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Leigh Turner

Irvine
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Professor, University of California Irvine Department of Health, Society, & Behavior; Director, UCI Center for Health Ethics
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The rumor was a broken locker room, Fayetteville proved it's bulletproof

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By Leigh Turner
| Wildcat Blue Nation
"Shout out to us." Otega Oweh grabbed the microphone after Kentucky's 85-77 win over Arkansas and skipped the media training playbook entirely. He exhaled. He survived. And he had a message for everyone who'd written this team's eulogy 72 hours earlier. "Shout out to us for getting that dub." Lexington had just watched a 25-point demolition by Vanderbilt, and the discourse turned ugly fast. Not the usual "bad defense" or "poor shooting" complaints. This went somewhere darker.
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Kentucky's addiction to comebacks has left it clinging to the NCAA Tournament bubble

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By Leigh Turner
| Wildcat Blue Nation
Furious comebacks are an addiction, but the hangover in Big Blue Nation is officially here. We spent January falling in love with 17-point comebacks, convincing ourselves that this team's "heart" was a substitute for structural consistency. Then Vanderbilt happened, and the reality that this team may simply struggle, hit BBN like a 25-point brick wall. The 80–55 demolition exposed something we've been pretending not to see.
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The Forgotten 1977 Game That Actually Won Kentucky the National Title

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By Leigh Turner
| Wildcat Blue Nation
There are games you win, and then there are games that win you. On New Year's Eve 1977, #1-ranked Kentucky walked into Freedom Hall carrying the weight of perfection—7-0, unblemished, promising. But promise is unproven currency. The #4 Notre Dame Fighting Irish arrived in Louisville fresh off stunning UCLA at Pauley Pavilion. Everyone in college basketball knew what Digger Phelps's teams did to top-ranked opponents in the 1970s: they embarrassed them.
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