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It wasn’t perfect, but Mark Pope’s first season as Kentucky men’s basketball coach should be judged a success.

Kentucky ended Pope’s first season seventh in NCAA Division I men’s hoops in scoring, averaging 84.4 points a game. The formulas of basketball statistical mavens Ken Pomeroy and Bart Torvik rated the ...

Kentucky basketball fans can vote for which UK coach had the best debut season. How does Mark Pope stack up? The poll closes at 6 p.m. Thursday.

So Mark Pope’s debut season as the head men’s basketball coach at his college alma mater ended in the Sweet 16 with a 24-12 record. By Kentucky standards, 24-12 is not an exceptional season.

Since the moment Mark Pope was hired at Kentucky, Rick Pitino has had his back. And now that his protege has wrapped up his ...

Tubby Smith won The Courier Journal poll for which Kentucky basketball coach had the best debut season ... Updates on Mark Pope's 2025-26 UK roster Brown: It wasn’t ending Kentucky basketball ...

Kentucky head coach Mark Pope has put together an impressive debut season at the program after inheriting a team that had zero returning scholarship players following John Calipari's departure to ...

Mark Pope’s debut season as Kentucky’s head coach just keeps getting better. After guiding the Wildcats to a thrilling 84-75 victory over Illinois and securing the program’s first Sweet 16 ...

The consensus around Mark Pope's first season as head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats is positive. He produced a solid regular season and took UK to the Sweet 16. It's been a good debut.