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An 0-3 ‘wake-up call’ launched UK to 21-match win streak. Now comes the NCAA tourney.

Coming into this year with a preseason No. 5 ranking after last season’s run to NCAA Volleyball Tournament quarterfinals, Kentucky expected to keep rolling in 2018.

But reality set in quickly. A trip out west to begin the season against some of the top teams the Cats were supposed to be on par with or better than yielded three tough losses.

“No one ever goes into a game thinking you’re going to lose, so to go 0-3 definitely changed all of our perspectives,” Leah Edmond said Tuesday as her team prepared to host Murray State at 7:30 p.