Mark Pope is a collegiate basketball coach and former player, serving as the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team, as of February 2025. Mark Pope attended Newport High School ...

Coach Mark Pope and John Calipari are about to coach against one another in one of the most highly anticipated games this season. Year one in Arkansas for Coach Calipari has not gone great ...

Mark Pope’s Kentucky Wildcats don’t play any more defense than John Calipari’s final team that couldn’t guard a Division II transfer last March. Kentucky gets buried under a barrage of 3 ...

When Mark Pope was announced as the head basketball coach of the Kentucky Wildcats, the response from Big Blue Nation and college basketball fans was mixed. Some thought it was a home run hire ...

Kentucky Wildcats head coach Mark Pope reacts during the first half against the Ole Miss Rebels at The Sandy and John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss. Photo: Imagn Things are going from bad to worse ...

And that beginning ran counter to everything that is known about Mark Pope’s team. These Wildcats excel on the offensive end. They came into this matchup ranked third nationally in offensive ...

For Mark Pope, that moment came late Saturday night in a Rupp Arena filled by disappointment. In a game against the immediate past Kentucky head coach, in which the Big Blue Nation desperately ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Mark Pope rides the elevator at Rupp Arena to the third floor, takes the stairs to the upper deck and keeps climbing. He stops at Row Q in Section 213, turns to his left and ...

Mark Pope’s Wildcats don’t play any more defense than Calipari’s final team that couldn’t guard a Division II transfer who played for Oakland last March. Joy ride’s over, folks ...