July 30th marks roughly 100 days until the 2018-19 season tipoff for the 100th season of WKU Hilltopper Basketball, and over the next 100 days, WKU Athletics will treat fans to unique moments and interesting history from Hilltopper Basketball, all leading up to the start of the season in November.
| DAY 20 (October 17) |
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| A crowd including newspaper editors, reporters and guests gathers during the halftime of a WKU Basketball in the Physical Education building in 1950. Persons in the crowd include John Gaines and Clarence Gaines of Park City Daily News, Joe Lovett of Murray Ledger & Times, Governor Keen Johnson, W.T. Davis of the Lyon County Herald Ledger and Malcolm Black, director of Glasgow State Hospital. |
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| DAY 19 (October 18) |
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| In honor of Hilltopper Hysteria, Brett McNeal busts out of a banner at Midnight Mania in 1987. Midnight Mania was the tipoff event for WKU Basketball prior to the creation of Hilltopper Hysteria. |
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| DAY 18 (October 19) |
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| Even when E.A. Diddle was no longer coaching on the sidelines, he could often be found on the baseline leading the crowd and band in cheers. |
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| DAY 17 (October 20) |
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| Members of the 1947-48 Hilltopper squad pose for a picture for the WKU Talisman. |
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| DAY 16 (October 21) |
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| On Feb. 16, 1960, WKU hosted Eastern Kentucky in the Physical Education Building. WKU pushed a commanding 38-20 lead with less than seven minutes left in the first half. In a series of events, sophomore Bobby Rascoe comes up with a steal and, as he approached the basket, he was hit from behind by a pair of EKU players desparately trying to catch up. As the three players toppled out of bounds near the Hilltopper bench, WKU coaches attempted to stop the group as they headed for the stands. Eventually, a foul is called along with an Eastern timeout. The EKU coach sent his team to the locker room in protest of the foul and the game is eventually forfeited with a final score of WKU 38, EKU 20. Charlie Osborne and Don Parsons make up 24 of the Tops' 38 points, the only two players to score in double figures. |
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| DAY 15 (October 22) |
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| Ed Stansbury (left) and E.A. Diddle (right) return home from the 1942 NIT. Stansbury, great uncle of current head coach Rick Stansbury, had a long-tenured career on The Hill as both a player and coach. He graduated in 1930 after completing a three-sport career at WKU, playing football, basketball and baseball. He returned to The Hill as a coach in 1936, leading the tennis team while also assisting with football and basketball. The teams he was associated with culminated a combined record of 234 wins with only 47 losses and five ties. He served in the military in World War II in Europe, the Pacific and the Pentagon. In 1946, Ed Stansbury was named the Director of Athletics, head of the Department of Health and Physical Education and assistant football and basketball coach. He returned to the United States Air Force mid-1948 and retired from the military in 1961. Ed Stansbury passed away at the age of 103 in 2009. The main concourse in Diddle Arena was named in his honor. He is a member of the WKU Athletic Hall of Fame and the WKU Hall of Distinguished Alumni. |
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| DAY 14 (October 23) |
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| WKU's 1936 Hilltopper squad pauses during a team reunion to snap a picture. The team tallied 26 wins and only four losses in its time on The Hill. |
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| DAY 13 (October 24) |
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| Dero Downing presents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith with their son Dwight Smith's posthumous degree in Princeton, Ky. All-Century Team member Dwight Smith was the top rebounding guard in NCAA Division I basketball during his career from 1965-67. He was picked 23rd overall in the 1967 NBA Draft. Dwight passed away in an automobile accident in May of that year, shortly after being drafted. Downing was named WKU President in 1969. |
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| DAY 12 (October 25) |
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| WKU and No. 19 Villanova tip off the 1971 NCAA Final Four on March 25. The Hilltoppers fell to the Wildcats in double overtime in Houston, 92-89. WKU would go on to win the third-place game against No. 4 Kansas. |
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| DAY 11 (October 26) |
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| In honor of Media Day, Justin Johnson and ESPN's Fran Fraschilla talk in Times Square on the eve of the 2018 NIT Final Four. |
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