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Kentucky basketball adds two new walk-ons

Both Anthony Davis and Kyle Wiltjer, within the past 24 hours, have tweeted that the Kentucky basketball team has added two new players: Sam Malone and Brian Long.  You can follow Sam on twitter here and Brian here.  Long is the younger brother of Travis Long, who played a season under John Calipari at Memphis. Long is a point guard who played high school basketball for his father, head coach Brian Long, at River Dell High School in New Jersey.  Malone is a point guard from Scituate, Massachusetts.  John Calipari officially confirmed this via twitter

 
Here is Long knocking down a game-winner:

Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter’s Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.

On This Day in UK Basketball History

On January 23, 1943, Marvin Akers and Melvin Ticco combined for 33 points as the Wildcats beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish for the first time in school history.

 

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