In 1997, echoes still lingered in Kentucky from celebrations of the UK Wildcats winning the 1996 NCAA national basketball championship, as Jared Prickett left the team. Years later, he played for teams in Argentina — but was forced to leave by a bad national economy. Seven years later, he also escaped the U.S. real-estate field, just as it also was beginning to crumble. Now, as owner of the Kentucky Basketball Academy in Lexington…
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.