Mark Pope and the Kentucky coaching staff have been pushing hard for five-star guard Jason Crowe Jr. for months now, but after a long recruiting battle, he chose the Missouri Tigers over the Wildcats.
This week was SEC Football Media Days, which means the start of the 2025 college football season is right around the corner. SEC media members were able to hear from all of the coaches and some players, then cast their votes for All-SEC Preseason Teams and conference rankings.
Mark Pope and his staff put a lot more focus this off-season into improving the defense and athleticism, something that was a clear weaknesses in Pope's first team in Lexington.
This offseason, Mark Pope is working to make sure that the things his 2024-25 team struggled with are not issues for this season's team. One of those big issues was rebounding the basketball.
Stoops’s right-hand man left for rival Louisville earlier this offseason. When Mark Stoops took the podium at SEC Media Days in Atlanta, the conversation immediately went to his thoughts on Vince Marrow departing Kentucky for the in-state rival Louisville Cardinals.
Kentucky's success has taken a dip the last few years, but especially so last year after a 4-8 season that ended Kentucky's eight-year bowl game streak.
One game that every Kentucky fan is marking down on their calendar is the upcoming matchup with the Louisville Cardinals. This used to be one of the best rivalries in college basketball, but struggles for Louisville have taken the spotlight off of this game.
Mark Pope dug far and wide in the transfer portal looking for players to give him an elite 2025-26 roster, and he found some great players that have the Kentucky Wildcats looking like one of the best teams in the nation.
The 2025-26 Kentucky basketball team took on the La Familia TBT team last night, and Mark Pope's team was able to come away with the victory. It sounds like two bright sports from this game were Otega Oweh and Jaland Lowe, as, according to multiple people, they looked like the two best players for the Wildcats.
Add another name to the list. The Kentucky Wildcats are right in the middle of their summer workouts, but that has not stopped the staff from hitting the road and recruiting during this July live period.
Add a name to the 2027 recruiting big board. Mark Pope and his staff are currently in the thick of recruiting the class of 2026, but that has not stopped them from creating some strong relationships with the rising junior class.
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Mark Pope is hoping to bring in a potential superstar. The recruitment world never stops as Mark Pope’s staff stays hard at work looking for future Kentucky Wildcats.
Last season, the SEC had a dominant year in college basketball, and many considered it to be the best conference in college basketball history. In a historic conference, one of the best players was Kentucky star Otega Oweh.
There is a lot of hype surrounding this Kentucky basketball team, and for good reason. Coach Pope did an excellent job putting together this roster and putting it together in a way that he has a team and not a bunch of star players who want to shoot the ball a lot.
One of the biggest wildcards on the 2025-26 Kentucky basketball team is Jasper Johnson. The five-star true freshman has a ton of upside, and his true freshman season can play out a lot of different ways.
Mark Pope has a lot of pressure riding on him and the Kentucky football program hwading into the 2025 season. Following a mediocre 7-6 season in 2023, where the Wildcats went just 3-5 in SEC play, Kentucky followed it up with a 4-8 (1-7 SEC) record last season.
To no surprise, Kentucky has made the list cut for one of their top targets in the class of 2026. According to On3's Joe Tipton, the Wildcats have been included in 2026 five-star guard Deron Rippey Jr.'s top 12 schools.
It's no secret that Mark Pope did an excellent job in year one as the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats. He took a team that he put together in just a few weeks and took this team to the Sweet 16.
The Kentucky Wildcats enter the 2025 season with a strong desire to bounce back from a disappointing 4-8 campaign in 2024, which marked their worst record since 2013.
The Suns have officially signed all three of their 2025 draft picks, according to NBA.com’s transaction log. That trio consists of No. 10 overall pick Khaman Maluach, No.
The Boston Celtics hold the 28th and 32nd picks in the 2025 NBA Draft. Here's why they should target this Kentucky sharpshooter with one of those picks.