re: Alabama football and Kentucky basketball...

SEC tournament championships by school:

1) Kentucky - 32
2) Alabama - 8
3) T-Tennessee - 5
3) T-Florida - 5

SEC regular season championships by school:

1) Kentucky - 50
2) Tennessee - 12
3) Alabama - 11
4) Florida - 7

If you add up totals for the 2-4 teams in either category Kentucky still has more.

What about Baseball? Or do you not titles in the 3 major sports?

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Always seemed to be a mutual respect and understanding between Bama and UK. We made this conference. One of the best conversations I ever had was at a Bama UK basketball game in Tuscaloosa, around 1999 or 2000 I believe, with some older UK fans sitting next to me. I was 21 at the time and it was just a pleasure to talk to the older UK fans at that time. Mutual respect and admiration for Bama football and UK basketball was a conversation I could have partaken in for days.

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I've had the same experience with Ky fans going all the way back to the late 60s. I was a Tide season ticket holder for many years when I lived in Tuscaloosa, and very much looked forward to both the huge Cat fan numbers, and their great knowledge of college basketball when they'd come to Tuscaloosa.
I once was at a small reception for Coach Rupp (I believe his last coaching year), and Coach Bryant. A lot of folks don't realize that they were BOTH coaches at UK for a while. What I remember most was the story that Coach Bryant told about the year (1950-1951) that Bryant won Kentucky's FIRST SEC championship, and Rupp won the Nat'l Championship
Coach Bryant told us that at the year-end Alumni Banquet, the University presented him with a beautiful gold watch with "SEC Champs" initialed on the back. After he thanked everyone for his fine watch, they called Coach Rupp up to the podium and presented him with.........a new Fleetwood Cadillac! Bryant said,"it was time to go!