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After a whirlwind week, Lee Anne Pope finally found a moment to be still. She was sitting in her husband’s new office at the University of Kentucky, just days after he accepted the job as his alma mater’s 23rd head men’s basketball coach. None of Mark’s staff hires had been approved yet, but the clock was ticking so it was just her and Mark trying to plot the program’s next chapter, just as they had at Utah Valley a decade ago and BYU five years prior. Something about this felt different. When Mark got up to take a call outside, Lee Anne noticed the giant “Kentucky Basketball” mural behind his…

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