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A Behind the Scenes Look at being a Walk-On at Kentucky

I know many of you would love to sit on the bench for every Kentucky Basketball game.

It is a dream of every Kentucky High School Basketball player, especially from the Mountains, to suit up in the blue and white and be a Kentucky Wildcat.

Tod Lanter, who played at Dunbar High School in Lexington, got the chance to be a walk-on for the greatest basketball program and has chronicled his time for The Sporting News.

He has broken it down into a surival guide and is titled: “How to survive as a Division I walk-on”

Here is an excerpt where he talks about his first Big Blue Madness:

The scrimmage was tied with three seconds left, and Lanter was shooting two free throws after getting fouled.