St. John's head coach Rick Pitino doesn't want to get in a war of words with John Calipari, but recent comments from Kentucky coach Mark Pope suggest otherwise.

Kentucky finished 24-12 in its first season under Pope, captain on Pitino’s 1996 national championship team at UK. While No. 2 seed St. John’s lost to John Calipari and Arkansas in the second round of ...

SAN ANTONIO -- After saying he couldn’t envision a return to Louisville -- the school that fired him in 2017 -- Rick Pitino ...

Louisville basketball is finalizing a home-and-home series with St. John's, starting with a game at Madison Square Garden in ...

Pope won the national title in 1996 when he was a player under former coach Rick Pitino, who is now the St. John's Red Storm coach. During a 2024 segment of the "Field of 68: After Dark," Mark ...

After sitting out the 1993-94 season due to the NCAA's transfer rules, Pope made his debut in 1994-95. Across the final two ...

Everyone has their own style. Pope’s style is purely Pope. He admits that when he started out coaching he tried to emulate his college coach, Rick Pitino. Didn’t work. It was Rick Pitino, but it ...

John's takes down Omaha, there will be a John Calipari vs. Rick Pitino matchup in the Round of 32. After the selection show, Mark Pope went on ESPN Radio with Matt Jones and Myron Medcalf ...

Kentucky basketball fans can vote for which UK coach had the best debut season. How does Mark Pope stack up? The poll closes ...