but it sure sounds like Rick Pitino will indeed be back in Rupp Arena for the first time in a decade during season two of the Mark Pope era of Kentucky basketball. Pope planted the seeds for UK vs ...

Rick Pitino knows Mark Pope as well as anyone. The former Kentucky coach brought Pope to UK as a transfer from Washington. He made him captain of the UK’s 1996 national championship team.

Mark Pope is the perfect hire for Kentucky, according to Rick Pitino. The St. John's coach and Wildcats legend said Pope is "one of the premier young coaches in the game" and will lead the program ...

Fueger — the “offensive coordinator” behind new Kentucky coach Mark Pope’s approach ... but never higher than 68th overall. Rick Pitino’s first UK team — an undermanned bunch nicknamed ...

About four months before they coach against each other in one of the most heated rivalries in college sports for the first time, Mark Pope ... UK has won five of the six meetings since Pitino ...

LEXINGTON - In front of a sold-out Rupp Arena crowd, new Kentucky head coach Mark Pope made sure ... for his former UK coach and now St. John's head coach Rick Pitino. Check.

Smith was a National Coach of the Year with five regular season titles and four Elite Eights, racking up 100 wins faster than any coach in UK history not named Adolph ... between Smith replacing Rick ...

No bad blood boiled over Wednesday, when the teams' new head coaches, Pat Kelsey and Mark Pope, shared the stage ... he helped win as a player for Rick Pitino in 1996, to remind supporters who ...

Might a forward-looking Kentucky fan base, invested in the success of new top Cat Mark Pope ... “Traitor Rick” had returned to the commonwealth as a “turnCat” to lead UK’s intrastate ...

The winds of (conference) change are blowing again, and the Pac 12 has some new life breathed into it by adding four more teams. Which other schools will join the newly formed Pac-12? Gary Parrish ...