Here are eight colleges that won an NBA MVP award before Kentucky: Holy Cross, San Francisco, Massachusetts, Indiana State, Navy, Louisiana Tech, Davidson and Arizona State.
It seems hard to grasp, given Kentucky's overwhelming success in men’s basketball since the early days of the sport, that the school had never had an NBA MVP before Wednesday. But that is the truth—or it was, until the streak was broken by Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.
