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Darius Miller ready to be senior leader

Darius Miller

Darius Miller is looking forward to being a team leader next season. It’s a role the former former Mr. Basketball has backed away from in his three seasons with the Wildcats, but he is ready to take on a new challenge and welcomes the opportunity to lead a team stocked with several returnees and a heralded freshman class.  “I feel comfortable with it,” the former Mason County standout and Kentucky forward said recently. “I can’t wait to get the season started. I’m just going to do the best I can to get better over the summer.”

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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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On This Day in UK Basketball History

On March 19, 1966, in one of the biggest upsets in NCAA Tournament history, top-ranked UK, featuring “Rupp’s Runts,” loses in the NCAA Championship game, 72-65, to Texas Western.

 

On March 19, 1966, Pat Riley joined the 1,000-point club.  He did it in 54 games.

 

On March 19, 1989, in the wake of an NCAA investigation, Eddie Sutton resigns as UK basketball coach.

 

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