John Wall, the most decorated freshman in University of Kentucky basketball history, sat in front of his locker after Saturday’s stunning 73-66 NCAA East Regional loss to West Virginia and could not believe it was over. “I don’t want to take the uniform off,” he said as managers started to pack equipment away. “… One minute you’re rolling, the next it’s all over.” Want to talk about a transition game? In the time it takes to say “three-point takedown,” West Virginia shocked the No. 1-seed Wildcats and spun the story of their season from how fast they brought the program back to how hard they fell.
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.