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Rupp Arena’s old basketball goals find new life in a land far, far away

When the buyer of the old Rupp Arena basketball goals purchased the well-used equipment last year from the Lexington Center, he said he really had only one worry.

“My concern was that if UK has a really bad season this year, they’re going to want their old units back,” said Dan Shaw, owner of Mountain States School Equipment in Saratoga Springs, Utah.

Getting them back would be a pretty big ordeal now, however, considering two of them are in the Philippines. Rupp’s third goal (one was a backup) is in a warehouse in Troy, N.