A team of freshman needs a lot of things over the course of their inaugural season. They need to be tested in many different ways, all hopefully preparing them for the toughness of basketball in March. Saturday, against Auburn, UK got the toughness test.
The Cats may not have passed, but they powered through, fighting to a 72-62 win, a game that saw 50 total fouls called.
“We responded really well,” freshman center Willie Cauley-Stein said of the physical play. “They were playing real cheap, but every game is going to be like that from here on out. Everybody wants to win. For us, we've just got to keep on playing through it.”
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.