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Can Mark Pope reel in his first big fish at Kentucky? He’s hoping to pull it off with Lexington’s own Jasper Johnson, the nation’s No. 10 overall prospect and a consensus five-star right out of the Wildcats’ backyard. Johnson, one of the best scoring guards in high school basketball, is coming off an unofficial visit to Kentucky as he looks to ramp up the recruiting process with a number of additional visits on the docket — he’ll be back at UK with fellow in-state standout on Thursday, followed by officials to Alabama this weekend and Illinois starting Monday. How did things go in Johnson’s fi…

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