College basketball has taken some real hits lately. The end of the Kentucky-Indiana series is a blow to the sport and the latest rivalry to go away. Think about the end of the Border War between Kansas and Missouri. I called the last meeting at Columbia and you can feel the emotion and passion of the two schools. Texasand Texas A&M, natural rivals, probably won't meet again on the hardwood after the Aggies left for the SEC. Down the line the Syracuse-Georgetown rivalry will come to a close. In the 1980s, that Big East pairing was as good as it gets.
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.