Archive for the ‘Walter McCarty’ Category

I could do a column on either of the two games UK had against Arkansas in 1995, but I don’t have the loss in Fayetteville on Super Bowl Sunday where Scotty Thurman pushed off to get open for the game winner. That was a great game despite the outcome, but this one was even better. [...]

After the Tennessee game, out heroes exacted some revenge on Georgia with an 80-59 win in Lexington. This set up a huge rematch with Florida on Senior Night. I may have glossed over this earlier, but Kentucky had lost to Florida in January in what I like to call the ugliest basketball game ever played. [...]

Coming off of the Mardi Gras Miracle, Kentucky seemed to be rejuvenated. They went into inhospitable Memorial Gym and beat a Vanderbilt team that was fighting like mad to get off the bubble. The 77-69 win was not as close as the score indicated, and everybody thought that the Cats could carry the momentum of [...]