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March 30, 1998: Record rally from halftime ends with 7th national title

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Walter Cornett
November 5, 2009

Cementing their place in UK lore, The Comeback Cats of Jeff Sheppard, Nazr Mohammed and Scott Padgett rallied from 10 down at halftime to make Tubby Smith the fourth different Kentucky coach to win an NCAA championship.

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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.

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