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Pope Like Competitive Cats 4 UK Men’ s Coaches 5 UK Men’ s Player Roster 8-19 Oweh Excited for Senior Season 20‘ Leader’ Lowe Ready to Direct UK Offense 21 UK Men’ s Schedule 23 UK Women’ s Coaches 25 UK Women’ s Play Roster 26, 27 UK Women’ s Schedule 28 Clara Strack selected to preseason All SEC 29 Univ. of the Cumberlands Men’ s Roster 30 Univ. of the Cumberlands Men’ s Schedule 31 Univ. of the Cumberlands Womens’ s Roster 32 Univ. of the Cumberlands Womens’ s Schedule 33 Union College Men’ s Roster 34 Union College Men’ s Schedule 35 Union College Women’ s Roster 36 Union College Women’ s Schedule 37 Kentucky to begin season at No. 9 in AP top 25 38
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