Kentucky finished 24-12 in its first season under Pope, captain on Pitino’s 1996 national championship team at UK. While No.

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.

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

Rick Pitino was named Coach of the Year by the Associated Press today, an honor he shares with Auburn’s Bruce Pearl. After ...

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 ...

The Kentucky basketball team broke a 32-year-old school record on offense during its NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 loss to ...

I sit in Section 235 at Rupp Arena. Far corner, upper arena. Those are the media seats for Kentucky basketball home games. I’m not complaining. We can see the floor. We’re in the building.