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Sean Woods bleeds blue for life

Sean Woods will be always bleed blue, no matter the color of his shirt, pants or shoes.

Sean Woods - photo by Mark Zerof | US Presswire

Sean Woods – photo by Mark Zerof | US Presswire

Sean Woods will be always bleed blue, no matter the color of his shirt, pants or shoes thanks to his mother’s side of the family who have lived their entire lives in Lexington.

After many years of dribbling a basketball, he has now has become a mentor to the young men in Morehead who wants to be a part of basketball history in the state of Kentucky.

Woods was the guest speaker at Tuesday’s Maysville Rotary meeting. He is preparing for success in his third season as the basketball coach at Morehead State. Before Woods talked about his life as a coach at Morehead, he gave the people, many of whom were Morehead State alums, insight on what it was like to be a Kentucky Wildcat.

To start things off, he thanked his former teammate and roommate Deron Feldhaus for all he has done for him. During his years at Kentucky, Rick Pitino was the head coach and Pitino was the cause of Feldhaus and Woods rooming together 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 April 2, 2011, Kentucky made its 14th Final Four appearance in school history. The Wildcats faced Connecticut in the semifinal matchup, falling 55-56 to the eventual 2011 NCAA Champion.

 

On April 2, 2012, the Wildcats brought home the school’s eighth national championship after posting a 67-59 win over the Kansas Jayhawks in the title game. National Player of the Year Anthony Davis tallied only six points, but he earned Final Four Most Outstanding after pulling down 16 rebounds, blocking six shots and dishing out a game-high five assists. The Wildcats held the Jayhawks to 35.5 percent from the field, while outrebounding KU 43-35.

 

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