Great defense can make an ugly game beautiful

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Walter Cornett
January 1, 2012

People complained after the 2011 NCAA championship game that Butler and Connecticut had shot miserably, ignoring that each team’s defense had contributed enormously to the difficulty of converting field-goal attempts. Kentucky shot 29.8 percent and Louisville 32.3 percent in Saturday’s game at Rupp Arena, but since we’ve seen teams come in here before and light up the skies—North Carolina earlier this month, in fact—we can’t blame it on the shooting background.

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Walter Cornett

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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