At 7-foot, 244 pounds, UK sophomore forward Willie Cauley-Stein is unlikely to be mistaken for your average college student.
But if you expect Cauley-Stein to act like the stereotypes associated with big-time college athletes, you will probably be disappointed.
That is just fine with him.
“I love being different,” Cauley-Stein said in a one-on-one interview with KyForward in September. “I love doing different things. I love being the talk of the town of being different, of not being that average basketball player that everybody thinks of.
“What I really love is I look like a basketball player except the way I dress. I dress differently than everybody else. Once they talk to me, they're like ‘Yo, you're so different. You're not like what we though you were going to be like.'”
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.