After his team beat Baylor to advance to the Final Four, Kentucky coach John Calipari asked, “Is the floor going to be raised (in the Superdome)? Does anybody know?” When it was confirmed that the floor indeed would be elevated a couple of feet above field level for the games, Cal replied with an oft-repeated, if unproven, shooter's theory. “That makes it harder. When they raise that floor, now it becomes a little harder,” he said. “So a team that doesn't shoot a whole lot of 3s has an advantage.”
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.