John Wall has Kentucky poised to claim the No. 1 ranking in the national college basketball polls. In a column in USA Today last week, Dick Vitale named Wall the midseason national player of the year. Last week, the freshman point guard appeared on a regional cover of Sports Illustrated that proclaimed him the best player in college basketball. So why isn’t Wall playing closer to home?
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.