Kentucky coach John Calipari has practiced his young team in football pads and put them in front of punching bags to toughen them up. But it's what he said that gave the 20th-ranked Wildcats (21-8 overall, 9-6 Southeastern Conference) the edge against Vanderbilt on Tuesday. “They held onto the rope,” he said of the two-point win over the Commodores. He hopes the Wildcats carry that tug-of-war mindset into Sunday's game at Tennessee.
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.