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After long wait, Kentucky Wildcats rise back to top

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Pat Forde talks to John Clay - photo by Walter Cornett | WildcatWorld.com

This article was written by Pat Forde of ESPN.com.  I sat next to him in the media room at the post-Arkansas press conference.  He’s taller in person than he looks on the internet.  From Mr. Forde, “Welcome back, Kentucky. Where you been all this time? Unless we have a ballot-rigging that would horrify even Chicago politicians, the Wildcats will be No. 1 Monday when the new Top 25 polls are released. The last unbeaten team in America made that clear by humiliating Arkansas 101-70 in a game that wasn’t quite as close as the Little Bighorn score.”

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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.

On This Day in UK Basketball History

On December 28, 1959, No. 13 Kentucky defeated No. 3 Ohio State 96-93.  Kentucky’s Billy Ray Lickert (29 points) and Bennie Coffman (26) outdueled Ohio State stars Jerry Lucas (34) and John Havlicek (16) before 13,000 in Memorial Coliseum.  Ohio State went on to win the 1960 NCAA title.

 

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