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It's Huskies South: Kepnang Follows Diallo to Kentucky

Washington Huskies On SI·Dan Raley·23 days ago
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Franck Kepnang has become the second former University of Washington basketball player to transfer to Kentucky, where the 6-foot-11 center will reunite with guard Zoom Diallo and join one of the nation's blue-blood programs. Those two will play for Wildcats coach Mark Pope, himself a one-time UW forward during his long ago playing career. On Saturday, Kepnang made his plans known and will spend a seventh college basketball season in Lexington, Kentucky, after playing four in Montlake and his first two at Oregon. This past winter, Kepnang appeared in 27 outings and started 25 -- the closest he came to a full season during four injury-filled years with the Huskies. Diallo was a 29-game starter while playing in 33 games for a 16-17 UW team. So the lure of Kentucky has done a lot of damage to Danny Sprinkle's rebuilding efforts by taking two starters from him during this particular transfer portal period. Kentucky adds 24-year-old Washington transfer big man Franck Kepnang.…

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