Wallace Jones
ABOUT WALLACE JONES
Late basketball player nicknamed "Wah Wah" who won two NCAA National Championships at the University of Kentucky. He later went on to play for the NBA's short-lived Indianapolis Olympians organization from 1949 to 1952.
He set a national scoring record at Harlan High School. In addition to basketball, he was also an All-State football and baseball player.
He won four consecutive SEC titles at Kentucky and led the team to an astonishing 130-10 record over that span.
He has a younger sister named Jackie.
Remarkably, he was also an All-American college football player under then-Kentucky head coach Paul Bear Bryant .
