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.
BBN is backing Coach Pope. The Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball program has been through the wringer for the last three months. From one of the most electric teams in the country to losing in the first to then seeing their long-time head coach head elsewhere, there were a lot of unknowns for the program moving forward.
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.
Pope drove to Nashville himself to bring the Carr family to Lexington. Mark Pope and his staff continue to construct the Kentucky Wildcats’ 2024-25 basketball roster.
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
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 Kentucky Wildcats last week added a ton of talent on the defensive end of the floor, so it was time to get some elite scoring guards. Mark Pope did just that as he added former West Virginia point guard Kerr Kriisa to the 2024-25 roster. Last season for West Virginia, Kriisa averaged 11 points, 2.5 rebounds, and 4.7 assists per game.
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
Exciting times are ahead for the Kentucky Wildcats as Mark Pope seems to be off to a bright start. The amount of support he got from his introductory press conference turned the event into a rally that the program and its fanbase badly needed.
Reed Sheppard is still not sure if he'll enter the NBA Draft as a certain lottery pick or come back to Kentucky.
Another Kentucky Wildcats big man is leaving the program, with Ugonna Onyenso declaring that he’s ready to turn pro by way of the 2024 NBA Draft. The option to return to Lexington — or college in general — is still there for Onyenso but it doesn’t sound like it’s part of his plan.
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.
The captain of Rick Pitino’s 1996 “Untouchables”, Mark Pope, is “coming home” to lead the Kentucky Wildcats as the program’s next head coach, officially announced on Friday.
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.
It’s the beginning of a new era for the Kentucky Wildcats. Although nothing has been officially announced yet about the successor of John Calipari as head coach of the SEC program, it appears that BYU Cougars mentor Mark Pope has the job virtually in the bag.
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