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May 10, 2012 8:50 AM
MURRAY (AP) - On the heels of making the NCAA tournament, Murray State University is set to open a new, $4 million basketball-only facility in January. The new, 20,000-square-foot building will include a basketball court, coaching offices, lobby space and a hall of fame. Athletic Director Allen Ward told The...
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April 3, 2012 11:20 AM
Here are some more tidbits from Monday night's 67-59 NCAA championship game victory over Kansas.
-- UK's record now stands at 111-46 in NCAA Tournament games.
-- Kentucky's 111 tournament wins ranks them first in the nation.
-- The Wildcats have a 19-7 in record in Final...
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March 13, 2012 2:23 PM
The Better Business Bureau of Central & Eastern Kentucky warns basketball fans to beware when looking for ticket and travel deals to cheer on their teams on the road to the NCAA Championship.
Whether you hope to score tickets to see the University of Kentucky Wildcats, the University of...
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March 6, 2012 9:24 AM
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - The Southeastern Conference is the unquestioned king of college football these days. Six straight national championships will do that for you.
On the court, however, the SEC is fighting for respect.
The league hasn't won a men's basketball national championship since Florida's back-to-back titles in...
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March 4, 2012 1:57 PM
UK became the fourth team since 1954 to go undefeated in the SEC with a 74-59 win at Florida Sunday afternoon.
Terrence Jones scored Kentucky's first 8 points on his way to a 19 point game. Jones sank a three pointer during a 9-0 Kentucky run in the final...
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February 24, 2012 10:48 AM
The Tates Creek Middle School girls' basketball team did a little something for the boys.
On Thursday, the team presented a check for $1,000 to the Markey Cancer Foundation. Back on Dec. 5, the Titan squad organized a fundraiser to raise money for prostate cancer research. The team hosted...
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January 16, 2012 1:05 PM
Syracuse is a runaway No. 1 in The Associated Press' college basketball poll for the sixth straight week. The Orange, one of three unbeatens entering play Monday, received 60 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel. Kentucky was second with four first-place votes, followed by undefeated Baylor, which got...
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December 26, 2011 1:53 PM
(AP) - With Syracuse No. 1 for a third straight week, the top seven teams remain the same in The Associated Press' Top 25. The Orange received 54 first-place votes from the 65-member national media poll on Monday. Ohio State, Kentucky, Louisville, North Carolina, Baylor and Duke held their places...
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December 26, 2011 11:43 AM
MURRAY, Ky. (AP) - Murray State players are on a mission: Prove hiring coach Steve Prohm was the right move. So far, so good. No. 22 Murray State is one of six undefeated Division I men's basketball teams - joining Syracuse, Louisville, Baylor, Missouri and Indiana. The Racers, out of...
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December 9, 2011 11:50 AM
Two preseason favorites to compete for a Kentucky state high school basketball championship faced off Thursday night in Georgetown.
Trinity got the better of the early season contest, knocking off Scott County 90-77.
The Cardinals held the advantage in the early going. Scott County enjoyed a double-digit lead...
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November 18, 2011 9:23 AM
The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press' 2011-12 women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses. 1. Baylor (35) 2. Notre Dame (4) 3. Tennessee 4. UConn 5. Stanford 6. Texas A&M (1) 7. Miami 8. Duke 9. Louisville 10. Maryland 11. Penn St. 12. Georgia 13....
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November 16, 2011 11:05 AM
University of Kentucky - Kansas post games note from UK Athletics Dept.
-- Kentucky improves to 2-0 on the season, while Kansas drops to 1-1.
--The Wildcats are 20-6 all-time against Kansas and 6-1 in the series at neutral sites.
-- Kentucky is now 11-3 all-time in...
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July 20, 2011 10:46 AM
BOWLING GREEN (AP) - The Kentucky state high school football and girls' basketball championships are returning to Bowling Green in the coming season. The Kentucky High School Athletic Association is working out final details of sponsorships and plans to announce the site in the next couple of weeks, Commissioner Julian...
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July 14, 2011 6:39 PM
With the summer recruiting season in full swing, John Calipari is not worried that he has yet to land a commitment for the class of 2012.
"We'll be fine," he told Sporting News on Thursday. "We're not getting every kid we want. No one does."
He may not...
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July 8, 2011 1:15 PM
A familiar hand will guide the Garrard County High School boys' basketball team next season.
The school named 2000 graduate Brandon Cooper as the new head coach.
"He's a Garrard County product and we are looking for more stability in our program," assistant principal Kalem Grasham told the...
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May 4, 2011 10:58 AM
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - LSU has a commitment from coveted point guard Anthony Hickey, who was named Kentucky's Mr. Basketball after leading Christian County to a state title. "We are very fortunate to be able to obtain a player of this caliber late in the recruiting period," LSU coach...
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April 7, 2011 8:30 AM
Future Kentucky Wildcat Kyle Wiltjer was named Oregon 6A player of the year.
The 6-foot-10 forward added the honor to an impressive resume that includes three Oregon state 6A basketball championships.
Wiltjer averaged 19.1 points and 7.6 rebounds during his senior season at Jesuit. He shot a blistering...
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April 2, 2011 10:05 PM
Poor shooting has Kentucky trailing Connecticut 31-21 after one half of their Final Four matchup in Houston.
Kentucky shoots 28 percent from the field, 17 percent on three pointers and 20 percent from the free throw line.
Terrence Jones is leading the way for the Wildcats with 9...
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March 30, 2011 8:33 AM
Randall Cobb predicts a UK win over UConn.
Cobb related a detailed prognostication to the Sporting News , saying the Huskies will hit a big shot late, but not late enough.
"We're going to have it with a few seconds left," Cobb says. "Brandon Knight's going to make...
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March 29, 2011 8:40 AM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - For rookie John Wall, March Madness meant helping the Washington Wizards avoid making NBA history as a one-win road team. He ensured that, scoring a game-high 28 points Monday as the Wizards beat the struggling Utah Jazz, 100-95 in overtime for only their second road...
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March 28, 2011 5:22 AM
The University of Kentucky basketball team arrived back in the Bluegrass around 11:30 p.m. Despite the late hour and cold temperatures, True Blue fans showed up in droves at Blue Grass Airport to welcome the Cats home.
A huge crowd gathered outside the airport fences, many carrying signs congratulating...
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March 23, 2011 1:08 PM
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Pikeville College went from unseeded to undisputed NAIA champion. Trevor Setty tied a career high with 32 points and grabbed 17 rebounds as the Kentucky-based school completed an improbable run through the NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament with an 83-76 overtime victory Tuesday night...
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March 3, 2011 9:40 AM
The emotions were sky high. All kinds of thoughts go through your head. For Senior Day, Terrence Jones was thinking about Josh and what he's been through.
"Just thinking about really me last year, that was just me," says a smiling Jones.
"He's done with college playing at...
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February 23, 2011 1:09 PM
Lafayette High School boys' basketball coach Greg Coldiron stepped down due to health concerns Wednesday.
The Lexington Herald Leader reports Coldiron will not be on the sidelines when the Generals take on No. 7 Lexington Catholic Wednesday night. He will also reportedly resign his teaching position.
"My doctor...
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February 16, 2011 2:36 PM
The verdict is in: the overhead camera experiment at Rupp Arena was a dud.
After numerous complaints about the use of the camera by ESPN during UK's 75-69 win over Mississippi State Tuesday night, UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart said Wednesday that the camera, which was mounted on one...
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February 12, 2011 6:56 PM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - John Jenkins' mother texted him before Vanderbilt's game Saturday and told him to score 25 points or more. The sophomore guard followed the order. Jenkins scored a career-high 32 points, hitting six 3-pointers, to lift No. 23 Vanderbilt to an 81-77 victory over No. 18 Kentucky...
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February 12, 2011 6:51 PM
Kentucky Basketball Postgame Notes Kentucky at Vanderbilt February 12, 2011 Memorial Gymnasium - Nashville, Tenn.
-- Kentucky falls to 17-7, 5-5 SEC on the season. Vanderbilt improves to 18-6, 6-4 SEC. -- The Wildcats are 133-44 all-time against the Commodores and 52-27 against Vanderbilt in Nashville. -- UK is...
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February 9, 2011 1:12 PM
(AP) - Kentucky coach John Calipari jotted down a simple message on the whiteboard in locker room before the 18th-ranked Wildcats faced rival Tennessee on Tuesday night.
"I put on the board: Refuse to lose," Calipari said. "It's that time of the year. Refuse to lose. Figure out a...
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February 9, 2011 8:07 AM
A familiar face mingled among Wildcat players in the locker room before and after the Tennessee game Tuesday night.
Washington Wizard's guard John Wall came to town for the game. UK coach John Calipari says the former Wildcat and first round NBA draft pick spoke to the team before...
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February 7, 2011 12:03 PM
Kentucky beat Louisville head-to-head back in December, but the Cards jumped ahead of Kentucky in the latest AP poll.
UK dropped from No. 10 down to the 18th spot after losses to Ole Miss and Florida last week.
U of L climbed one notch to 15th.
Here's...
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January 25, 2011 5:29 PM
A wild 86-foot shot made by a University of the Cumberlands women's basketball player at the first-half buzzer during a weekend game has now made waves nationally after it was named ESPN's Play Of The Week.
It's nearly impossible for Stephanie Quattrociocchi to think about replicating the miracle shot...
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January 24, 2011 12:29 PM
UK dropped two spots to No. 14 in the latest Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball poll, which was released Monday.
The Cats (15-4) went 1-1 in two road games last week, losing to Alabama Tuesday before beating South Carolina Saturday.
Ohio State receiving all but two...
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January 17, 2011 3:48 PM
LOUISVILLE (AP) - The top teams in the Kentucky Associated Press high school basketball polls.
BOYS 1. Lou. Eastern 17-1
2. Lou. Jeffersontown 15-2
3. Lou. Ballard 18-2
4. George Rogers Clark 13-4
5. Scott Co. 13-2
6. Lex. Tates Creek 12-2
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January 17, 2011 1:42 PM
After beating Auburn and routing LSU last week, the UK men's basketball team moved up in both major polls released Monday.
The Cats, who beat Auburn 78-54 Tuesday before crushing LSU 82-44 on Saturday, moved up from 13 to 12 in the AP poll and from 15th to 12...
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January 3, 2011 12:53 PM
Following their 78-63 win over Louisville Friday, the University of Kentucky men's basketball team has re-entered the top 10 of the Associated Press poll, released Monday.
The Cats (11-2) who were ranked at No. 11 in the previous poll, moved up to No. 10. After the loss, Louisville, which...
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December 3, 2010 3:29 PM
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Harrison Barnes was hailed as an immediate savior when he walked onto the North Carolina with the Tar Heels coming off a disappointing season.
Instead, the freshman who was voted an All-American before playing a game has had a frustrating start to his college...
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November 10, 2010 1:56 PM
Tates Creek senior Marcellus Barksdale will head a few hours north to play his college basketball.
The 6-foot-4 guard will commit to Indiana University-Purdue Indianapolis.
Barksdale said his decision ultimately came down to his belief in Jaguar coach Ron Hunter.
"IUPUI is the perfect school for me....
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October 15, 2010 1:47 PM
UK junior forward Darius Miller, now one of the more seasoned veterans on coach John Calipari's team, said during UK's Media Day Thursday that the team's trip to Canada for exhibition games this summer helped bond the returning players with the new freshman class.
"It definitely came in handy,"...
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October 2, 2010 2:59 PM
It may be football season but True Blue fans had basketball on their minds this morning.
UK says all the tickets to the 2010 Big Blue Madness were snapped up in the first 60 minutes of availability Saturday morning.
Thousands of fans were present at UK's Memorial Coliseum...
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September 20, 2010 4:38 PM
The University of Kentucky men’s basketball program has released eight additional televised games for the 2010-11 season, including the annual Blue-White game and both exhibition games. FS South picked up the majority of UK’s non-conference games, including the Pikeville (Nov. 1) and Dillard (Nov. 5) exhibition games, as well as...
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June 4, 2010 10:24 PM
Former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden has died. The Wizard of Westwood was 99. The university said Wooden died Friday night of natural causes at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized since May 26. In the history of college basketball, no coach or school has come...
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April 22, 2010 12:10 PM
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The NCAA is on the verge of expanding the men's basketball tournament from 65 to 68 teams beginning next year and announced a new, $10.8 billion broadcasting deal with CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting on Thursday that will allow every game to be shown live for the...
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April 5, 2010 8:41 PM
Clarence Moore has a passion for excellence. It carried him through a state championship in high school, an NCAA championship game against the University of Connecticut when he was at Georgia Tech University and it has fueled his coaching careers at the high school and university level. Now it has...
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March 22, 2010 12:29 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis must vacate its record 38-win men's basketball season from 2007-08 after the NCAA rejected its appeal. The NCAA announced Monday that its Infractions Appeal Committee ruled against Memphis, which was found to use an ineligible player, believed to be Derrick Rose. The Tigers lost in...
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March 19, 2010 2:23 PM
(AP) - Ballard's Ian Chiles scored 23 points including the game winner at the buzzer to lift the Bruins to a 62-59 win over Warren Central in the quarterfinals of the Kentucky Boys Sweet 16 at Rupp Arena. Ballard (31-4) led by as many as 22 but needed Chiles' heroics...
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March 18, 2010 6:36 AM
University of Kentucky big man DeMarcus Cousins said, "Call me." But he's not going to answer. That's because Wildcat players agreed to give up their cell phones. "Coach talked to me and John about it and pretty much we decided, yeah, we'll do it. It worked out pretty well the...
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March 17, 2010 1:19 PM
Heard of the Sports Illustrated cover jinx? Forget it. For UK basketball fans, they want to avoid the President Barack Obama jinx. And it looks like they have. Obama, who famously (at least here in the Commonwealth) said during a conference call earlier this season with then-undefeated and top-ranked UK...
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March 16, 2010 2:25 PM
ATLANTA (AP) - Kentucky has taken two awards on The Associated Press All-Southeastern Conference women's basketball team as Victoria Dunlap is a unanimous choice for player of the year and Matthew Mitchell is the coach of the year. South Carolina freshman Kelsey Bone picked up the award for newcomer of...
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March 15, 2010 1:59 PM
Kansas is the unanimous No. 1 pick in both the Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN final men's basketball polls of the season. The overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, Kansas received all the first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel in the AP poll. Kentucky, Duke and...
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March 12, 2010 3:49 PM
John Wall had 23 points, including seven straight in the second half to give the Wildcats the lead for good, and No. 2 Kentucky overcame an 11-point deficit Friday in beating Alabama 73-67 in the Southeastern Conference tournament quarterfinals. The win gave Kentucky its 12th 30-win season - the most...
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March 8, 2010 1:01 PM
After a week out of the top spot in The Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN college basketball polls, Kansas has replaced Syracuse at No. 1 with Kentucky moving up to the second spot in both polls. Kansas received 63 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel in the AP...
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February 17, 2010 10:43 PM
Samardo Samuels scored a career-high 36 points, going 16 of 19 from the free throw line, as Louisville outlasted Notre Dame 91-89 in double overtime on Wednesday night. The Cardinals (17-9, 8-5 Big East) were able to stave off a Fighting Irish (17-10, 6-8) squad that began the first overtime...
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February 17, 2010 9:32 PM
The Eastern Kentucky University men’s basketball team shot just 37 percent (21-of-57) from the field and 32 percent (7-of-22) from deep as the Colonels fell to Morehead State, 77-64, Wednesday night in Ellis T. Johnson Arena. With the loss, EKU falls to 18-10 (10-6 OVC) while MSU improves to 19-8...
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February 11, 2010 9:30 PM
D.J. Kennedy scored 15 points, Justin Burrell matched his season high with 14 and St. John's snapped a five-game losing streak with a 74-55 victory over Louisville on Thursday night. The Red Storm (13-10, 3-8 Big East) broke the streak on a night the 1984-85 Final Four team was honored...
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February 11, 2010 9:27 PM
A'dia Mathis and Amani Franklin each scored 15 points, and No. 17 Kentucky pushed its home winning streak to 16 games with a 64-48 victory over No. 19 Georgia on Thursday night. The Wildcats (21-3, 8-2 Southeastern Conference) forced 24 turnovers and harassed Georgia 19-6, 6-6) into 36 percent shooting...
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February 11, 2010 8:55 AM
The New York Daily news reports that University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino made overtures to the New Jersey Nets about their coaching job. The report says Pitino recently had intermediaries contact Nets' president Rod Thorn on his behalf. According to the Daily News, a source close to Thorn...
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February 8, 2010 4:57 PM
Kentucky doesn't need John Wall to win games. The No. 3 Wildcats are just as deadly without their star point guard playing to his potential. In his worst appearance of the season, Wall scored six points in Kentucky's 81-55 romp against LSU on Saturday. Despite a poor night for the...
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February 4, 2010 10:16 PM
Maze Stallworth scored 26 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to help Morehead State defeat Jacksonville State 94-75 on Thursday night. The Eagles (15-7, 9-2 Ohio Valley Conference), averaging six 3-pointers a game, made a season-high 13 of 27 (48.1 percent) against the Gamecocks (10-12, 5-7). Morehead State held a 25-7...
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February 4, 2010 11:10 AM
The University of Kentucky Athletics Department has issued a warning to fans to exercise caution when buying tickets to athletics events from a third-party source outside of the UK Ticket Office or Ticketmaster. At several recent basketball games, a number of fans have been denied entry after unknowingly purchasing altered...
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February 1, 2010 9:31 PM
Edgar Sosa scored 15 points and handed out eight assists to lead Louisville past reeling Connecticut 82-69 on Monday night. Jerry Smith added 14 points while Samardo Samuels chipped in 13 points as the Cardinals (14-8, 5-4 Big East) bounced back from a potentially devastating loss at West Virginia on...
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January 28, 2010 11:25 PM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Kevin Stallings has coached in the Southeastern Conference long enough to know the value of each league win. That might be why he is getting a little greedy. His 21st-ranked Vanderbilt Commodores are enjoying their best start in SEC play since the 1965-66 season after an...
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January 25, 2010 12:28 PM
Kentucky's long wait to get back to the top of the college basketball mountain is over, and they did it in unanimous fashion.
The Wildcats, at 19-0 the only remaining undefeated team remaining in Division I, moved up one spot to become the top-ranked college basketball team in the...
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