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Like Mark Pope, Goose Givens knows what it takes to win a national championship at Kentucky. The former NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player scored 41 points in one to hang the program’s fifth banner back in 1978. Now he gets to watch the captain of the 1996 title team try to hang another one as the program’s next head coach. And Givens will do it sitting courtside at every game as the official radio color analyst next to Tom Leach. As hectic as the last few months have been, he’s excited for this next era of Kentucky basketball going into 2024-25. The former All-American loves what John Ca…