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Jay Bilas talks Kentucky's title chances and Mark Pope expectations | Sources Say

Kentucky Sports Radio

KSR

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4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jack Pilgrim and Shawn Smith talk with ESPN's Jay Bilas about last season's Kentucky basketball team and what fans should expect from the 2025-26 edition of Kentucky Wildcat basketball. It's another jampacked episode of the Sources Say Podcast presented by Club Blue and Angels Envy.

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0:00.0

Welcome in to the SourcesA podcast, your go-to Kentucky basketball podcast on the KSR Podcasts

0:12.7

Network, presented by Club Blue. Purchase one of three Club Blue bourbons, a portion of all

0:18.0

sales supporting NIL efforts at for UK student athletes club blue team

0:22.5

white blue and ultra premium bourbons are available for purchase now at liquor barn online

0:28.3

at club blue nil.com and in select bars and restaurants I am your host Jack Pilgrim of

0:34.6

Kentucky Sports Radio very excited to be joined once again for a very, very, very special edition of sources say. Sean Smith, what's going on, buddy? I'm fantastic, Jack Pilgrim. How are you doing? Couldn't be better. Couldn't be better. We kind of, you know, it's that time of the year where we got a, you know, we don't want to just rehash the same things.

0:54.2

We don't want to save the same things over and over again leading up to the season,

0:58.0

kind of that post dog days of summer where you're just coming up with random content.

1:02.7

But actually like needing to get into preseason stuff and get new voices in here.

1:07.8

So we figured why not get the biggest voice possible in the basketball analysis

1:13.9

world? And that's with Jay Billis, ESPN legend of the game and just a friend of the

1:19.3

program. We're very grateful to have him on. He'll be joining us here in just a little bit.

1:23.6

But a bunch of other stuff that we want to touch on and get to kind of getting past the summer break where kids are back on campus.

1:34.0

School has started.

1:35.3

Fall semester has begun.

1:36.8

So we'll talk a little bit about that.

1:38.4

What they've been doing and some of the other national news before we get into our interview with Jay Billis.

1:42.9

Let's start with just what the cats

1:45.2

have been doing because I thought that was pretty cool. They started their kind of team

1:51.9

retreat, if you'll remember last year, becoming Kentucky's team was such an important thing for

1:56.6

Mark Pope when he first got hired and, you know, showing the kids around the community and the

2:02.2

state and, you know, going to, you know, hosting community events and cookouts and, you know,

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