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WUKY SportsPage catches up with former Wildcat great, Kevin Grevey

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UK Basketball Media Guide: '74-'75

The WUKY SportsPage podcast is back with this all-encompassing conversation with former Wildcat great Kevin Grevey. He talks about his recruitment to UK, his relationship with Coach Joe B. Hall, a college career that included an SEC championship in his sophomore season, a 13-13 season the next year, and a national runner-up season as he and his senior teammates capped their UK careers in 1975. He also reflects on the meaning of the NBA championship and the leadership that veteran Wes Unseld provided, inspiring a team that went 44-38 in the regular season to go all the way.

Kevin Grevey was an All-American basketball player at Kentucky, a two-time SEC player of the year, and is a charter member of the UK Athletics Hall of Fame. After playing for an undefeated UK freshman team in 1971-72, he scored 1,801 points in a three-year varsity career, and now ranks seventh among Kentucky’s all-time leaders. He was a first round draft pick of the Washington Bullets in 1975, and went on to a 10-year career in the NBA. He averaged 15 points a game for the Bullets NBA championship team of 1978.

Keith Elkins has an extensive background in broadcasting and public relations. He retired in 2017 after nine years as director of broadcasting and media relations for the Lexington Legends. He was the radio play-by-play announcer for the Legends, who played a 140-game schedule in the South Atlantic League as a class A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals. For 15 seasons, he was heard on halftime and postgame shows as the studio anchor on University of Kentucky basketball broadcasts on the UK sports network.Keith is a former television sports anchor and reporter with WLEX-TV in Lexington. Later, as a member of the University of Kentucky public relations staff, he produced and narrated many television features and promotional announcements on behalf of the university. Keith also has served as director of public relations at Transylvania University and worked in marketing communications with Wyncom, Inc. of Lexington. He returned to UK as director of communications in the UK College of Engineering, and was the editor of the College of Engineering alumni magazine, Quadrangle. He has served as host of the WUKY Sports Page podcast since 2019.Keith is a native of Bedford, Indiana, a graduate of the University of Kentucky and a longtime Lexington resident. He has two adult sons and two grandsons.