One team won 34 games, completed an undefeated romp through the Southeastern Conference during the regular season, got refocused with a SEC Tournament championship game loss and went on to win a national championship, defeating one of only two teams to beat it along the way. The other team won 38 games, completed an undefeated romp through the SEC during the regular season, got refocused with a SEC Tournament championship game loss and went on to win a national championship, defeating one of only two team to beat it along the way. They are both considered among the best college basketball teams of the past 25 years, but just how would the 1996 and 2012 Kentucky teams fare against each other? With members of that devastatingly good 1996 NCAA title team back on campus for the John Calipari Fantasy Camp the question was hanging there like a belt-high curveball.
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.