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John Wall promised he wasn’t going anywhere when John Calipari left Kentucky and Mark Pope took over in Lexington. The former Wildcat star admitted it was sad seeing the change and how it all unfolded in March, but at the end of the day, he still bled blue through and through. “It’s sad to see him leave,” Wall said on his podcast Point Game. “I’m still part of Kentucky. I’m still going to be Big Blue Nation. They gave me the opportunity to play on the highest level you can in college basketball in D1, one of the biggest schools ever, and then get an opportunity to go to the NBA. That’s always ...
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Mark Pope made his AAU debut as the Kentucky men’s basketball head coach on Friday. Alongside assistant Jason Hart, the two were roaming the Pacers Athletic Center in Indianapolis all night long to check out their top high school targets. This is the first session in which college coaches are allowed in attendance, so it was a who’s who of the best at their craft. Saturday’s schedule is even more packed, with games running from early in the morning to late in the evening. Pope and Hart were in the building bright and early, but so was another familiar face: Arkansas head coach John Calipari. A...
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Mark Pope has made no ifs, ands, or buts about the task at hand as the head coach at Kentucky. It is a focus that he has maintained from his opening press conference to now and will continue to do until he accomplishes it. Pope discussed his goal with the Wildcats during an appearance on ‘College Hoops Today’ with Jon Rothstein this week. He kept on with his aspiration to win national titles for Kentucky in order to best represent their program and fanbase during his tenure. “Like, I do believe that the most satisfying thing, the thing that’s required here and is more important than anything e...
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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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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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Mark Pope asked and Big Blue Nation has delivered in a big way, raising over $915,000 since donations opened for Club Blue’s NIL initiative ahead of the NEW ERA Men’s Basketball Event on June 15. The Kentucky head coach announced the meet-and-greet event on April 29, setting a May 15 deadline for new subscribers to participate. In a few short weeks, Club Blue has raised just short of the $1 million goal it set following Pope’s arrival and is hoping to clear that mark by the time the deadline hits Wednesday evening at midnight. “I mean, it’s everything for us and for this program. And we’re so ...
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Kentucky now has 10 players from the efforts of Mark Pope and his staff ahead of his first season. Now, the focus for the Wildcats’ new head coach are his last two roster spots with a third opening still available as well. Pope spoke with CBS’ Sports Jon Rothstein on ‘College Hoops Today’ about everything regarding his new job on Monday. That included the next thing to do as far as his team, which he says is filling two more scholarships. That would leave a third one for them to use as they see fit moving forward. “We’re at 10 scholarships right now. I have two really, really important pieces ...
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Mark Pope has been living on the recruiting trail over the last several weeks. With 10 pieces locked in for his debut roster in 2024-25, he can afford to be a bit more deliberate with the final few scholarships. Men’s basketball teams are allowed 13 scholarships by the NCAA, so Pope has three spots left to fill. A handful of targets have been mentioned plenty in recent weeks, most notably North Florida’s Chaz Lanier, Miami’s Wooga Poplar, and BYU’s Jaxson Robinson. Kentucky is hosting Fairleigh Dickinson’s Ansley Almonor this week and has also been confirmed to have shown recent interest in UC...
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Over the last two seasons, Lauri Markkanen has gone from being a solid starting piece to a bonafide NBA All-Star with the Utah Jazz. New Kentucky head coach Mark Pope is hoping to see similar production at the college level from one of his transfer portal additions. According to Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports, he was told that Pope is hoping for a “Lauri Markkanen type role” with the Wildcats from Wake Forest transfer Andrew Carr for the upcoming 2024-25 season. Carr began his career at Delaware before spending the last two seasons at Wake Forest. He was considered a Top 75 portal prospect this o...
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