Bruce Pearl smiled Thursday and said his banged-up senior center Wayne Chism has “a little Willis Reed” in him. The reference was to the former New York Knick's dramatic, limping entrance into Madison Square Garden to inspire the Knicks to victory in the 1970 NBA playoffs. Chism will play through pain Saturday when No. 2 Kentucky visits Tennessee. But the problem is – to continue the Reed analogy – the Vols don't have a Dave DeBusschere to play alongside Chism.
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.