At 6 a.m. Friday, Eddie Sutton got word that Oklahoma State women’s basketball coach Kurt Budke and assistant Miranda Serna had died in an airplane crash, and the familiar grief returned. “It brings back a flood of bad memories,” Sutton said. Memories of that snowy night nearly 11 years ago when a small plane carrying 10 members of the Cowboys’ men’s basketball program, including two players, crashed into a Colorado field. There were no survivors.
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.