Joe B. Hall (1928-2022) American College Basketball Coach

Joe B. Hall (1928-2022) American College Basketball Coach dies at 15 January 2022 ( 93 years). Find a grave Joe B. Hall Bio, Life and career.

Name	Joe B. Hall
Full Name	Joe Beasman Hall
Age	93 years
Birth	30 November 1928
Birthplace	Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky, United States
Death	15 January 2022
Deathplace	Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA
Profession	College Basketball Coach
Party	Alliance for Democracy in Mali (1990–2001) Rally for Mali (2001–2022)
Children	Kathy Summers, Judy Derrickson
Spouse	Katharine Dennis Hall (married ?–2007)
Burial	The Lexington Cemetery Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, USA
Nationality	American

Joe B. Hall American College Basketball Coach

He was long-time coach for the University of Kentucky from 1972 to 1985. He was hired by Aldoph Rupp to which the arena is named in Lexington.

He coached teams to many titles: one NCAA Division I (1978), 3 NCAA Division I Regional—Final Four (1975, 1978, 1984), one NIT (1976), one MIAA regular season (1965) eight SEC titles (1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982–1984) and one SEC Tournament (1984).

He received awards of National Coach of the Year and four SEC Coach of the Year awards. He had a thoroughbred horse farm after retiring from coaching.

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Joe B. Hall Biography

Hall played one year of varsity basketball at Kentucky before transferring to the Sewanee: The University of the South, where he completed his basketball playing eligibility but did not graduate. After Sewanee, Hall toured with the Harlem Globetrotters and later returned to Kentucky to complete his undergraduate studies. Hall graduated from Kentucky in 1955.

Hall previously coached at the Central Missouri State College (now the University of Central Missouri) and Regis University before returning to Kentucky in 1965 to serve as an assistant coach under Adolph Rupp. When Rupp reached mandatory retirement age of 70, Hall was selected as the new coach on April 1, 1972. In his initial statements upon taking the job he made it clear that he would recruit black players to the team (previously there had only been three in the program’s history).

In the 1978 NCAA Tournament, he coached the Wildcats to their fifth NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship. He was named National Coach of the Year in 1978 and Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year on four occasions. His record at UK was 297–100, and 373–156 over his career. Along with the 1978 title, Hall also guided Kentucky to a runner-up finish to UCLA in the 1975 NCAA tournament, a Final Four appearance in the 1984 NCAA Tournament (losing to eventual champion Georgetown), and an NIT championship in 1976. He won eight Southeastern Conference regular season championships and one Southeastern Conference tournament championship.

On September 18, 2012, the University of Kentucky unveiled a statue of Hall outside of the Wildcat Coal Lodge to commemorate his accomplishments at UK and his contributions toward the Wildcat Coal Lodge. The university said that the bronze sculpture was produced over a period of eight months, beginning as a clay sculpture, then was cast in bronze. It was created by sculptor J. Brett Grill of Columbia, Missouri.^{[citation needed]} Joe B. Hall (1928-2022) American College Basketball Coach

Hall co-hosted a radio sports talk show with former University of Louisville basketball head coach Denny Crum from March 2004 to October 2014. The Joe B. and Denny Show ended on October 30, 2014, after WVLK-FM, the Lexington station from which Hall did his portion of the show, announced a change in format.