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The only reason Terrence Jones came back to Kentucky was to win a national championship

Terrence Jones - photo by Walter Cornett | WildcatWorld.com

– photo by Walter Cornett | WildcatWorld.com

Linda Mashia-Jones stepped out of the back seat of a car on Mother’s Day, gazed across the street and instinctively raised her hand to cover her mouth as tears started forming in her eyes.  Across the street rested a sparkling, brand new Cadillac SUV, wrapped up in a big red bow. And it was all hers, a surprise gift from her son, Terrence Jones.  “I was talking to her one day, asking her what her dream car would be if she could ever get one, and she named that one,” Jones said. “She didn’t have a car at the time — her car was always breaking down and she was having to get rides from my aunt. So I knew that was one of the first things I wanted to do for her when I turned pro.”

 

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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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On This Day in UK Basketball History

On March 24, 1947, before a Madison Square Garden record crowd of 18,493, Wat Misaka held Ralph Beard to two points and Utah ended the Wildcats’ bid for back-to-back NIT Championships.

 

On March 24, 1951, No. 1 Kentucky defeated No. 5 Illinois in the 1951 NCAA Final Four.  After UK standouts Bill Spivey and Cliff Hagan fouled out, Shelby Linville, a 6-foot-5 junior, scored Kentucky’s final six points, including the game-winning basket on a layup with 12 seconds left before 16,425 in the old Madison Square Garden in New York City.

 

On March 24, 2017, in a highly anticipated matchup with UCLA, which beat the Wildcats in the regular season in Rupp Arena, freshman point guard De’Aaron Fox scores an NCAA Tournament freshman record 39 points to propel UK to the Elite Eight.

 

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