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On this date in Kentucky basketball history…

James Blackmon saw Santa Claus a few hours before most people, and he just happened to be wearing blue.  “A Christmas Eve win on the road under these conditions is just super,” the Wildcat coach said Saturday after freshman guard 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.

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