According to CoachCal.com, Coach John Calipari and David Scott, the editor of CoachCal.com, tried to go to Maurice's BBQ for a lunch buffet before the game in Columbia, South Carolina. They had some difficulty finding one big enough to accommodate a lunch buffet and after their third non-buffett Maurice's, they settled on the gourmet stylings of The Waffle House. Coach had Waffle House the morning of the Louisville game as well. That's two big wins on the road attributed to stops at Waffle House.
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.