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And Sean, I just walked in an hour to half ago and I'm running on like three hours of sleep after getting back from

State Farm Arena at three-ish a.m. woke up early and hit the road to get back from Atlanta so we could get on here and do this

on time. It was so worth it. Every second of it is worth it because tonight we are going to

celebrate an absolute all-time performance for the Kentucky Wildcats, giving Mark Pope his

first statement victory as the head coach of the Wildcat,

7772 over the number six Duke Blue Devils.

Sean Smith, what's going on, buddy?

Man, I know you had a lot of fun.

I certainly had a lot of fun last night.

Watched a high-level basketball game jack,

and it's been a while since I woke

up feeling this way. And we talked about which side of the bed will we wake up on this morning.

We woke up on the right side of it. And it's a really good feeling. It was one that we've had

circled on our calendars.

I mean, whether we want to admit it or not, whether, you know, you're the most,

the biggest Mark Pope fan or the biggest naysayer or pessimist, however you want to view it,

everybody had this game circled on the calendar from the day he was hired.

It was all about, we knew that he would, you know,

when we talked about our preseason predictions about we know Mark Pope's going to be capable of

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