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There are plenty of basketball rivalries for Arkansas, especially with the SEC adding Texas and Oklahoma this season. But one game sticks out more than the others due to John Calipari. A trip to Rupp Arena to face Kentucky will likely be the most anticipated game of the SEC season, mainly since it’s taking place in Lexington. Everyone wondered where the game would take place but Calipari is not surprised at all. “Was there any doubt that we were going to Rupp Arena? In one way, I look forward to it. In another, I’m not going to look forward to it,” Calipari said. Arkansas and Kentucky have pla...
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Kentucky basketball has crossed a major NIL milestone. Kentucky Sports Radio’s Matt Jones announced Wednesday morning the Wildcat-driven NIL collective Club Blue hit $1 million in NIL donations through recurring annual commitments from the general fanbase. The fundraising efforts give new coach Mark Pope a strong NIL foundation to work with. The former Kentucky player and national champion, Pope has delivered on the recruiting trail since landing in Lexington last month. He’s picked up transfer commitments from Kerr Kriisa, Koby Brea, Brandon Garrison, Andrew Carr, Otega Oweh, Lamont Butler Jr...
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After trimming his list to four schools, Grand Valley State defensive tackle Jay’viar Suggs has announced a commitment date. The transfer will make his choice on Wednesday at an unspecified time, he announced on his Twitter account on Tuesday evening. Kentucky, LSU, Michigan and Wisconsin are the four finalists for his service. LSU got into the mix late but managed to bump a team from Suggs’ initial list of a final six, which included the likes of Arkansas, Florida State and USC. Those three schools were cut with the tightening of the list down to four. Florida State had seemed to be in a prom...
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Kentucky has picked up a specialist out of the NCAA transfer portal, landing a commitment from UT-Martin kicker Aidan Laros on Tuesday afternoon. Laros announced his commitment on Twitter. The addition is a significant one for Kentucky, as Laros is a fairly accomplished kicker. He was an Associated Press first-team FCS All-American in 2023. He previously played for the Charlotte 49ers, under head coach Will Healy. In 2022, he handled kickoff duties for the 49ers, averaging 60.6 yards per kickoff attempt over the course of 51 kickoffs for that season. He had 28 touchbacks and opponents only ret...
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Mark Pope became the head coach at Kentucky after a nine-year career at Utah Valley and BYU. However, he doesn’t feel like he’d have been able to take his dream job had it not been for his last season with the Cougars as a member of the Big 12. Pope spoke about his last year in Provo and how it prepared him during ‘College Hoops Today’ on Monday. In his opinion, he wouldn’t have been prepared to be at Kentucky without that season in the Big 12. That’s because the standard for any coaching candidate in Lexington should be through the roof to him. “No, no,” Pope told Jon Rothstein in regards to ...
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As if by fate, new Kentucky head coach Mark Pope says he enjoyed a special moment with former Wildcat coaches Tubby Smith and John Calipari just days before he would become the new leader in Lexington. Pope, Calipari and Smith were among many current and former college basketball coaches who attended the Final Four. It was one week to the day after those Saturday Final Four games when Pope was announced as the new Kentucky coach, but when he ran into Smith and Calipari in Phoenix, the three men had no idea about the whirlwind of change that was about to occur. While speaking with Jon Rothstein...
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Kentucky head coach Mark Pope does not plan on riding with training wheels during his first year at the program. During an appearance on “College Hoops Today with Jon Rothstein,” Pope teased a couple of massive non-conference matchups in his debut campaign. “We’re working on one or two that we hope we’ll get at,” Pope said. “It’s Kentucky. The schedule is unbelievable. So, it’s going to be really fun.” Kentucky already has numerous strong non-conference opponents scheduled in the 2024-25 season. The ‘Cats will face off against Duke in the Champions Classic, Ohio State in the CBS Sports Classic...
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The coaching search for Kentucky moved quickly after the departure of John Calipari. Over the course of a few days, a handful of top candidates were in line with connections to the Wildcats. However, the surprising hire at the time then came down with the choice of BYU’s Mark Pope. During an interview on ‘College Hoops Today’ on Monday, Pope discussed his experience in that process, including the involvement of Baylor’s Scott Drew. While he was appreciative to have his name involved in the search, most of the candidates believed, much like the fanbases did at a point, that Drew, the one-time n...
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A successor and a predecessor don’t often have much of a relationship, let alone a good one. One might expect that to be the case at Kentucky with how the offseason went with John Calipari choosing to leave and Mark Pope coming in as the next head coach of the program. However, that’s not the case with how Coach Pope feels about Coach Cal. Pope discussed what his relationship with Calipari has been like since taking on his former job during an interview with CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein on ‘College Hoops Today’ on Monday. In doing so, he expressed his gratitude for him with what he has done for t...
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It’s been just over a month since Kentucky officially named Mark Pope its next men’s basketball head coach. During an appearance on “College Hoops Today with Jon Rothstein,” Pope revealed how life has been since he accepted the job. “If you’re a little bit of an adrenaline junkie and you love this game and college basketball coaching, then it’s heaven,” Pope said. “You’re gonna hear this from me until you just get sick of it, but this is basketball heaven. It just is. “It’s almost unthinkable to think that you get an opportunity to come here to the University of Kentucky and take a swing at it...
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