Welcome in to the Sources a podcast, your go-to Kentucky basketball podcast on the KSR podcast network presented by our good friends at Club Blue.

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I am your host, Jack Pilgrim, joined by my friend, Zach Gagan.

A little different setup.

We don't really, didn't know what to expect today.

You know, last year was a very weird time in these parts with the Jackson Robinson withdrawal

news, and we were just kind of waiting and waiting and waiting.

So we kind of in the back of our mind, we're like, yeah, you know, probably going to be another

midnightish show. But thanks to Otega Owey, he's, you know, going for the matinee, going for

the matinee announcement, deciding that he will be returning to the University of Kentucky for his senior

campaign, a decision that I don't think there was a lot of suspense. I don't think there was ever

a lot of worry around Lexington, but that will never, ever, ever minimize Zach the importance

of this decision. How are you feeling right now, Zach, again?

Dude, I had cold chills, like immediately for the first five minutes. Then I kept watching all

of the videos that O.A was posting. He did the old Wolf of Wall Street thing, which is just

becoming, like, if you're going to announce any sort of return in sports now, you have to use

the Wolf of Wall Street clip. And it hits every time. So I was, I've been ecstatic ever since the news broke. This was,

like you said, we kind of knew it was coming. But now that it's actually happened and it's

official, you can kind of take a nice deep breath and you can ignore all the, you know, oh, he had

some good feedback and, you know, it might not be as confirmed or as clear as we thought. You know, all that, it sounds, even Oway in his ESPN quotes with Giovanni was saying that like, yeah, I got some great

feedback, you know, but basically they all said, you should probably go back to college. So now

you've got a potential preseason SEC player of the year, probably a preseason All-American

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