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James BlackmonJoe B. Hall saw Santa Claus a few hours before most people, and he just happened to be wearing Kentucky blue.  “A Christmas Eve win on the road under these conditions is just super,” the Wildcat coach said Saturday after freshman guard James Blackmon banked in a 15-foot jumper with two seconds left to give No. 2 ranked Kentucky a 56-54 non-conference college basketball victory over a determined Illinois squad.

 

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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 November 27, 1976, with Adolph Rupp looking on from the stands, UK defeats Wisconsin, 72-64, in the new, 23,000-seat, $53 million Rupp Arena. Rick Robey scores the first goal in Rupp with 19:30 left to play in the first half.

 

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