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Kentucky Wildcats BREAKING: Kentucky Basketball Locks in Head Coach Mark Pope with Groundbreaking 8-Year, $95 Million Contract Featuring $3 Million Annual Retention Bonus Through 2035… BREAKING: Kentucky Basketball Locks in Head Coach Mark Pope with Groundbreaking 8-Year, $95 Million Contract Featuring $3 Million Annual Retention Bonus Through 2035… Mark Pope just had his first signature coaching moment at Kentucky JavaScript must be enabled to use this feature. Published: Nov 12, 2024, 10:15 p.m. Pope’s Wildcats upset No. 6 Duke in a 77-72 thriller Tuesday night at the State Farm Champions Classic in Atlanta, earning the former BYU head…

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THE GAME: Oregon State will host Oregon Thursday evening at Gill Coliseum in the Rivalry Game brought to you by Safeway-Albertsons, Pacific Source Health Plans, Your Local Toyota Dealers, and First Interstate Bank.. TELEVISION: The game will be televised on ESPN+ QUICKLY: Thursday’s game will mark the 365th all-time meeting between Oregon State and Oregon, the most-contested rivalry in college basketball … The Beavers have defeated the Ducks 192 times, the second-most wins over a single team in NCAA history (Kansas has 204 wins over Kansas State) … The Beavers have opened the season 4-0 for the third-straight season for the first…

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Volunteers head football coach Josh Heupel twice had to ask a reporter in the press room to silence a phone blaring the Georgia Battle Hymn after Tennessee’s Week 12 loss to the Bulldogs in Athens. “If it wasn’t a bad enough night for Josh Heupel and his Tennessee football team, two different times in his postgame news conference a phone went off blaring the Georgia Battle Hymn. It was so loud at one point an agitated Heupel had to ask the reporter to repeat the question,” ESPN’s Chris Low reported on November 16. Heupel was gracious in defeat, all told.…

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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Football’s Nov. 30 game against Jax State will be nationally televised on ESPNU, the network announced Monday. The game will now kick off at 3 p.m. CT at Houchens-Smith Stadium. WKU will travel to Liberty (7-2 overall, 4-2 Conference USA) this coming Saturday, Nov. 23, prior to facing the Gamecocks in the regular-season finale. The Hilltoppers are 7-3 overall and 5-1 in CUSA play this season, while Jax State is 7-3 overall and 6-0 in league play. Sam Houston is also 5-1 in CUSA play, and the Bearkats will play at Jax State this weekend.…

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Good morning, BBN! Saying that Mark Pope’s start with the Kentucky Wildcats has been successful is an understatement. He has brought together every member of BBN behind a team that looks like one of the best in college basketball through the first four games of the year. It was another dominant win last night as the Cats took down Lipscomb, 97-68. Kentucky shot 12/25 from beyond the arc, and Mark Pope said after the game: “We were good in a lot of areas. We only got up 25 3s. That’s not us. That’s not who we’re supposed to be.” That’s…

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The Baltimore Ravens have shown a disappointing lack of discipline this season. The Baltimore Ravens saw far more yellow than they would’ve like to on Sunday, and not just because they played the Pittsburgh Steelers. Throughout the game, the Ravens took a whopping 12 penalties for 80 yards, compared to the Steelers taking seven for 45 yards. These weren’t small penalties either, as many of them negated big plays, put the offense in bad down-and-distance situations or both. In a game decided by two points, those penalties absolutely made a big difference. The worst part is that this isn’t a…

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