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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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Mark Pope is back on the recruiting trail. This time, he’s in Chicago at the NBA’s G League Elite Camp to check on a handful of potential transfer portal additions. Most notably, Pope is there to watch North Florida transfer Chaz Lanier. Sports Illustrated’s Kevin Sweeney posted on social media that Pope is in attendance at the camp, which began on Saturday and continues throughout Sunday. The G League invited 45 prospects to participate with a select number of them sliding into the 2024 NBA Draft Combine, which begins on Monday. Lanier, who averaged 19.7 points and 4.8 rebounds per game last ...
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Mark Pope didn’t shy away from expectations when he first took the job at Kentucky, saying from day one he wants the weight of No. 9 on his shoulders. It’s a standard he believes is a non-negotiable when you sit in that chair as the leader of the Wildcats. Since then, he’s double, triple and quadrupled down on that approach, namely in the players he’s bringing in to help bring the next national championship banner back to Lexington. Pope sat down with Andy Katz of NCAA.com to talk about those expectations and the roster he’s building to turn those dreams into a reality, among other notes — inc...
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It is truly head on a swivel season for new head Kentucky men’s basketball coach Mark Pope. After adding Trent Noah to the roster on Wednesday, the Wildcats now have 10 scholarship players and are not done building yet. On Friday night, Mark Pope joined Jeff Goodman on the Field of 68 to discuss the Kentucky job and building his first roster. The former BYU head coach loves how the pieces are coming together for the Wildcats. “We’ve been really blessed to put together a roster that I think fits brilliantly what we’re trying to do. Andrew Carr was born to play for us. Koby Brea is the most effi...
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