To hear John Calipari describe this year's team – which he'll tell you over and over again is different than last year's – it will be fast and long. Coach Cal has raved about Willie Cauley-Stein's uncharacteristic speed for a 7-footer. Archie Goodwin is consistently a blazer. Nerlens Noel, for his size, can get up and down the floor with the best of them. Thoroughbreds, to borrow a Kentucky cliché, would be a fitting comparison. So where does that leave Kyle Wiltjer, who isn't exactly the most fleet of foot? Coach Cal said the 6-foot-10, 239-pound big man fits “perfectly” into how the Cats could play this year.
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.