Rod Strickland’s been here before. A young, explosive point guard he mentored for a year in John Calipari’s program, drafted by the Bulls after a freshman season that concluded with the final game of the NCAA Tournament. Of course, Marquis Teague’s lone college campaign ended with a championship, he wasn’t the first overall pick in the NBA Draft and he’s not carrying the hopes of an entire city on his back. But Strickland, a former DePaul standout, longtime top-notch NBA floor general and current University of Kentucky assistant coach, believes that although Teague went lower than projected in last week’s draft, it’s a blessing in disguise that he ended up in Chicago, where he can learn from the tutelage of Derrick Rose.
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.