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Big Blue Links for Sunday:

• Kentucky thumps Tennessee to reach finals, reports Jerry Tipton of the Herald-Leader.
• My column saying that Kentucky proved that it thinks the SEC Tournament does matter.
• Tipton’s notes lead with Mississippi State’s second chance.
• Herald-Leader photo slide show of Kentucky win over Tennessee.
• Kentucky-Tennessee turned into a chipfest, reports Brett Dawson of the Courier-Journal.
• David Climer of the Tennessean writes that the blue dust will bother Mississippi State.
• Mike Griffith of the Knoxville News-Sentinel calls Saturday a Big Blue beatdown.
• What went wrong for Tennessee? Almost everything, writes John Adams of the News-Sentinel.
• Pat Dooley of the Gainesville Sun writes that Big Blue days are here again.
• A huge 27-4 run helped Kentucky rout the Vols, writes Darrell Bird of the Cats Pause.
• Mark Wiedmer of the Chattanooga Times Free Press on Kentucky’s domination.

• Larry Vaught of the Danville Advocate-Messenger on Eric Bledsoe and the three-point shot.
• Mississippi State ready for the Cats in the final, writes Metz Camfield in the Kentucky Kernel.
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  James Pennington of the Kernel calls Kentucky’s thumping of Tennessee UK’s best game of the year.

• Tom Leach has video of Mississippi State’s post-game press conference.
• Sean Deveny of the Sporting News gives four ways Mississippi State could beat Kentucky today.
• Nation of Blue remembers the Mississippi State water bottles.
• Thumbs-up/thumbs-down from Ryan Lemond of Kentucky Sports Network.
• Eric Lindsey of Cat Scratches on Kentucky fans again proving to be nation’s best.
• Chris Setters of Kentucky Ink on the toppling of Rocky Top.
• Kentucky Sports Radio has some post-game UK-UT notes.
• Big Blue Lowdown on crushing the Big Orange.
• Inner Circle speculates on the language of the Cousins-Calipari confrontation.
• A Kentucky-Mississippi State preview from Wildcat Blue Blog.
• A Kentucky-Mississippi State breakdown from Blue Nation blog.