Leadership is a big part of any sports team, and that is the case with this year's Kentucky basketball team. Knowing the Wildcats lost a lot of veteran players ...

Last season, the expectations weren't that high for Coach Pope in year one, but he found a way to make the Sweet 16. If he is able to exceed expectations this year, it could lead to a national title.

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 ...

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.

When constructing his second UK basketball roster, Mark Pope made sure he would have more backup plans than he did last ...

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.

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.

Kentucky is college basketball's winningest program. But it's fallen short of that standard in recent years. Here's how Mark Pope aims to change that.

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.

Mark Pope is off to a 4-0 start as Kentucky’s head coach after Tuesday night’s 97-68 win over Lipscomb. Ryan C. Hermens [email protected] Yes, that’s analytics. Pope is a numbers guy.