From Eric Crawford of the Louisville Courier-Journal, “In the 64-team era of the NCAA Tournament, only two teams have done what UK is trying to do this year — go from the NIT to winning the NCAA championship. One of those is a team local fans are very familiar with — the 1986 University of Louisville Cardinals. The other was Syracuse in 2003.”
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.