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Kentucky looked a little bit different inside Rupp Arena on Wednesday night. A new head coach. A new staff. A new team. Even a new court. But what didn’t change was an exciting brand of basketball. In the first preseason game of the Mark Pope era in Lexington, the No. 23-ranked Wildcats completely shut down Kentucky Wesleyan out of the Divison II ranks, winning in blowout fashion 123-52. It was the exact kind of performance fans wanted to see from this new-look Kentucky program. Pope promised a fun and exciting offense and that’s exactly what we saw: 21 made three-pointers (50 percent), 32 ass…

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