Welcome in to the Sources a podcast, your go-to Kentucky basketball podcast on the KSR podcast network.

I am your host, Jack Pilgrim of Kentucky Sports Radio.

Very excited to be joined once again by the one and only Sean Smith.

Sean, how the heck are you? I'm doing

fantastic Jack Pilgrim. We're moving closer and closer to to this thing actually getting started

here. Is that just hard to believe? Like I was doing the actual math on the days until all of

this stuff begins. And we're 18 days away now from Big Blue Madness.

Like, that's not just around the corner.

That's like here.

So it's awesome.

Practices here.

The first day of practice was officially on Monday.

You know, they had the ramp up post summer where they're still doing the eight hours per week

thing, but Monday mark the official 20 hour allotment where they say, all right, season is here.

It's time to practice like you're in season.

So very cool just to be here and, you know, the intel that we're getting isn't just like,

hey, maybe we have something here in Jalen Lowe. It's, hey, Jaland is solidified himself as the guy. Then what? You know, we're kind of getting into the rotations and who's emerging and this type of, you know, fit and who's playing well together and some of those sorts of things. So, you know, we're in the weeds. We're right there. We got big blue madness. We got the blue white game shortly

after pro day still hasn't been announced yet, but it'll be somewhere between those two

things. We have SEC Media Days and then exhibition season here in October. So, man,

it's going to be a very, very fun time, very fun month-ish until all this stuff

really starts ramping up.

So a lot of really fun stuff to get to.

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