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.

Louisville received a handful of recruiting sanctions, a $5,000 fine and will be on probation for two years, but its former coach Rick Pitino received no penalties. At Iona, Pitino doesn’t have ...

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 ...

On this episode of "The Pitino Chronicles", John Fanta and Rick Pitino discuss the importance and impact of basketball in New York City. Pitino talks about where his love of basketball came from ...

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 ...