The Big Blue Nation mourns the loss of legendary men’s basketball coach Joe B. Hall. Coach Hall was interviewed for the Nunn Center by former player Kyle Macy on January 1, 2015 for the University of Kentucky Athletics Men’s Basketball Oral History Project, and Macy’s television program From the Rafters of Rupp. Before coaching the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team to the 1978 NCAA Championship, Hall played college basketball at the University of Kentucky and the University of the South, he toured with the Harlem Globetrotters, he coached high school basketball, as well as coached at Regis College and Central Missouri State University, eventually coming to the University of Kentukcy as an assistant coach to Adolph Rupp. Hall was named the head coach 1972.
The Nunn Center has launched a new initiative called “the TeleStory Archive” where you can call in on a telephone and record stories for the archive. We encourage you to call in and share your favorite stories about UK basketball coach Joe B. Hall by calling the TeleStory Archive at 833-859-7272 (toll free).
Take a moment to listen to the latest episode of Saving Stories featuring the interview with coach Joe B. Hall: https://www.wuky.org/local-regional-news/2022-01-21/saving-stories-coach-hall-recalls-his-big-game-gamble
You can access the Nunn Center’s full oral history interview with Joe B. Hall at: https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7zn790r93xx