After the game, the team, along with Pope, Lee Anne Pope, and Mitch Barnhart, all met at halfcourt, where Barnhart presented Pope with a bourbon barrel top to remember Pope’s first win as the Kentucky ...

The Kentucky Wildcats opened the season strong with a 103-62 beatdown of Wright State in Mark Pope's coaching debut for his alma mater, a strong opening statement to start off his tenure in Lexington, ...

Coach John Calipari leaving for Arkansas came as a bit of a shock, so it is always interesting to hear his former Kentucky ...

Kentucky led Bucknell by 20 points midway through the first half, and the Wildcats rolled to another blowout win. Duke is up ...

Mark Pope hopes Kentucky basketball has a game with at least 100 rebounds one day. And UK's first-year coach knows how ...

Kentucky beat Wright State by 41 points in Mark Pope’s first game as the team’s head coach. Afterward, Pope talked about the ...

It remains to be seen how the Mark Pope ... scored by UK in a season-opener since a 108-58 win over Marist during the national championship season of 2011-12. But most notably, the 41-point ...

No. 23 Kentucky won its season opener on Monday, handily defeating Wright State 103-62. The Cats did a lot of things right in ...

Kentucky basketball drops the curtain Monday on the Mark Pope era ... right it honors you.” Can Pope’s first Kentucky team honor the game? It has the ingredients. For starters, it may be the most ...

It was a fun night in Rupp Arena as the Kentucky Wildcats raced past the Wright State Raiders to earn their first win of the season. It also marks the first win of his UK career for Mark Pope. In what ...