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Tough-minded Tyler Ulis turning his lack of size into a strength

Tyler Ulis said it’s taken him years of playing at a disadvantaged height to make up for his lack of size.
Tyler Ulis

Tyler Ulis

Unless you’re a UFC fighter, Shaquille O’Neal or just someone asking for a bad day, picking a fight with DeMarcus Cousins seems like a terrible idea for anyone.

At 6-foot-11, 270 pounds, there are few players in the NBA more menacing than the former Kentucky Wildcat. His size, let alone how he uses it, can be downright frightening.

“DeMarcus Cousins is a big kid,” Marcus Lee said it best. “I wouldn’t do nothing stupid like that.”

Nobody told Tyler Ulis that last summer when was playing in a pick-up game during a recruiting visit on campus.

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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 February 26, 1949, Cliff Barker hit a shot against Vanderbilt from 63 feet, 7 inches to record the longest field goal ever made by a Kentucky player.  The previous record of 53 feet , 9 inches was set by Ralph Beard.

 

On February 26, 1991, Kentucky beat the Crimson Tide to win its 200th game in Rupp Arena and became one of two schools (along with North Carolina) to win 1,500 basketball games.

 

Wildcats Born on This Date

February 27, 1927

35 Zeb Blankenship

February 27, 1954

25 David Miller

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