Kentucky won 71.4 percent of its rivalry games in Pope’s debut season. In year two, the Wildcats face a more challenging ...

With Lamont Butler’s 3-pointer toward the end of UK’s loss to Tennessee in the NCAA Tournament, the 2024-25 Cats topped out at 341 made 3s for the season, one more than Rick Pitino’s 1992-93 ...

Mark Pope is hoping his 2025-26 UK team will attempt at least 30 3-pointers per game. Here's what the 10 Kentucky players who played college basketball last season did from behind the 3-point arc.

That former Wildcats is the team's current head coach, Mark Pope. On June 26th, 1996, Pope was selected by the Indiana Pacers with the 52nd pick of the second round.

After the selection show, Mark Pope went on ESPN Radio with Matt Jones and Myron Medcalf, where the two asked him about this potential Calipari vs. Pitino matchup. Here is what Coach Pope had to ...

"Coach Pope, he played for (Rick) Pitino, so he loved that hard stuff," Dioubate said. "He loved that tough stuff, you know, of being a dog and doing all the intangibles and stuff.

Closer to home, Kentucky Basketball was at its prime under Rick Pitino, coming off the 1996 national championship run. The 1996 NBA Draft class is considered one of the best ever, producing an NBA ...