... in 2000, Kentucky head coach Orlando “Tubby” Smith earned a gold medal as an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic basketball team in Sydney, Australia. He was the latest in a long line of Wildcats to earn an Olympic gold. In the gold medal game, Alonzo Mourning and Kevin Garnett keyed the Americans down the stretch to pull away from the French 85-75. For the third straight Olympiad the American’s team was chock full of NBA players. While the U.S. used a mixture of professional and collegiate athletes for the international tournaments and trials leading up to the games in 1998-99, the roster was mostly chosen off performance from the 1999-2000 NBA season. Tubby Smith joined Adolph Rupp as the only Kentucky head coach to win a gold medal.
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