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Future Cat Anthony Davis is guaranteeing a national championship at Kentucky next year

Anthony Davis - photo by Kelly Kline | NikeNearly 10 months ago, Anthony Davis was a relative unknown in the basketball world. Now the high-flying, freakishly-athletic forward has a bold message to send to the rest of the nation.  “Next year at Kentucky, we’re winning the national championship,” he said. “I guarantee it.”  That’s an audacious statement for someone who hasn’t even arrived to campus yet. But if Davis’s collegiate trajectory mirrors his meteoric high school rise, it’s within the realm of possibility.

 

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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.

On This Day in UK Basketball History

On December 1, 1950, UK plays its first game in the new, $3.9 million, 11,500-seat Memorial Coliseum. Skeptics label the building a “white elephant.”  The Wildcats made the first game played in Memorial Coliseum a memorable one as they routed the West Texas State Buffaloes.

 

On December 1, 2011, Kentucky blocked 18 St. John's shots for the most blocks ever recorded by a Kentucky team.

 

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