Every championship team is defined by championship moments. They happen behind closed doors in practices, during regular season games, and, of course, in the championship game. The following is the seventh in a series of articles chronicling the championship moments during the 2011-2012 Kentucky basketball season. Today we finish the series UK’s by looking back at the defining moment of the 2011-12 Wildcats: the meshing of a team.
Being nontraditional is part of our tradition. It always has been and always will be a pillar of Kentucky basketball.
The Wildcats, within the context of the Baylor game, did what championship teams do, which is overcome adversity — a slow start and the Davis injury — on their way to victory.
John Calipari, who led the Dominican Republic National Team to its best finish in international play last summer, has accepted an offer to coach the Dominican Republic at the 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament.
“Where are they now” is a periodical series that will take a look back at the careers of former Kentucky basketball stars and/or John Calipari-coached players and find out what they’re doing post-college. Today we catch up with Walter McCarty, a member of the 1996 national championship squad at Kentucky.