Demarcus Cousins - photo from UKAthletics.com
Chants of “Go Big Red” bounced down from the overhead dome. “Overrated” even echoed from a few thousand leftover West Virginia fans. Boos berated the Kentucky players every 30 seconds. This was every bit a road game. In hostile territory, nearly 85 percent of the 22,271 fans in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y., wanted Kentucky to lose. The Cinderella story was all that mattered to those 17,000 rabid pro-Cornell fanatics. Whether Cornell blood ran through their veins, it didn’t matter. Taking down big, bad Kentucky was the only outcome that would satisfy.
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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