 In the 1924-25 season, his team nearly doubled up the University of Kentucky basketball team's score, 29–16, after being invited to play against the Wildcats in their brand new Alumni Gymnasium.It was one of only 24 times the Kentucky team lost in that gym through the next 26 years.Yet his Cavaliers defeated Kentucky again, 31–28, when they returned the favor to visit Memorial Gymnasium in 1928.