Kentucky was down two points with 16.6 seconds remaining when John Calipari huddled his team, grabbed a dry erase board and designed a play that never was properly executed. A Brandon Knight layup? That would've been terrific. A drive and dish to Doron Lamb? Also acceptable. But nobody on the UK bench really wanted a DeAndre Liggins 3-pointer.So you can understand the anxiety Calipari must have felt when his entire season — and, in many ways, his coaching reputation — hung in the balance…
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.