Kentucky's Mark Pope started his coaching career at Rupp Arena with 11 straight wins. How does that start compare to other first-year UK coaches?

Mark Pope will be the first to tell you he would not be coaching at all had he not transferred from Washington to become a Wildcat in 1994. He nearly didn’t anyway, enrolling in medical school at Columbia University as a Rhodes Scholar candidate before he quit to ‘fold laundry and hand out water’ as ‘the assistant to the operations guy’ under Mark

While still building UK basketball's 2025 recruiting class, Mark Pope and his staff have kept tabs on 2026. These 10 players have offers from Kentucky

Pope's Wildcats have enjoyed a fast start this season. His success has reached a point where media pundits like ESPN's Jay Williams deemed him the favorite to earn national Coach of the Year honors. However, Kentucky's latest loss to Vanderbilt has effectively crushed the dream, and even the fans know it.

A Kentucky basketball jersey signed by both Popes?! It exists thanks to Father Jim Sichko of Lexington, who packed a jersey signed by Mark Pope on his latest trip to the Vatican to see Pope Francis. Father Jim has delivered several Kentucky-themed gifts to the Pope in the past–a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle and an unsigned Mark Pope jersey,

Acaden Lewis didn’t expect Mark Pope to keep following him. Pope, who flew up to Washington D.C. to recruit Lewis, a four-star guard in the high school class of 2025, had just finished eating lunch with Lewis. At that point, Lewis expected them to part ways as he headed for a haircut.

LEXINGTON — Normally jovial and verbose during postgame news conferences, Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope struck a different tone after last week's game against Alabama at Rupp Arena.

It was bound to happen sooner or later, but this Kentucky men's basketball team has hit a rough spot. — ©2025. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

John Calipari's first season with the Arkansas Razorbacks hasn't gone according to plan. Calipari's squad is just 12-8 despite a loaded recruiting and transfer

John Calipari's legacy in Lexington extends beyond what his Kentucky Wildcats did on the court. Kentucky residents share meaningful moments for them.

John Calipari is less than 1 week away from making his first trip back to Lexington since leaving Kentucky's head coaching job.

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