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Here in St Louis for Kentucky’s first round matchup with 10 seed Santa Clara Coming up at 12:15 ET on CBS

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Dancing day 🕺

GAMEDAY!!! The Cats take on Santa Clara in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in St Louis!!

Denzel Aberdeen: "We want to win it all, so you're going to see a lot of us coming out stronger, hit it first, being more physical" Otega Oweh: "Could be down 20, we still gonna fight"

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@KYBlueBlood51 Yessir thought it made sense when i tweeted but i guess not. Just wrote on it as well, so more on it will be up soon

@Wildcat_wave Appreciate the added detail!

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Both were asked about what they think the team's identity is. Aberdeen said play hard, Oweh said never quit: "I feel like our identity is, we're just a relentless crew this season. We've had a lot of ups and downs, and we just never quit. We fought through it all. Could be down 20, we still gonna fight"

@KYBlueBlood51 both were asked about what they think the team's identity is. Oweh said never quit: "I feel like our identity is, we're just a relentless crew this season. We've had a lot of ups and downs, and we just never quit. We fought through it all. Could be down 20, we still gonna fight"

@Wildcat_wave Is there any more context to the full interview or leading up questions that help shed more light on the two mentalities here? Or were they actually that different?

Mark Pope: " If I was going to tell you the percent of stuff that was actually reported accurately, it would probably be in the five percentile. It's just an interesting time in the world" "There's craziness swirling around, but that's the circus that comes with Kentucky"

Mark Pope: "We're incredibly efficient and transition, we would love to live there as much as we possibly can"

Mark Pope on dealing with distractions: "There's no team with more experience dealing with distractions the University of Kentucky walking into this tournament"

Denzel Aberdeen: "This is our chance to prove ourselves, to show what we can for the world and BBN especially"

Otega Oweh: "We just got to go out there and execute and focus"

Oweh on facing adversity: "we're a really vocal group and we try and find ways to fix it instead of hanging our heads"

Otega Oweh on the key to good starts in games: "We just gotta have the most energy and stick to our principles'