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Former Kentucky walk-on Jim Duff has made a big mark in a different ‘court’

Jim Duff

Jim Duff

Not many people go from walk-on basketball player at Kentucky to playing hoops on “the highest court in the land.”  Jim Duff has.  During the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, Duff was at the elbow of his then-boss, Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist, as the latter presided over the deliberations in the U.S. Senate.  “It was amazing. You knew every moment was historical,” Duff said of the impeachment trial that ended with Clinton not being removed from office. “It was a very somber and serious proceeding. I thought every one involved rose to the magnitude of the event.”

 

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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.

On This Day in UK Basketball History

On April 7, 2014, Kentucky sparks an exciting run to the national championship game with five freshman starters. UK, playing as an eight seed, knocks off four straight top-five seeds all by five points or less to become the first team to win five games in an NCAA Tournament by such a small margin. Freshman sharpshooter Aaron Harrison hits the game-winning 3-pointer in successive victories over Louisville, Michigan and Wisconsin in the final minute of play of each contest. UK eventually loses to UConn in the title game by a 60-54 score.

 

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