
At this time of the year, there's hardly any satisfaction in coming this far. This Kentucky team, squeezed in between last year's super team and next year's sensational recruiting class, wasn't supposed to be in Houston. But judging by Terrence Jones' low-pitched voice, Brandon Knight's hung head and Josh Harrellson's bloodshot eyes, that hardly mattered. This one hurt just as much as last season's. It may have hurt even more. “When it ends,” head coach John Calipari said, “you fall off a cliff.”

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.