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This UK basketball roster took a weird turn. ‘I’m very intrigued,’ says analytics expert.

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A funny thing happened as [COLOR=var(--link-color)]Mark Popehttps://ukathletics.com/sports/mbball/roster/coach/mark-pope/ started building his first Kentucky basketball roster.[/COLOR]
When John Calipari left Lexington for Arkansas last month, he also left the cupboard bare for his successor. That man turned out to be Pope, who came to town with the monumental task of building a team completely from scratch.
The expectation upon his arrival was that Pope — known as a [COLOR=var(--link-color)]practitioner of innovative offense
https://www.kentucky.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/john-clay/article287653905.html in his previous job as BYU’s head coach — would reshape UK’s program in that vision, creating a dynamic scoring attack predicated on an analytical approach to putting the ball in the basket.[/COLOR]

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