Basketball royalty in the Bluegrass suffered a quick downfall when points shaving came up. Find out who and when.
They were champions, legends in the Bluegrass—names that once dripped with glory now cloaked in infamy. The 1951 college basketball point-shaving scandal hit the sport like a sledgehammer. But nowhere did it cut deeper than in Lexington, where the University of Kentucky, a proud symbol of hardcourt excellence, found itself front and center in one of the darkest episodes in the history of American athletics.