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How one ferocious dunk revealed the new soul of Kentucky basketball

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You can almost hear it, the kind of dunk that snaps a gym to silence, then explodes into noise. After ten weeks recovering from injury, Otega Oweh stepped into his first live scrimmage and made sure everyone remembered who he was.

A statement on day one

“His first possession, he gets a steal, races down the floor, takes off from outside the free throw line, and dunks it,” Mark Pope said, shaking his head. “You just love these young people.”

It was a moment that told the story of Oweh’s motor, and maybe of Kentucky’s too.