Kentucky basketball has been through four conference games so far, and all of them have been all about what the SEC is, and that is physical and bruising. After
By Keith Taylor Kentucky Today Kentucky coach Mark Pope isn’t returning to the drawing board after his team’s 82-69 loss to Georgia earlier this week. Instead, the Kentucky coach wants his squad to stay the course and focus on improving,
Georgia was simply too tough to tame on this night, handing Kentucky an 82-69 loss at Stegeman Coliseum. Brown: Kentucky basketball's Lamont Butler embodies toughness Mark Pope wants to play ...
Mark Pope’s squad rallied to win that game, escaping with a 90-89 overtime win. History didn’t repeat itself Tuesday. There was no second-half comeback for UK. Georgia was simply too tough ...
Before Mark Pope’s first visit to Memorial Gym as Kentucky’s coach, he strolled down memory lane to recall some funny moments from road games as a player.
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
This is new territory for Mark Pope, his Wildcats, and the Big Blue Nation. Kentucky lost its first home game of the Pope era despite Rupp Arena’s best effort from the stands. Pope was dejected after the defeat,
First-year Kentucky coach Mark Pope was denied his 200 th career win. Former Georgia coach Mark Fox returned to Stegeman as Wildcats associate coach. The Bulldogs' first seven SEC games are ...
Although the league is stocked from top to bottom, the Kentucky coach said it’s “awesome” and “fun” to be part of a challenging conference. The No. 8 Wildcats host fourth-ranked Alabama Saturday in the team’s third straight home game against a Top 10 foe for the first time in school history.
Kentucky is cooking, having dealt Florida its first loss of the season two weeks ago before pulling off hard-nosed wins against ranked conference opponents in Mississippi State and Texas A&M. The Wildcats’ loss at Georgia on Jan. 7 was a bummer, but the response was electric — 16-of-32 shooting on treys and 95 total points in a frenzied Starkville.
Kentucky has shown an improved ability to play physical and rebound in its two most recent wins over ranked SEC teams.
Good morning, friends. Today is a big day on several fronts. First, the No. 11 Kentucky Women’s Basketball team takes its undefeated SEC record to College Station for a big game vs. Texas A&M. Secondly,