Here’s everything the UK coach said after his team was eliminated from the NCAA field. Kentucky head coach Mark Pope calls to his players during Friday’s Sweet 16 game against Tennessee at ...

UK basketball coach Mark Pope has had players begin postgame press conferences this season with opening statements, which are normally done by the coach. Ryan C. Hermens [email protected] ...

First-year head coach Mark Pope — who famously was a captain on UK’s 1996 national title team — has taken the Wildcats beyond the first week of March Madness for the first time in six years.

Or, as Pope phrased it during one news conference this year, the reports are "dead and buried" once the "autopsy" is complete. Yet single games aren't the only time UK's coaches go "under the ...

Mark Pope’s first season as the Kentucky men’s basketball coach has come to an end. Pope’s Wildcats lost in the Sweet 16 of the 2025 NCAA Tournament on Friday night, dropping a 78-65 contest to the ...

For the first time since 2019, the Kentucky men’s basketball team is going to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. First-year head coach Mark Pope — who famously was a captain on UK’s 1996 national ...