The first celebrated practice of the season isn’t until Friday at Big Blue Madness, but for the UK women’s basketball team, practice began last week.

A new NCAA rule, bylaw 17.3.2.2, allows for women’s basketball teams to being practicing 40 days before the institution’s first regular-season contest. The team is not allowed more than 30 days of “countable athletically related activities before its first regular-season contest.”

UK’s first game is Nov. 12 against Morehead State.

With UK now in its second week of practice, head coach Matthew Mitchell provided a short video update on his team:

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