Willie Cauley-Stein had gone into hiding. It was Sunday, a day after his Kentucky basketball team had endured a 30-point loss at Tennessee, and Cauley-Stein had a foul taste in his mouth. He wanted nothing to do with the world. He closed it off. He went text-silent.
“I put a sheet over my window,” Cauley-Stein said Wednesday night. “It was just dark, and I could just watch Netflix all day and eat when I needed to. You just feel real depressed. I was, like, grumpy.”
By Wednesday night, he was smiling again. But the 7-foot freshman had made Vanderbilt pretty unhappy.
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.