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Cats won’t be remembered for falling short

Ramon Harris - AP Photo

Ramon Harris - AP Photo

Standing on the precipice of greatness, perspective is easy to lose. So when the Cats stunningly fell just short of the Final Four, they fell hard.  A team whose 13 players had combined to play in six NCAA Tournament games before this year’s go-around often struggled to find the right reaction this year but before, there was always another chance somewhere.  But Saturday — after a shocking series of events in which UK forgot how to make its three-point shots, and then forgot almost immediately how to say “no” to the trey — that chance for redemption tomorrow vanished.

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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.

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