Despite loss, Kentucky ends season on top of AP poll

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Walter Cornett
March 12, 2012

Even after a week in which the top four teams lost, The Associated Press’ final poll looks a lot like it did for the last two months of the season. Kentucky and Syracuse, which both lost in their conference tournaments, were Nos. 1 and 2 in the Top 25 for a seventh straight week Monday. This was the eighth time the Wildcats (32-2) finished on top of the final poll and they went on to win the national championships three times – 1949 (the first season there was a poll)…

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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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