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John Wall leads Jay Bilas’ Mid-season All-America team

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John Wall - photo by Walter Cornett | WildcatWorld.com

From Jay Bilas of ESPN, “At the start of conference play, we have a body of work from the nation’s best players, albeit an incomplete one. Instead of projecting which players will be on our final All-America team or projecting which players will be the top picks in the NBA draft, let’s select our first-team All-Americans right now, by position, based upon performance to date.”

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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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