The scouting report on the unheralded 6-2 high school sophomore from Chicago didn't foreshadow this. A perimeter-happy 3-point shooter with a developing handle and an uncanny ability to block shots for his size, read the report. The only college coach to offer him a scholarship saw potential — maybe an All-Horizon League guard eventually. Perhaps if he grew a few inches. “We thought he could grow,” Cleveland State coach Gary Waters recounted.
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.