“Coach, it feels like you're doing this a year too late or a year too early.” That's how one reporter started a question to Kentucky coach John Calipari after the Cats' 76-69 win over North Carolina that punched their ticket to the Final Four this week in Houston. Since seeding began in the NCAA Tournament in 1979, Kentucky has never advanced to a Final Four as anything lower than a No. 2 – until now. And despite the barrage of 3s that UK rained down on North Carolina, former Georgetown coach John Thompson was more impressed…
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.