SEC Commissioner Mike Slive and probably not just a public relations writer who made up something complimentary about the Legends program that Mike Slive would say.
