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Chase Swearingen from Westerville, Ohio, has introduced his intention to swim and examine on the College of Kentucky. The highest 100 butterflyer within the cohort, he’s our Tenth-ranked recruit on the Manner Too Early Record of top-20 boys in the highschool class of 2024.
“I’m really blessed to announce my dedication to the College of Kentucky! Thanks to all of my coaches and my teammates all through the years, who’ve helped me attain this aim! Thanks to all the coaches at The College of Kentucky, for believing in me and giving me this chance! Go Cats🐱!⚪️🔵#bbn”
Swearingen is a junior at Westerville Central Excessive Faculty. He got here in third within the 100 fly (47.17) and third within the 100 breast (55.21) as a sophomore on the 2022 Ohio State Excessive Faculty Division 1 Championships final February. He went finest instances in each occasions in prelims on the state meet. As a freshman, he got here in fourth within the 100 fly (49.46) and ninth within the 100 again (50.38).
In membership swimming, the place he represents New Albany Aquatic Membership, Swearingen confirmed off his dash prowess on the NCSA Spring Championships, ending third within the 50 breast (24.78), seventh within the 50 fly (21.96), sixth within the 100 fly (47.88), eighth within the 200 fly (1:49.12), and fifteenth within the 50 free (20.93).
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Greatest SCY instances:
50 fly – 21.82
100 fly – 47.12
200 fly – 1:47.92
50 free – 20.56
100 breast – 55.19
200 breast – 2:08.35
200 again – 1:57.60
200 IM – 1:54.41
Swearingen is a pleasant pickup for the Wildcats, who completed eighth out of ten groups within the males’s meet at 2022 SEC Championships. He would have been Kentucky’s quickest 100 flyer by 1.2 seconds final season and would have solely missed qualifying for the B closing by .18. He wouldn’t have been far off qualifying for the C closing within the 200 fly (it took 1:46.58) and would have ranked fourth on the UK roster behind MasonWilby (1:40.15), Jackson Mussler (1:44.19), and Zane Rosely (1:45.03). He can be a giant assistance on the medley relays, as his flat-start 50/100 fly instances are already each half a second sooner than UK’s rolling-start splits final yr.
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Western Kentucky Hilltoppers (3-2) at Kentucky Wildcats (5-0)
Lexington, Kentucky; Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. EST
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BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Wildcats -22.5; over/under is 164
BOTTOM LINE: No. 8 Kentucky takes on Western Kentucky after Koby Brea scored 22 points in Kentucky’s 108-59 win over the Jackson State Tigers.
The Wildcats have gone 4-0 at home. Kentucky is 10th in college basketball averaging 12.6 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 42.3% from downtown. Brea leads the team averaging 4.0 makes while shooting 74.1% from 3-point range.
The Hilltoppers are 0-1 in road games. Western Kentucky ranks third in the CUSA shooting 37.4% from 3-point range.
Kentucky scores 97.0 points, 24.2 more per game than the 72.8 Western Kentucky allows. Western Kentucky averages 9.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.8 more made shots on average than the 6.0 per game Kentucky gives up.
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TOP PERFORMERS: Brea is shooting 74.1% from beyond the arc with 4.0 made 3-pointers per game for the Wildcats, while averaging 16 points.
Julius Thedford averages 2.4 made 3-pointers per game for the Hilltoppers, scoring 11.4 points while shooting 54.5% from beyond the arc.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
Mark Stoops owns a five-game winning streak in the Governor’s Cup series. The Wildcats have won three games in a row at L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium and have not lost to Louisville at Kroger Field since 2017 when Bobby Petrino was holding the call sheet and and Lamar Jackson was playing quarterback. The Wildcats have also covered a lot of spreads in this series.
Stoops is 7-2-1 against-the-spread (ATS) in this series with with covers as a double-digit dog in 2014 and 2016. Kentucky has beaten Louisville outright as a dog three times since 2016 and has covered five straight in this series. Those are not the only trends going in Kentucky’s direction heading into this Week 14 contest.
Louisville is 0-4-1 ATS as a road favorite under Jeff Brohm with outright losses to Pittsburgh and Stanford. Kentucky is 5-0-1 ATS as a dog in its last six outing including four games this season. Kentucky covered numbers as a double-digit dog against Georgia, Ole Miss, Tennessee, and Texas this season.
The visitor is 11-3-1 ATS (5-10 outright) in the last 14 meetings of this series with 10 outright wins but Kentucky has won the last two meetings at Kroger Field covering each times as a three-point favorite. In 2019, Kentucky ran away for a 45-13 victory and cruised to a 26-13 victory in 2022.
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Kentucky has consistently overachieved pregame expectations in this series. The Wildcats are currently a 3.5-point dog with a total of 48.5. That’s a projected final score of 26-22.5. Will UK exceed expectations again against Louisville? A win would equal four outright upsets for the Big Blue in the last eight meetings of the series.
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Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats are getting ready to host the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers for an in-state battle in Rupp Arena. This is a game that is always fun as it brings different parts of Kentucky together to share in the state’s favorite pastime, which is basketball.
WKU is 3-2 on the season with wins over Lipscomb, Jackson State, and Campbellsville. The Hilltoppers lost to Wichita State and Grand Canyon.
While Kentucky steamrolled Lipscomb, they are a solid team, and Western Kentucky was able to take them down 66-61, so the Wildcats can’t look past this matchup. This shouldn’t be an issue as Coach Pope respects the game and doesn’t let his team look past an opponent.
While WKU is a solid mid-major team, ESPN doesn’t seem to think the Wildcats will have any issue taking down the Hilltoppers, as they give Kentucky a 97.5% chance to win this game.
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The best player for the Hilltoppers is guard Don McHenry, who is averaging 17.2 points per game five games into the season. The 6’2 guard is shooting 32.4% from three on the season, but he lets a lot of them fly, so the Wildcats can let him get hot from deep.
The goal for this Kentucky team when they take on WKU should be to keep working on defense and rebounding while the offense keeps doing what it has been doing all season long. If the Wildcats can keep improving in these two areas, they will be hard to beat come SEC play and March.
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