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Big Blue Nation loves to obsess over standouts and surprises during early summer workouts at Kentucky. It’s a way to pass the time until basketball season — certainly of interest this go-round thanks to the start of a new era under Mark Pope. The first-year coach was quick to dismiss those potential rumblings during his first sit-down with the media in June, making it clear he didn’t want any surprises in practice. He wanted the Wildcats to look exactly the way they did on film out of the transfer portal or coming out of high school — with typical year-to-year development, obviously. You want …

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