March 19, 2025 • 22 mins
Welcome to episode ten of Behind Kentucky Basketball presented by UK Federal Credit Union! Ansley Almonor sits down with Michelle Knezovic to discuss his journey to Kentucky, his identity as a player, and how this years team chemistry has blossomed. Tune in as we dive into these topics and more on this episode of Behind Kentucky Basketball.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So coach mentioned he had a he had a pregame speech.
I think Gonzaga maybe, and you guys maybe have been
rotating through different people doing pregame speeches.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Have you had a.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Favorite so far from somebody?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
They're all good in a way, they're.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
But there everybody has a good speech. I guess it's
the point of a game.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Have you given a pre games?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Do you feel pressure, like, Okay, I gotta I gotta
perform in that.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Moment a little bit. I felt a little bit of pressure,
but it was also like, you know, he's my brothers.
It's nothing, you know, it's just another name. It's not
a game. Like you can't really say anything wrong there
and try to break some energy.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Welcome into another episode Behind Kentucky's Basketball, presented about UK
Fugal Credit Union. I'm your host from shel n Zweck
and this week he joined by Ansley Almanor.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Ansley, thank you for coming to the podcast studio today.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Thanks for having me. Appreciation.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Well, Ansley, we're gonna we're gonna go all the way
back to the beginning. We're gonna talk about your basketball journey.
So when when did you start playing basketball and when
did you realize, Okay, I can I can play this
at a high level.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, give me a long gap. You know. I started
playing probably when I was like three four years old,
you know, with the little tyke swoop in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Everybody had a little takes.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, exactly. My older brother played, and then my dad
played back and day, so you know, he always pushed
me to play. It wasn't really to push play basketball.
It was more to like play sports in general and
be active. But I was taller, so basket balls like
towards the gravitated towards.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Did your older brother or dad ever let you win?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
No? I mean yeah no, my dad started playing me
like a while while ago, but my older brother he'll
never let me win until I got to high school
and then I started, you know playing me too.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
So a lot of basketball probably at family holidays and
things like that in back year.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Sure, what was it?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Like? I mean, so you said he played basketball, did
you know, like was there a point maybe whether it
was elementary or middle school, that you knew.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Like basketball was your sport?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You said your family just pushed you to play sports,
but maybe when you knew that basketball.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Is what you love the best uh, probably in middle school,
like going in like middle school, going into high school
was like I don't know, it's like click. I feel
like I was just very driven and obviously I love
the sport of basketball. But I feel like that's probably
when it really started to like click, like really like
dedicate myself to the sport completely.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So I think ESPN had had said it at one
of your games that when you were growing up, you
had a poster of it was a Duke poster and
a Kentucky poster in your room. Tell me, tell me
a little bit about that.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And growing up.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And obviously now you play at Kentucky and we're very
happy that you're not playing at Dukes.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I just want to I want to.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah. So when I was younger, one of my friends,
Brendan has uncle that used to tell us like to
you know, put stuff in the air and manifest certain
things and like think about where you want to be
a picture where you want to be, and that you
should have like a picture of like your goals or
like where you want to go when you go older.
And obviously at a young age, you know like Duke
and Kentucky those are the two biggest schools, like those
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are like, you know, you can't get any bigger when
it comes to college basketball. So I told myself that
I want to ended up, you know, going to one
of those places. So I had a picture of each
of them. So when I woke up every day, I
see it, see it in my face, and I'm here.
So it was great. It's actually still in my room
right now. My brother stays in there, but it's still
in my room.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I feel like you need to keep that forever.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The Kentucky want at least the just we can we
can do without the Dukelin right. Yeah, was it a
specific player or is it just like a UK or
a team phone.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
It was just like it was like a logo of
each like a logo of Dukelin, logo of UK. Let's
have them next to each other.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I love that growing up.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Did you was there like a Kentucky player or it
was really just the basketball program that you loved watching.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You know, It's just Kentucky just had a the history
of just sending guys to the NBA, and that was
obviously where I wanted to end the plane. You know,
that's the ultimate goal. So it was just like, you know,
if you go there you have a really good chance
to go in to the NBA. But growing up, I
was a big big time I say at Brisco fan.
Being from the Tristate area, he was like he was
the biggest thing, like ever felt like when I was
that age. So I just went to Kentucky. I was
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a big fan of followed them, followed him, and yeah,
he was definitely somebody I really looked up too.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Were those were some fun teams to follow? Yeah, that
he was in here definitely. So Ansley as you, you know,
grew up playing basketball, walk us through like what maybe
your high school years look like and then how you
ended up going to FDU.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, So, I mean I went to Catholic school out
on Jersey, Saint Joseph Regional for four years. I didn't play.
I mean I played varsity my sophomore year, but I
didn't really get into the games until like I was
like a junior, and I didn't really start until I
was like a senior, So I was kind of like
a late bloomer. I started some games my junior year,
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but I didn't really start till I was a senior.
So I was like a late bloomer. And then my
senior year of COVID hit, so it was like hard
for a lot of kids the recruit especially kids who
weren't getting recruited in their first place. So I decided
to take a prep school year, a prep year, and
I went to this school out and I'm in the
Bronx called our Sa Lutheran, and you know, it was
like it's like a basketball factory. They have a lot
of D one players right now. I'm playing right now,
have a couple of guys in the league. So it
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was just a place where I felt like I could
take my game to the next level. And I went there.
It's still tough getter to get recruited because it was
like in the thick of COVID, like people quarantine, you
got to get.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Test, especially in New York, like everything tested.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Every week, and it was just it was a whole bunch.
But you know, like I loved the game so much,
I just I was okay with I just wanted to
give my all, you know, because I felt like I
could play at a D one level. And then you know,
I was grinding and grinding that whole year and then
in like may I do you? They offered me, which
is like not too far from my house, so it
was like really cool that I got to stay home
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and you know play the visual level.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So yeah, so explain to people who maybe aren't as
familiar with how you how you take a prep a
prep year, like after after you go to high school,
you can go to prep school, get some more basketball
exposure and kind of kind of it's almost like a
program where colleges come to, right the scouts they scout
those programs, especially in the Y.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, so it's like you know, after you're you graduate
from high school, you have a you go to take
a prep year like I did. It's where it's like
you go to take college classes and you just focus
on a you know, getting better at whatever sport is.
It's not only basketball, it's other prep schools for like
different sports to like football, like a whole bunch of
different sports. So I would tell one that was you know,
really really big and basketball.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So so your transition, what was the transition like then?
So you you go to prep school, like you said,
you're taking college classes, you're you know, like the practice schedule,
you're really trying to get recruited, and then you end
up staying locally going.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
To FDU what was that transition like for you?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Did you feel like it was easy because you were
playing at a high level at prep school and then
and coming over after you Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, the transition wasn't too bad, to be honest, compared
to some some other transitions you could like, you know,
especially going into the FDU wasn't like the highest level
of D one, So I felt like I was playing
at a similar level when I the prep school, like
you said, so it wasn't like too big of a
gap or too big of a difference. And being home,
it wasn't like, you know, to culture shocks. I could
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go home like anytime I wanted twenty five minutes away.
So it wasn't that bad to be honest.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
When you look at yourself freshman, ye're there and then
last year there, how much and maybe in what specific
areas did you see yourself improved as a basketball player.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I felt I improved across the boards, like any any way,
any anything I could have improved that I improved, and not
something I tried to, you know, try to do something.
I focused on trying to get better at everything every
single year, my body, the game, just any any skill,
even just my mental So yeah, I feel like, you know,
great three years there and I tried to use the
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most of it.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Sure, so this off season happens and of the transfer portal.
How did the match of you Coach Pope and you
sitting in this chair now come to be tell us
that story.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Uh So I got contacted by Jay Hart first, and yeah,
he spoke on the phone, you know, had a great
phone call. Then I think it might have been coach
Fox call me. Next, I also had a great phone call.
And then I got a FaceTime Coach.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Pope, have you already got a FaceTime?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I love that. I love like I face time. It
was like it was like so random. It was at
my house, and you know, he came up vibrant, you
know what, the energy he always has, and he had
the like the Kentucky lovego in his background because like
in his office. So it was it was it was
like a surreal feeling to be like Coach Pope, you know,
and you know we had a great conversation, tell me
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how I felt I could fit in this system and
stuff like that. So I felt like it was a
great opportunity for me. Can't want to visit here, you know,
love the campus, everything that everything they got to offer,
and then the fans are showing me love before I
even like came on a visit. Once they heard I
was like, you know, get in contacted by coach Pope.
They even they started contacting me instead telling me to
(09:12):
come here, come here and love me and home and stuff.
So it was it was a crazy experience. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I was talking to Jackson about the fan base and
how when anything would get out of Coach Pope, is
you know so and so is coming on a visit here,
or each player he was he was putting together the roster.
I mean, fans just would would go crazy about every
single player. I know you you kind of touched on it,
but but what was that like for you when you're
(09:39):
just seeing on Twitter or fans messaging you, like you said,
before you're even officially at Kentucky Wildcat.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, fans were messuring me, messaging mely like crazy once
they once I announced I was taking a visit there.
When they announced it, it was just you know, it's
up from there and people are contacting me and asked
me for interviews. That's me for like everything, you know,
text me on me and on Twitter, every app. It
was crazy it was like whoa. And it was like
before I even committed or even got down to campus,
and it was just and it's just been going on
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from there.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I'm sure that was really a glimpse. And then you know,
you have big Blue madness and then you have these
SEC matchups on a Saturday where Rapparena.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Is is filled to the brim.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
How how is that then for you to see the
way this city, this state shows up for home basketball games.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
No, it's crazy. You know, I'm super super grateful for me.
You don't be able to where does Kentucky across my
chest and represent everybody that comes and supports us, even
people that aren't able to come, just people supporters in general.
It's just a surreal feeling to go out there and
play in reperena and legendary arena packed, like you said,
pack to the brims, no empty seats. You know, it's
crazy feeling that the energy advice is just one on
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one for sure.
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three pointer in Reperina and the crowd does what the
crowd does?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Do you guys? Do you block it out? Can you
hear it in the moment?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I always I always want to ask that to different
players because I think some people are like, yeah, you know,
I know everybody's going crazy. Some people are like, no,
I'm locked in. I have no idea, Like I'm just
focused on the game. What is what is your point
of view?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
And you could, I definitely know, like the crowd's going crazy.
You could hear it, like you feel what the energy.
Try to feed off that energy into like the next
positions and next defense positions, trying to get a stop
feed off the energy head the crowd, get into it.
You know it all helps. Yeah, making a three like
crazy feeling.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
To have so many guys on your team you I
mean Kobe Jackson Andrew you.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Know, Travis Perry.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I mean, I'll just go down the list, lamon right
and forget O take I'm missing I'm missing somebody. To
have so many different guys who can score like that
and at such a high level, and each night I
feel like it's a different guy. How fun is that
as a player to know that you guys have so
many different ways to win or different guys who can
just be lethal.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
It's great, you know, it allows you to just focus
on like your your job, like it allows you to
focus on your role and do what you what you
know you could bring to the team and we'll coach
Hope want you to do to help the team. So
it makes it real easy for you. For sure. You
get to go out there, focus on what your job is,
what your task is, and focus on what you could
help help the team do it that day to win
because you know that even if maybe you're not making
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shots that day, or if you're not, you know, the
best on the offensive side that you got, like you
just said, eight other guys who could you know take
that role for you and have your back. So it's
just a great feeling.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
You hit some big threes at Mississippi State.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
So let's let's flip it.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It's really cool to obviously play and wrap arena and
have a huge fan base behind you, but to do
it in somebody else's gym and they're packing the arena
because Kentucky's in town and they're you know, booing they
don't want you to hit those threes?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
What is that perspective?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Like, it's almost almost better to be honest, Like, you know,
they're loud, they're trying to, you know, scream and try
to distract you stuff, and just hinting that shot, it
goes silent. It's like you can hear a pin drop
in that building. It was crazy, such a great feeling,
you know, just to see all those those looks on
the people's face that they're sort disappointing and stuff. It's
a great feeling.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, I have to ask whose idea was it to
get you with the newspaper after the Mississippi State game
you're sitting in the chair.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Whose idea was that?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Because that photo went I mean, big Blue Nation loved it.
It went kind of viral on social media after that.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It was actually my idea, I don't know it was.
It was definitely my idea. I just had one of
the managers take a picture of me.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Is that going to be framed? I feel like that
should be framed.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Be framed for sure, for sure, for sure. And I
got the newspaperite too, So I'm gonna try to frame
both of them together.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Oh there you go, I think.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I think Andrew Carr also had a photo. A lot
of people had some did he did. Yeah, that's gotta
be a fun feeling traveling traveling back after that a
hostile environment.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
It's a great love getting those road winds and they
just they mean a.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Lot being in the SEC And I know we're only
really halfway halfway through end of January here, but traveling
to the different arenas, I know, you don't really get
to see the cities, but to see the other arenas,
arenas and the way that they pack it when you
all come to town.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Uh, what is what has that been?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Like? It's been great. You know, you're you're you're like,
like I said, you're the super Bowl. Every game, every
game is the super Bowl. You know, when Kentucky comes
to town, they're gonna try to sell it out. They're
gonna try to, you know, promote it that promote as
much as they can, and it's just great to go
in there and you don't even have the energy, just
even even when you're not home, just having an energy
in a building, it's just a great feeling.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
How infectious is that?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I think Coach Pope in an interview he said something
like energy is so important to your team, and you know,
you like getting points in transition, like having that energy,
whether it be the crowd behind you, whether it be
energy within your huddle and things like that.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You know, how do you guys feed off of that?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Is that just it's just a feeling and you kind
of can just play free.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
No, it is, but he said, it's just it's what
you need to be honest, to be a great team,
you need that energy. Like it Sometimes it's hard when
you go into the like gyms, when you have not
a lot of fans and there's nobody in there room
for you. It's hard to build that energy. But that's
something we try to have on the bench and within
our huddle, just to always have energy. Bring energy, because
that really affects how like you play out there in
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the game. It really does.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Is there a guy on the team who who you
feel like is he always brings it?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I mean, I know you all do it correctly.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Definitely brings it always. I respect him. I try to
be like him sometimes. You know, he's he he always
has energy even when he's not playing.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Do you feel like I was?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, you said, even when he's not playing, But he's
been able to keep up the consistency.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I mean you could tell. I think as a fan
or watching him.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah you can say, yeah, yeah, he definitely does so.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Coach mentioned he had a he had a pregame speech.
I think Gonzaga maybe and you guys maybe have been
rotating through different people pregame speeches. Have you had a
favorite so far from somebody?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
They're all good in a way.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
They're all good in a way. I'm not gonna, you know,
try to pick nobody's over, but everybody has a good speech,
you know, I guess it's more favorite game for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Have you given a pregame spee? Is it?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Do you feel pressure, like, Okay, I gotta I gotta
perform in.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That little bit A little bit I felt a little
bit of pressure, but it was also like, you know,
he's my brothers. It's nothing, you know, it's just another day.
It's not the game, like, you can't really say anything wrong.
To be honest, you just gotta go out there and
try to bring some energy.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
So Mark Pope has had energy, whether it be you know,
with the fan base. I think from when he first
started here and he had a press conference that you know,
there were thousands of people here watching him from the outside,
because then he's infectious. What is he like day to
day in practice? And maybe how is that different from
from a coach that you've had.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
No, Yeah, he's one of one for sure. His energy
is you know, he never never lacks energy. You know,
he's consistent who he is always. He doesn't try to
change up or be anybody else. He knows who he
is and he tries to be the best him every
day for us. And something you just appreciate as a
player when you have a coach that just does that
for you, you know, it really means that he cares
about you, not just as a basketball player, as a person. So, yeah,
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he brings the energy always and he's just a great coach.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Do you feel like that's translated from when you had
maybe that first FaceTime call with him and what he said,
you know, all the opportunity you can have here. Whatever
his pitch was for you to come here to Kentucky,
that that has pretty much been spot on.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, spot on for sure. Any dreams. He a loted
of me, and he just cut the straight up and
I appreciate that and I always commit him for that always.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I think he said, you're a finance major. Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah? I'm not anymore though anymore?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, what uh?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
What if if it wasn't basketball, what would be a
dream A dream job? I mean, I know you said
you were financed, so like numbers.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I mean, I mean, yeah, like dream job. It would
be like the world job, the job in the world
for a living or something.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Okay, number one place you would go on the bucket
list if you could go anywhere in the world right now.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Such a great question. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I think when I asked Jackson, I think he said Switzerland.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
It's a good one. I'll probably give me maybe Spain, Okay, France,
maybe Spain for Japan.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Japan's really that Japan would be really cool. It'd be
quite the flight, that would be like seventeen hours. You'd
be walking, stretching the legs.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
For sure, I need that. But I think Japan would
be really cool.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
So we're gonna go a little off topic right now,
but this is a couple of weeks ago when you
guys got the Drake gear and you got the Devin
Booker shoes and how cool is that? And you just
see we talked about the Kentucky brand playing for Kentucky,
but people like the unveil of the new shoe or
the new gear.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
How fun is that?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I mean I think I was watching and I was like, Okay,
that's that's really cool.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
That's really cool. It's so fun. You know, people get
to they're showing their support for us. You know, like
you said that the brand of Kentucky is the Bigges
brand college basketball. So it's like you always get on
people showing love and it's just one of one. You know,
you can't replace that. You can't go anywhere else and
get this hype of you know, opportunity and get this
hype of support. So it just means a lot. For sure.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
If Big Blue Nation wanted to know something about you
that they don't already know, what would that be like?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
What would you.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Tell them something about you that you would want them
to know, whether it be about your family growing up
living in Lexington.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I'm a big soccer fan.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Okay, we're going to expand on that.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
People don't really know that I'm a really big soccer fan.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Did you play growing up? Do you like the Premier League?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
What not? Really? I played a little bit like some
rec leagues, but.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I was in like that good basketball is better basket?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
What was better? Uh? Yeah? I like the prem A real.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Madrid, Real Madrid. Okay, so Madrid might be on the list.
A game. There you go, bucket bucket list.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Plays perfect, great game. Game.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
What about what are you excited for just the rest
of the season. I mean, no, getting number nine is
you guys talk about it, you preach it. That's that's
been a sentiment over the entire team. But just this
year in Lexington, you're all experiencing it together. It's Mark
Pope's first year. It's this whole team's first year. I
think I said to somebody else like it's almost like
misfit toys, but it all works right, Like you were
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puzzle pieces from all over the country that got put
together and it's been working really really well for you all.
Whether it be like just more games playing together with
this team, more Reprena Experiences number one nine.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Obviously, just being able to just you know, continue to
be able to just represent everybody, representing everybody that came
before for us, everybody that supports us, you know, just
being able to go out there on the court every day.
It just it's a man I look forward to every
single time. You know, I'm never gonna take that for granted.
You know, I'm great, grateful, completely grateful for being putting
this opportunity in this position. So yeah, I'm not looking
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forward to being able to go out there and play
more games.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
More games.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I mean you talk about manifesting, Yeah, right, the picture
of the UK, it really is quite the quite the
example of you know, if you speak it into existence,
it can happen.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah. Yeah, you know a lot of a lot of
hard work, a lot of prayer, you know, and anything happened.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So you need to frame the UK, you need to
frame the the newspaper from Mississippi State, and then you
need to frame the picture of the newspaper for MISSIPI.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Not good, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Well, Annsleys, thank you so much for coming on the
podcast today.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Thanks for having me appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
We appreciate it. We can't wait to watch you guys
the rest of this season. This is Behind Kentucky Basketball Podcast,
presented by UK Federal Credit Union.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
We'll see next week.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Enough then, and I know they mm hmm
So coach mentioned he had a he had a pregame speech.
I think Gonzaga maybe, and you guys maybe have been
rotating through different people doing pregame speeches.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Have you had a.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Favorite so far from somebody?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
They're all good in a way, they're.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
But there everybody has a good speech. I guess it's
the point of a game.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Have you given a pre games?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Do you feel pressure, like, Okay, I gotta I gotta
perform in that.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Moment a little bit. I felt a little bit of pressure,
but it was also like, you know, he's my brothers.
It's nothing, you know, it's just another name. It's not
a game. Like you can't really say anything wrong there
and try to break some energy.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Welcome into another episode Behind Kentucky's Basketball, presented about UK
Fugal Credit Union. I'm your host from shel n Zweck
and this week he joined by Ansley Almanor.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Ansley, thank you for coming to the podcast studio today.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Thanks for having me. Appreciation.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Well, Ansley, we're gonna we're gonna go all the way
back to the beginning. We're gonna talk about your basketball journey.
So when when did you start playing basketball and when
did you realize, Okay, I can I can play this
at a high level.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, give me a long gap. You know. I started
playing probably when I was like three four years old,
you know, with the little tyke swoop in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Everybody had a little takes.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, exactly. My older brother played, and then my dad
played back and day, so you know, he always pushed
me to play. It wasn't really to push play basketball.
It was more to like play sports in general and
be active. But I was taller, so basket balls like
towards the gravitated towards.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Did your older brother or dad ever let you win?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
No? I mean yeah no, my dad started playing me
like a while while ago, but my older brother he'll
never let me win until I got to high school
and then I started, you know playing me too.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
So a lot of basketball probably at family holidays and
things like that in back year.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Sure, what was it?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Like? I mean, so you said he played basketball, did
you know, like was there a point maybe whether it
was elementary or middle school, that you knew.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Like basketball was your sport?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
You said your family just pushed you to play sports,
but maybe when you knew that basketball.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Is what you love the best uh, probably in middle school,
like going in like middle school, going into high school
was like I don't know, it's like click. I feel
like I was just very driven and obviously I love
the sport of basketball. But I feel like that's probably
when it really started to like click, like really like
dedicate myself to the sport completely.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
So I think ESPN had had said it at one
of your games that when you were growing up, you
had a poster of it was a Duke poster and
a Kentucky poster in your room. Tell me, tell me
a little bit about that.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
And growing up.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
And obviously now you play at Kentucky and we're very
happy that you're not playing at Dukes.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I just want to I want to.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah. So when I was younger, one of my friends,
Brendan has uncle that used to tell us like to
you know, put stuff in the air and manifest certain
things and like think about where you want to be
a picture where you want to be, and that you
should have like a picture of like your goals or
like where you want to go when you go older.
And obviously at a young age, you know like Duke
and Kentucky those are the two biggest schools, like those
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are like, you know, you can't get any bigger when
it comes to college basketball. So I told myself that
I want to ended up, you know, going to one
of those places. So I had a picture of each
of them. So when I woke up every day, I
see it, see it in my face, and I'm here.
So it was great. It's actually still in my room
right now. My brother stays in there, but it's still
in my room.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I feel like you need to keep that forever.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
The Kentucky want at least the just we can we
can do without the Dukelin right. Yeah, was it a
specific player or is it just like a UK or
a team phone.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
It was just like it was like a logo of
each like a logo of Dukelin, logo of UK. Let's
have them next to each other.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I love that growing up.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Did you was there like a Kentucky player or it
was really just the basketball program that you loved watching.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You know, It's just Kentucky just had a the history
of just sending guys to the NBA, and that was
obviously where I wanted to end the plane. You know,
that's the ultimate goal. So it was just like, you know,
if you go there you have a really good chance
to go in to the NBA. But growing up, I
was a big big time I say at Brisco fan.
Being from the Tristate area, he was like he was
the biggest thing, like ever felt like when I was
that age. So I just went to Kentucky. I was
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a big fan of followed them, followed him, and yeah,
he was definitely somebody I really looked up too.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Were those were some fun teams to follow? Yeah, that
he was in here definitely. So Ansley as you, you know,
grew up playing basketball, walk us through like what maybe
your high school years look like and then how you
ended up going to FDU.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, So, I mean I went to Catholic school out
on Jersey, Saint Joseph Regional for four years. I didn't play.
I mean I played varsity my sophomore year, but I
didn't really get into the games until like I was
like a junior, and I didn't really start until I
was like a senior, So I was kind of like
a late bloomer. I started some games my junior year,
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but I didn't really start till I was a senior.
So I was like a late bloomer. And then my
senior year of COVID hit, so it was like hard
for a lot of kids the recruit especially kids who
weren't getting recruited in their first place. So I decided
to take a prep school year, a prep year, and
I went to this school out and I'm in the
Bronx called our Sa Lutheran, and you know, it was
like it's like a basketball factory. They have a lot
of D one players right now. I'm playing right now,
have a couple of guys in the league. So it
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was just a place where I felt like I could
take my game to the next level. And I went there.
It's still tough getter to get recruited because it was
like in the thick of COVID, like people quarantine, you
got to get.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Test, especially in New York, like everything tested.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Every week, and it was just it was a whole bunch.
But you know, like I loved the game so much,
I just I was okay with I just wanted to
give my all, you know, because I felt like I
could play at a D one level. And then you know,
I was grinding and grinding that whole year and then
in like may I do you? They offered me, which
is like not too far from my house, so it
was like really cool that I got to stay home
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and you know play the visual level.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So yeah, so explain to people who maybe aren't as
familiar with how you how you take a prep a
prep year, like after after you go to high school,
you can go to prep school, get some more basketball
exposure and kind of kind of it's almost like a
program where colleges come to, right the scouts they scout
those programs, especially in the Y.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, so it's like you know, after you're you graduate
from high school, you have a you go to take
a prep year like I did. It's where it's like
you go to take college classes and you just focus
on a you know, getting better at whatever sport is.
It's not only basketball, it's other prep schools for like
different sports to like football, like a whole bunch of
different sports. So I would tell one that was you know,
really really big and basketball.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So so your transition, what was the transition like then?
So you you go to prep school, like you said,
you're taking college classes, you're you know, like the practice schedule,
you're really trying to get recruited, and then you end
up staying locally going.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
To FDU what was that transition like for you?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Did you feel like it was easy because you were
playing at a high level at prep school and then
and coming over after you Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Yeah, the transition wasn't too bad, to be honest, compared
to some some other transitions you could like, you know,
especially going into the FDU wasn't like the highest level
of D one, So I felt like I was playing
at a similar level when I the prep school, like
you said, so it wasn't like too big of a
gap or too big of a difference. And being home,
it wasn't like, you know, to culture shocks. I could
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go home like anytime I wanted twenty five minutes away.
So it wasn't that bad to be honest.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
When you look at yourself freshman, ye're there and then
last year there, how much and maybe in what specific
areas did you see yourself improved as a basketball player.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I felt I improved across the boards, like any any way,
any anything I could have improved that I improved, and not
something I tried to, you know, try to do something.
I focused on trying to get better at everything every
single year, my body, the game, just any any skill,
even just my mental So yeah, I feel like, you know,
great three years there and I tried to use the
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most of it.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Sure, so this off season happens and of the transfer portal.
How did the match of you Coach Pope and you
sitting in this chair now come to be tell us
that story.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Uh So I got contacted by Jay Hart first, and yeah,
he spoke on the phone, you know, had a great
phone call. Then I think it might have been coach
Fox call me. Next, I also had a great phone call.
And then I got a FaceTime Coach.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Pope, have you already got a FaceTime?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I love that. I love like I face time. It
was like it was like so random. It was at
my house, and you know, he came up vibrant, you
know what, the energy he always has, and he had
the like the Kentucky lovego in his background because like
in his office. So it was it was it was
like a surreal feeling to be like Coach Pope, you know,
and you know we had a great conversation, tell me
(08:52):
how I felt I could fit in this system and
stuff like that. So I felt like it was a
great opportunity for me. Can't want to visit here, you know,
love the campus, everything that everything they got to offer,
and then the fans are showing me love before I
even like came on a visit. Once they heard I
was like, you know, get in contacted by coach Pope.
They even they started contacting me instead telling me to
(09:12):
come here, come here and love me and home and stuff.
So it was it was a crazy experience. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I was talking to Jackson about the fan base and
how when anything would get out of Coach Pope, is
you know so and so is coming on a visit here,
or each player he was he was putting together the roster.
I mean, fans just would would go crazy about every
single player. I know you you kind of touched on it,
but but what was that like for you when you're
(09:39):
just seeing on Twitter or fans messaging you, like you said,
before you're even officially at Kentucky Wildcat.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, fans were messuring me, messaging mely like crazy once
they once I announced I was taking a visit there.
When they announced it, it was just you know, it's
up from there and people are contacting me and asked
me for interviews. That's me for like everything, you know,
text me on me and on Twitter, every app. It
was crazy it was like whoa. And it was like
before I even committed or even got down to campus,
and it was just and it's just been going on
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from there.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
I'm sure that was really a glimpse. And then you know,
you have big Blue madness and then you have these
SEC matchups on a Saturday where Rapparena.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Is is filled to the brim.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
How how is that then for you to see the
way this city, this state shows up for home basketball games.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
No, it's crazy. You know, I'm super super grateful for me.
You don't be able to where does Kentucky across my
chest and represent everybody that comes and supports us, even
people that aren't able to come, just people supporters in general.
It's just a surreal feeling to go out there and
play in reperena and legendary arena packed, like you said,
pack to the brims, no empty seats. You know, it's
crazy feeling that the energy advice is just one on
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one for sure.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
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three pointer in Reperina and the crowd does what the
crowd does?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Do you guys? Do you block it out? Can you
hear it in the moment?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I always I always want to ask that to different
players because I think some people are like, yeah, you know,
I know everybody's going crazy. Some people are like, no,
I'm locked in. I have no idea, Like I'm just
focused on the game. What is what is your point
of view?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
And you could, I definitely know, like the crowd's going crazy.
You could hear it, like you feel what the energy.
Try to feed off that energy into like the next
positions and next defense positions, trying to get a stop
feed off the energy head the crowd, get into it.
You know it all helps. Yeah, making a three like
crazy feeling.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
To have so many guys on your team you I
mean Kobe Jackson Andrew you.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Know, Travis Perry.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
I mean, I'll just go down the list, lamon right
and forget O take I'm missing I'm missing somebody. To
have so many different guys who can score like that
and at such a high level, and each night I
feel like it's a different guy. How fun is that
as a player to know that you guys have so
many different ways to win or different guys who can
just be lethal.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
It's great, you know, it allows you to just focus
on like your your job, like it allows you to
focus on your role and do what you what you
know you could bring to the team and we'll coach
Hope want you to do to help the team. So
it makes it real easy for you. For sure. You
get to go out there, focus on what your job is,
what your task is, and focus on what you could
help help the team do it that day to win
because you know that even if maybe you're not making
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shots that day, or if you're not, you know, the
best on the offensive side that you got, like you
just said, eight other guys who could you know take
that role for you and have your back. So it's
just a great feeling.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
You hit some big threes at Mississippi State.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
So let's let's flip it.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It's really cool to obviously play and wrap arena and
have a huge fan base behind you, but to do
it in somebody else's gym and they're packing the arena
because Kentucky's in town and they're you know, booing they
don't want you to hit those threes?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
What is that perspective?
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Like, it's almost almost better to be honest, Like, you know,
they're loud, they're trying to, you know, scream and try
to distract you stuff, and just hinting that shot, it
goes silent. It's like you can hear a pin drop
in that building. It was crazy, such a great feeling,
you know, just to see all those those looks on
the people's face that they're sort disappointing and stuff. It's
a great feeling.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Okay, I have to ask whose idea was it to
get you with the newspaper after the Mississippi State game
you're sitting in the chair.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Whose idea was that?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Because that photo went I mean, big Blue Nation loved it.
It went kind of viral on social media after that.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
It was actually my idea, I don't know it was.
It was definitely my idea. I just had one of
the managers take a picture of me.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Is that going to be framed? I feel like that
should be framed.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Be framed for sure, for sure, for sure. And I
got the newspaperite too, So I'm gonna try to frame
both of them together.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Oh there you go, I think.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
I think Andrew Carr also had a photo. A lot
of people had some did he did. Yeah, that's gotta
be a fun feeling traveling traveling back after that a
hostile environment.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
It's a great love getting those road winds and they
just they mean a.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Lot being in the SEC And I know we're only
really halfway halfway through end of January here, but traveling
to the different arenas, I know, you don't really get
to see the cities, but to see the other arenas,
arenas and the way that they pack it when you
all come to town.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Uh, what is what has that been?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Like? It's been great. You know, you're you're you're like,
like I said, you're the super Bowl. Every game, every
game is the super Bowl. You know, when Kentucky comes
to town, they're gonna try to sell it out. They're
gonna try to, you know, promote it that promote as
much as they can, and it's just great to go
in there and you don't even have the energy, just
even even when you're not home, just having an energy
in a building, it's just a great feeling.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
How infectious is that?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I think Coach Pope in an interview he said something
like energy is so important to your team, and you know,
you like getting points in transition, like having that energy,
whether it be the crowd behind you, whether it be
energy within your huddle and things like that.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
You know, how do you guys feed off of that?
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Is that just it's just a feeling and you kind
of can just play free.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
No, it is, but he said, it's just it's what
you need to be honest, to be a great team,
you need that energy. Like it Sometimes it's hard when
you go into the like gyms, when you have not
a lot of fans and there's nobody in there room
for you. It's hard to build that energy. But that's
something we try to have on the bench and within
our huddle, just to always have energy. Bring energy, because
that really affects how like you play out there in
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the game. It really does.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Is there a guy on the team who who you
feel like is he always brings it?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I mean, I know you all do it correctly.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Definitely brings it always. I respect him. I try to
be like him sometimes. You know, he's he he always
has energy even when he's not playing.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Do you feel like I was?
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, you said, even when he's not playing, But he's
been able to keep up the consistency.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
I mean you could tell. I think as a fan
or watching him.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah you can say, yeah, yeah, he definitely does so.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Coach mentioned he had a he had a pregame speech.
I think Gonzaga maybe and you guys maybe have been
rotating through different people pregame speeches. Have you had a
favorite so far from somebody?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
They're all good in a way.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
They're all good in a way. I'm not gonna, you know,
try to pick nobody's over, but everybody has a good speech,
you know, I guess it's more favorite game for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Have you given a pregame spee? Is it?
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Do you feel pressure, like, Okay, I gotta I gotta
perform in.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That little bit A little bit I felt a little
bit of pressure, but it was also like, you know,
he's my brothers. It's nothing, you know, it's just another day.
It's not the game, like, you can't really say anything wrong.
To be honest, you just gotta go out there and
try to bring some energy.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
So Mark Pope has had energy, whether it be you know,
with the fan base. I think from when he first
started here and he had a press conference that you know,
there were thousands of people here watching him from the outside,
because then he's infectious. What is he like day to
day in practice? And maybe how is that different from
from a coach that you've had.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
No, Yeah, he's one of one for sure. His energy
is you know, he never never lacks energy. You know,
he's consistent who he is always. He doesn't try to
change up or be anybody else. He knows who he
is and he tries to be the best him every
day for us. And something you just appreciate as a
player when you have a coach that just does that
for you, you know, it really means that he cares
about you, not just as a basketball player, as a person. So, yeah,
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he brings the energy always and he's just a great coach.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Do you feel like that's translated from when you had
maybe that first FaceTime call with him and what he said,
you know, all the opportunity you can have here. Whatever
his pitch was for you to come here to Kentucky,
that that has pretty much been spot on.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, spot on for sure. Any dreams. He a loted
of me, and he just cut the straight up and
I appreciate that and I always commit him for that always.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I think he said, you're a finance major. Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yeah? I'm not anymore though anymore?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, what uh?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
What if if it wasn't basketball, what would be a
dream A dream job? I mean, I know you said
you were financed, so like numbers.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I mean, I mean, yeah, like dream job. It would
be like the world job, the job in the world
for a living or something.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Okay, number one place you would go on the bucket
list if you could go anywhere in the world right now.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Such a great question. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I think when I asked Jackson, I think he said Switzerland.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
It's a good one. I'll probably give me maybe Spain, Okay, France,
maybe Spain for Japan.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Japan's really that Japan would be really cool. It'd be
quite the flight, that would be like seventeen hours. You'd
be walking, stretching the legs.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
For sure, I need that. But I think Japan would
be really cool.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
So we're gonna go a little off topic right now,
but this is a couple of weeks ago when you
guys got the Drake gear and you got the Devin
Booker shoes and how cool is that? And you just
see we talked about the Kentucky brand playing for Kentucky,
but people like the unveil of the new shoe or
the new gear.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
How fun is that?
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I mean I think I was watching and I was like, Okay,
that's that's really cool.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
That's really cool. It's so fun. You know, people get
to they're showing their support for us. You know, like
you said that the brand of Kentucky is the Bigges
brand college basketball. So it's like you always get on
people showing love and it's just one of one. You know,
you can't replace that. You can't go anywhere else and
get this hype of you know, opportunity and get this
hype of support. So it just means a lot. For sure.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
If Big Blue Nation wanted to know something about you
that they don't already know, what would that be like?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
What would you.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Tell them something about you that you would want them
to know, whether it be about your family growing up
living in Lexington.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I'm a big soccer fan.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Okay, we're going to expand on that.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
People don't really know that I'm a really big soccer fan.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Did you play growing up? Do you like the Premier League?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
What not? Really? I played a little bit like some
rec leagues, but.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I was in like that good basketball is better basket?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
What was better? Uh? Yeah? I like the prem A real.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Madrid, Real Madrid. Okay, so Madrid might be on the list.
A game. There you go, bucket bucket list.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Plays perfect, great game. Game.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
What about what are you excited for just the rest
of the season. I mean, no, getting number nine is
you guys talk about it, you preach it. That's that's
been a sentiment over the entire team. But just this
year in Lexington, you're all experiencing it together. It's Mark
Pope's first year. It's this whole team's first year. I
think I said to somebody else like it's almost like
misfit toys, but it all works right, Like you were
(20:39):
puzzle pieces from all over the country that got put
together and it's been working really really well for you all.
Whether it be like just more games playing together with
this team, more Reprena Experiences number one nine.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Obviously, just being able to just you know, continue to
be able to just represent everybody, representing everybody that came
before for us, everybody that supports us, you know, just
being able to go out there on the court every day.
It just it's a man I look forward to every
single time. You know, I'm never gonna take that for granted.
You know, I'm great, grateful, completely grateful for being putting
this opportunity in this position. So yeah, I'm not looking
(21:15):
forward to being able to go out there and play
more games.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
More games.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I mean you talk about manifesting, Yeah, right, the picture
of the UK, it really is quite the quite the
example of you know, if you speak it into existence,
it can happen.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah. Yeah, you know a lot of a lot of
hard work, a lot of prayer, you know, and anything happened.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So you need to frame the UK, you need to
frame the the newspaper from Mississippi State, and then you
need to frame the picture of the newspaper for MISSIPI.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Not good, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Awesome.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Well, Annsleys, thank you so much for coming on the
podcast today.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Thanks for having me appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
We appreciate it. We can't wait to watch you guys
the rest of this season. This is Behind Kentucky Basketball Podcast,
presented by UK Federal Credit Union.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
We'll see next week.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Enough then, and I know they mm hmm
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