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On April 22, Kentucky Men’s Basketball announced that Jason Hart would be joining the coaching staff as assistant coach. Fast forward nearly a month later, and the former Syracuse guard revealed that he wasn’t the biggest Mark Pope fan when he first heard the name. In an interview with Maggie Davis on BBN Tonight, Hart said that the first time he saw Pope was when Kentucky beat Syracuse in the 1996 National Championship — Hart’s senior year of high school prior to joining the Orange. Pope happened to drain the free throws that pushed Kentucky to a seven-point lead with a minute to go in the fi…

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