Jack "Goose" Givens (born September 21, 1956) is a retired American collegiate and professional basketball player. Givens led the University of Kentucky to the 1978 NCAA Men\'s Division I Basketball Championship and was named that year\'s Final Four Most Outstanding Player due in most part to his 41-point performance in Kentucky\'s 94-88 victory over Duke University in the championship game. He was a 6\'5" (1.96 m), 205 lb (93 kg) forward.\n', '

Givens earned Kentucky Mr. Basketball and Parade All-America honors after his senior year at Lexington\'s Bryan Station High School in 1974. UK finished Givens\' freshman season as national runners-up, falling 92-85 to UCLA in the 1975 Final Four championship game. In 1978, Givens and Kentucky returned to the Final Four at the Checkerdome in Saint Louis, Missouri. After leading Kentucky to a semifinal victory over the University of Arkansas, he scored a career-high 41 points and made 18 of 27 field goal attempts against Duke to help Kentucky clinch their fifth NCAA Championship in men\'s basketball.\n', '

Givens lettered four times in varsity basketball from 1974–75 to 1977–78. In that span, he scored 2,038 points in 123 games (16.6 ppg), ranking third on the school\'s all-time scoring list. He was named first team all-Southeastern Conference three times from 1976 to 1978 and was a consensus second team All-American in 1978. Kentucky retired Givens\' #21 jersey and a banner in his honor hangs in the rafters of Rupp Arena, Kentucky\'s home court.\n', '

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