In his ninth season as Louisville basketball coach, Rick Pitino finds himself in new territory: unable to exceed his predecessor. In spite of a Final Four birth in 2005 and Elite Eight appearances in each of the last two seasons, Pitino has fallen well short of Denny Crum's first nine years as Cardinal coach. Unless this U of L basketball team suddenly transforms itself and wins an NCAA Championship in April, Denny Crum will remain, well, the Red Standard of Cardinal Basketball.
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.