Welcome in to the Sources Say podcast, your go-to Kentucky basketball and recruiting podcast on the growing KSR podcast network presented by our friends at Club Blue.

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I am your host, Jack Pilgrim of Kentucky Sports Radio.

Very excited to be joined once again by Frederick Douglas basketball's own.

Sean Smith.

Sean, what's going on, buddy?

Man, I'm a fantastic, Jack, and I'm sure you had a good time last night covering that game at Rupp Arena,

and there's a lot to talk about. 41's the magic number.

I mean, I think Kobe Brea said it the best.

Like, only God could write that script for Mark Pope's debut, a 103-62 victory over Wright

State where, you know, we have to talk about the competition

level, what it means, what we can learn from something of that magnitude when, you know,

it's a Horizon League team that lost its two leading scores, introducing a brand new head coach

in year one.

There were some different hurdles and adversities that they were going to have to

overcome as is.

But I also don't want fans to look at this game as a complete throwaway in terms of

competition going, oh, well, you know, wait until we play Duke because there was so much

that was revealing on tape

that should have fans feeling really, really confident going into A this season,

but B, going into high-level competition that we will see a week from today, Sean.

A week from today, we will be going into State Farm Arena, preparing for the fighting Cooper flags of Duke for Mark Pope's first true test as the head coach of Kentucky.

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