Here's to the big-time basketball teams that geared up for runs to this year's NCAA championship by spitting up bits but not seeds. Congratulations to Final Four favorites Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina, Duke and Syracuse for bowing out with final-weekend defeats for the greater good of bluegrass, rock chalk, Tobacco Road and lake-effect snow. Thank goodness the NCAA selection committee, at least in the cases of Kentucky and Syracuse, had already made up its collective mind.
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.