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Mark Pope has put together a basketball team that has enough talent to do something very special during the 2025-26 season.
Kentucky basketball historically is one of the best programs in college basketball, but over the last handful of years, the ...
Mark Pope‘s coaching staff is casting a wider net following the summer evaluation period. In recent days, we’ve seen a wave ...
A big part of the future of college basketball is the transfer portal, and now, having put two rosters together during his ...
Earlier this summer, Kentucky’s Mark Pope directly coached some of the nation’s top college basketball recruits.
Mark Pope did an excellent job of landing elite talent to put together his 2025-26 roster. Adding players from the transfer portal, high school recruiting, and ...
When constructing his second UK basketball roster, Mark Pope made sure he would have more backup plans than he did last ...
Mark Pope has been known to speak in hyperbole from time to time, but he sure does make a good hype man. His latest ...
Throughout the summer, several Wildcats have said they believe Kentucky can be one of the best defensive teams in the country ...
New Kentucky men's basketball coach Mark Pope learned many lessons as a Wildcats player. He plans to instill all-out intensity in his squad.
Mark Pope lost both of his NCAA Tournament games at BYU As mentioned earlier, Pope is 0-2 as a head coach in NCAA Tournament games. In 2021, Pope oversaw 6 seeded BYU’s upset loss to 11 seeded UCLA.
Mark Pope talks differently. Through seven months on the job, one thing we’ve learned about Kentucky’s new head coach is that he doesn’t talk like any previous Kentucky basketball head coach.