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New Kentucky head coach, Mark Pope, landed his first marquee recruit on Friday when Malachi Moreno committed to the Wildcats, and it was awesome for so many reasons. Not only is Moreno the nation’s No. 1 overall center, but he is also a Kentucky native. If he were to have lost out on Moreno, especially to a school like Indiana, it would have come as a huge gut punch to Big Blue Nation’s faith in his recruiting prowess. Instead, it now gets a boon. Pope did not come to Kentucky with the nation’s best recruiting résumé. When it comes to Xs and Os, Pope certainly has the modern analytical chops f…

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