About 20 minutes past midnight Saturday morning, right after watching his top-seeded Buckeyes have their national championship dreams snuffed out by No. 4 seed Kentucky, Ohio State coach Thad Matta sat on a dais in the bowels of the Prudential Center, looking appropriately dejected. Matta, whose team had won 34 of its previous 36 games and was the NCAA tournament's No. 1 overall seed, actually took offense when a reporter questioned whether Kentucky was “supposed to be here.”
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.