“We have one assignment, and that’s to get number nine.” Mark Pope has been a busy man for the Kentucky Wildcats, and that’s included a series of interviews this week with national reporters.
“He knows the Kentucky way.” The Kentucky Wildcats are starting to pull together their basketball roster for next season after the team’s recruiting class was gutted when John Calipari announced he was heading to Arkansas.
Mark Pope adds another in-state talent to next year’s roster. Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats have been outstanding when it comes to adding transfer portal players to the roster for next season.
Mark Pope is still hard at work preparing his roster for this upcoming season. The new era in Lexington is in full swing, and the newest Kentucky Basketball head coach, Mark Pope, has taken no days off since being hired.
Kentucky's new head basketball coach, Mark Pope, currently has nine members of his 2024-25 roster, so it's not quite completed yet but almost there. Coach
Kentucky basketball doesn’t seem to be lagging any money since the departure of John Calipari. The Wildcats have close to $700,000 in new recurring NIL contributions from fans since Mark Pope took over the program, per The Athletic.
Mark Pope was at the Kentucky Derby this weekend, but now he and his staff are back on the recruiting trail, looking to keep adding players to the 2024-25 roster. The roster is coming together very nicely, as the Wildcats are adding a good mix of lockdown defenders and scorers.
Mark Pope, the new Kentucky basketball head coach, is in a tough position following John Calipari. While the end of the Calipari era likely left many Wildcats fans with a bitter taste in their mouths, Calipari’s ability to recruit can make expectations possibly too high for Pope to reach.
We are officially in the Mark Pope era as John Calipari has left for Arkansas, and there are going to be a lot of changes. Big Blue Nation has gotten used to five-star recruits turning into one-and-done players making the move to the NBA.
The John Calipari era is over, and now it is time for a Pope takeover in Lexington. Mitch Barnhart hired former Wildcats basketball player and member of
The Kentucky Wildcats have been looking to add some elite talent to the backcourt, and yesterday, Mark Pope got that mission completed. This was the conversation
One of the two additions Coach Mark Pope made to the 2024-25 roster yesterday was Koby Brea, and this kid can shoot the ball. Last season for the Dayton Flyers, Brea averaged 11.1 points, 3.8 rebounds, and 1.2 assists per game.
The last few weeks have been very busy in Lexington since the Kentucky Wildcats were eliminated in the first round of the 2024 Men’s NCAA Tournament by Oakland.
Mark Pope is the new head coach of the Kentucky basketball team after John Calipari left the Wildcats to go coach at Arkansas. Pope recently came close to landing some big transfer portal commits, but he missed on a couple early on.
Mark Pope is the new head coach of the Kentucky basketball team as he is replacing John Calipari, who left for Arkansas. Pope played his college basketball with the Wildcats, and he is now coming back to Lexington as a head coach.
AUSTIN -- The Texas Longhorns will need to look elsewhere in the transfer portal for their frontcourt needs this offseason. Per an announcement Tuesday from his social media accounts, Oklahoma State transfer center Brandon Garrison has committed to Kentucky, choosing the Wildcats over Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
When the entire roster from the season before leaves, it will take a ton of transfer portal additions to fill a roster for the next season. It took Mark
The Kentucky Wildcats are ushering in a new era under new head coach Mark Pope. It will be the first time since 2009 that John Calipari is not at the helm for the Wildcats.
New Kentucky coach Mark Pope is rebuilding his squad through the transfer portal, and he is bringing in some experience to do it.
New Arkansas Razorbacks head coach John Calipari, who resigned from his position as the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats earlier this month, is already
Reed Sheppard is still not sure if he'll enter the NBA Draft as a certain lottery pick or come back to Kentucky.
A huge section of Kentucky Wildcats fans reacted harshly the moment they announced Mark Pope would take over as the program’s new head coach. Understandably, some sections of fans would be unhappy with the hire after missing out on some of the big-name coaches they were initially linked with.
New Kentucky HC Mark Pope certainly has the fans behind him, for now anyway.
New Kentucky men's basketball coach Mark Pope looked around a full Rupp Arena on Sunday afternoon and ramped up the expectation. Part of why John Calipari
Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats staged quite the event for their new coach’s introduction on Sunday.
Kentucky fans might be underwhelmed by the hire of HC Mark Pope, but that doesn't mean it was a bad hire.
BYU coach Mark Pope, who won a national title as a player with Kentucky, will return to his alma mater and succeed John Calipari as head coach, Wildcats athletic director Mitch Barnhart announced Friday.
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