Basketball Lancaster was an assistant to Adolph Rupp for 22 years, hired to replace
Paul McBrayer when McBrayer took the head coaching job at
Eastern Kentucky. He was at Rupp's side for UK's first four NCAA Championships (1948, 1949, 1951, 1958) and "Rupp's Runts" of 1966, that finished NCAA Runner-Up.
Baseball Lancaster served as
Kentucky's head baseball coach for 16 seasons over two stints (1947, 1951–1965). He had an overall record of 163-164-1. Through 1958, the Wildcats had only one winning season under Lancaster, when they went 8–7 in 1952. From 1959 to 1965, however, the team did not finish below .500 and won more than 15 games four times. It finished as high as second in the
SEC East, in 1961. ==Legacy==