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 ...

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. The selection committee delivered a ...

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 ...

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

Mark Pope's Kentucky secured a No. 3 seed for the 2025 NCAA Tournament. However, he appeared to be more thrilled at the possibility of two former Wildcats coaches, John Calipari and Rick Pitino ...

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

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 ...

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.