The biggest little city in Kansas.

Annual Adolph Rupp Invitational Basketball Tournament
Steve Seirer
Halstead High School
316-835-2682

Honoring Coach Adolph F. Rupp, the winningest coach in college basketball, whose boyhood home was Halstead, Kansas.

Adolph F. Rupp
"Baron of Basketball"

Born and raised in Halstead, Kansas (Sept 2, 1901).

Retired with 876 wins. Most wins in NCAA History.

Member of the 1922 and 1923 teams at Kansas University that won the Helms Foundation National Championships (coach Forest Allen).

Head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats for 42 seasons with a compiled winning percentage of 82%.

Halstead High School

The third week of January is a great time to be in Halstead, Kansas. Our coaches and players feel a strong sense of pride in getting to host the Rupp Tournament every year. It seems as though the Rupp proves itself to be one of the most competitive 2A, 3A, 4A tournaments in the state when it is all said and done. Last season, five of the eight teams in the Rupp ended up playing in the state tournament.

Our season has been a struggle thus far, although I feel like we’ve played a pretty competitive schedule overall. The highlight of they year to this point was beating Hillsboro at home, but we enter the tournament having lost three games in a row (two to Wichita Collegiate) and find ourselves trying to get on the right track. Unfortunately, the Rupp Tournament has no teams in it which would make for an ‘easy win.’ But that keeps with the long held tradition of the tournament. Teams here are well coached, play hard, win and lose with class, and do things the right way on and off the floor. We are excited to be a part of such a great tournament again.