Jack Givens

Jack "Goose" Givens (born September 21, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6-foot-5-inch, 205-pound forward, he played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats, where he earned consensus second-team All-American honors.

Givens earned Kentucky Mr. Basketball and Parade All-American honors after his senior year at Lexington's Bryan Station High School in 1974. As a freshman at the University of Kentucky, he helped the Wildcats reach the 1975 Final Four, where they finished as national runners-up, falling 92–85 to UCLA in the championship game. In 1978, Givens and Kentucky returned to the Final Four at the Checkerdome in St. Louis, Missouri. After leading Kentucky to a semifinal victory over Arkansas, he scored a career-high 41 points, making 18 of 27 shots, in the Wildcats' 94–88 win over Duke in the championship game. The performance earned him Final Four Most Outstanding Player honors and delivered Kentucky the 1978 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.

Givens went on to play professionally in the NBA for the Atlanta Hawks. He also played overseas in Japan.