Monday, December 3, 2012

Former Wildcat Dies


{Georgetown, Kentucky}…John Lloyd Crigler, a forward on Kentucky's 1958 national championship basketball team under coach Adolph Rupp, died Saturday in Georgetown at the age of 76. Crigler scored 14 points in the 1958 title game against Elgin Baylor's Seattle team. He played with teammates Johnny Cox, Ed Beck, Vernon Hatton and Adrian Smith. Crigler had been a teacher, coach and athletic director at Scott County High School for more than 40 years. Crigler was born in Hebron in Boone County, but he spent much of his life in Scott County.