Great Cameron Mills Story

"If you grow up in Kentucky," Mills says, "Kentucky basketball is it."

It certainly was for Mills, whose father had played for the Wildcats 25 years earlier. Problem: Although he was an all-state guard for Dunbar High in Lexington in 1994, the younger Mills wasn't recruited by then-Kentucky coach Rick Pitino.

On the eve of national signing day, Mills was prepared to sign with Georgia until his father went to the Kentucky basketball offices to explain their situation. Terry Mills eventually found himself in a room with then-UK assistant Billy Donovan, now the coach at Florida.

"Dad said, 'Here's the deal: Georgia's about to sign Cameron, but he really wants to play here. Would you all be interested?'" Cameron Mills says. "Billy just says, 'No, we're set at the two-guard spot.' But somebody, and this is where the story gets fuzzy, but somebody suggested (my) walking on."

"So Dad came right over to the school, to Dunbar. He got there at 11 a.m., got me out of class and brought me to the office. He said, 'OK, they want you to walk on.' All I heard is, 'They want you.' I asked Dad if we could afford it, and he said yes. So I never signed with Georgia."