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Kentucky freshman Brandon Knight is Wildcats’ workhorse

Efrem Knight works graveyard shifts as an engineer for Florida East Coast Railways, transporting cargo sometimes for 12 hours at time. So don’t tell his son Brandon, a heralded freshman point guard at the University of Kentucky, how hard it is to balance basketball and academics.

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Brandon Knight - photo by Jerry S. Mendoza | AP

Efrem Knight works graveyard shifts as an engineer for Florida East Coast Railways, transporting cargo sometimes for 12 hours at time. So don’t tell his son Brandon, a heralded freshman point guard at the University of Kentucky, how hard it is to balance basketball and academics.

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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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