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For walk-on Walker Horn basketball just runs in the family

Darrin Horn is the basketball coach at Northern Kentucky University. His son Walker Horn plays basketball for the University of Kentucky.

Perhaps the apple really doesn’t fall far from the tree.  But, for one family, the basketball does.  In fact, for dad and son the distance is exactly 84.7 miles.  That’s the mileage from Highland Heights to Lexington.  

And if you’re wondering – it’s the distance between and son Walker.

Darrin is the basketball coach at University – son Walker plays basketball for – gulp – the University of Kentucky.

“He (Walker) wasn’t going to be a top Division I college basketball player,” coach Horn told the Northern Kentucky Tribune after a practice the other afternoon, “yet he (Walker) chose to be at the highest level of college basketball.”

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On February 11, 1987, Kentucky defeated Tennessee 91-84 in overtime.  Kentucky was down 10 points to Don DeVoe’s Volunteers with 1:13 left in Rupp Arena when the Wildcats unleashed a ferocious rally. Rex Chapman hit a running 12-footer over 6-foot-11 UT center Doug Roth with three seconds left to force overtime —where UK won before 23,002 fans.  One of the all-time miracle comebacks in Kentucky basketball history.

 

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