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Big Blue Links for Thursday:

• Kentucky offers 2012 guard Archie Goodwin, reports Arkansas 360. (Hat tip to Aaron’s UK Basketball Blog)
• Yahoo Sports info on Archie Goodwin, out of Little Rock.
• Doron Lamb’s 32 sets freshmen record and leads UK rout of Winthrop, writes Jerry Tipton of the Herald-Leader.
• My post-game column says a super six might be all John Calipari needs.
• Eloy Vargas asserted himself, writes Tipton in his post-game notes.
• Lamb chops Winthrop is the clever Cats Pause headline over Matt May’s roundup.
• Lamb scores 32 as UK wallops Winthrop, writes Will Graves of the AP.
• Kanter’s father guarantees his son would come back if asked to sit out a year, reports Mike DeCourcy of the Sporting News.
• UK quarterback Ryan Mossakowski will play baseball, reports Bleed Blue Kentucky.
• Larry Vaught of the Danville Advocate-Messenger thinks Enes Kanter will absolutely stay at UK.

• Lamb anything but a bench player, writes Aaron Smith of the Kentucky Kernel.
• Michael Gilchrist named MVP in City of Palms Classic, reports All Kentucky Hoops.
• Lamb can’t crack starting lineup, but he sure can score, writes Brett Dawson of the Courier-Journal.
• Down goes Jamal Mashburn’s long-standing mark, writes Eric Lindsey of Cat Scratches.
• A Sea of Blue does its postmortem on the Kentucky win over Winthrop.
• Kentucky Sports Network offers thumbs-up and thumbs-down from the UK win over Winthrop.
• Lamb pours it on in Kentucky win, writes Chris Fisher of BigBlue247.
• The Big Bluegrass Blog thinks Rick Pitino has lost his mind.