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Anthony Davis’ rise is unprecedented

Anthony Davis - photo by Regina Rickert | WildcatWorld.comImagine, if you will, Bob “Mr. Baseball” Uecker going from a lifetime .200 hitter to a .350 slugger with 50 homers and 150 RBI in one year. Unlikely? Improbable? Impossible? Not even in the steroids era, right?  Pure fantasy.  Now imagine an 18-year-old kid from Chicago’s South Side going from an obscure 6-foot-1 guard to a 6-foot-10 shot-blocking version of Bill Russell, a freshman star in one of the nation’s premier college basketball programs…

 

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On This Day in UK Basketball History

On April 14, 2024, Mark Pope, a captain of the University of Kentucky’s 1996 National Championship team, is introduced as Kentucky’s new head basketball coach to a crowd of more than 15,000 fans inside of Rupp Arena. Pope replaces John Calipari, who left after 15 seasons at the helm of Kentucky basketball to become the head coach at Arkansas.

 

Wildcats Born on This Date

April 14, 1950

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