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Mark Pope‘s primary focus right now is building out his debut Kentucky roster for the upcoming season, but there are a handful of 2025 high school recruits he’s keeping a close eye on. One of them is 6-foot-8 Canadian wing Will Riley out of Kitchener, ON — the same hometown as former Wildcat guard Jamal Murray. It didn’t take long for Pope to reach out to Riley once he accepted the Kentucky head coaching job. In fact, the process has moved so quickly that Riley was already scheduled to visit Lexington last week — the timing just wasn’t right at the time. However, the two sides are working on s…

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