"He Was Going to Kill Us": Mark Pope Recalls Rick Pitino’s Chilling Words to Kentucky Team originally appeared on Athlon ...

As a former player at Kentucky, Mark Pope knows the expectations that should be set when playing at Kentucky. The high ...

Kentucky Wildcats head coach Mark Pope has high expectations for freshman Malachi Moreno as the Great Crossing High School ...

“... He’s like a proud dad, but yeah, he’s cool,” added Collins, who was coached by Pope earlier this summer as part of a USA ...

It took Mark Pope‘s first Kentucky team longer than hoped to reach the point where defense was no longer an issue. It wasn’t ...

Although it fell short of his very high expectations, Mark Pope’s first season at Kentucky was a success. He took the Cats back to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2019, tied the NCAA record for ...

Rick Pitino told his 1996 Kentucky basketball team that he would kill them if they didn't win every game, according to Mark ...

Mark Pope and the Kentucky staff wanted to check a couple of boxes this off-season, and one of those was athleticism. The ...

Throughout the summer, several Wildcats have said they believe Kentucky can be one of the best defensive teams in the country ...

Andrija Jelavic is the only member of Kentucky's 2025-26 still not on campus. but Mark Pope shared an encouraging update on ...

As Pope said, the Wildcats have a long way to go to get where they want to be to reach that defensive potential that the players are preaching about. This article was originally published on ...

Kam Williams is doing exactly what Mark Pope is asking him. Five weeks into Kentucky men’s basketball’s summer practice, ...