So just how much do you know about Kentucky’s basketball history? Here’s a timeline of great moments tracing more than a century of our state’s roundball heritage.

• First basketball games in Kentucky are played at the old YMCA gym in Louisville.
  
  
• Berea College organizes its first basketball team.

• Despite objections from the women’s physical education director, student interest leads to the first women’s basketball team at the University of Kentucky.
  
  
• Transylvania University and Centre College begin playing basketball.

• UK men’s team plays its first-ever game against Georgetown College. Georgetown wins 15-6.

• Eastern Kentucky University fields a team for the first time. They’re known as the “Maroons.”
  
  
• University of Louisville fields first team.

• After officially becoming the “Wildcats,” UK’s men boast their first perfect season with a 9-0 record.

• Western Kentucky University fields first women’s basketball team.

• First unofficial state high school tournament is played at Centre College. Henderson wins the championship.

• Lexington High (Henry Clay) wins the state’s first Kentucky High School Athletic Association-sanctioned state tournament.

• Led by center Ed Diddle, the Centre College team goes 11-0 and is hailed as the best team in the South.

• KHSAA begins sponsorship of a girls’ bracket in the state tournament.

• UK wins its first major basketball championship, taking the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association Tournament and the title “Basketball Champion of the South.”

• Ed Diddle, coach of WKU’s men’s and women’s teams, defeats UK’s women’s team, coached by law school student A.B. “Happy” Chandler, to win the Kentucky state women’s championship.

• Ashland beats the Carr Creekers in a now-legendary four-overtime high school game.

• Morehead State University fields its first team.

• Beating out 71 other applicants, Adolph Rupp is hired to coach UK’s men’s team.