This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/kentucky as Mark Pope has called out one of Kentucky's players to take on a leadership role.

Last season, the expectations weren't that high for Coach Pope in year one, but he found a way to make the Sweet 16. If he is able to exceed expectations this year, it could lead to a national title.

Mark Pope has put together a basketball team that has enough talent to do something very special during the 2025-26 season. Some basketball teams have enough ta ...

Kentucky basketball historically is one of the best programs in college basketball, but over the last handful of years, the ...

Earlier this summer, Kentucky's Mark Pope directly coached some of the nation's top college basketball recruits.

Mark Pope is now the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats, and there are some big differences in the way he coaches compared ...

As a former player at Kentucky, Mark Pope knows the expectations that should be set when playing at Kentucky. The high ...

Malachi Moreno was a talented passer at Georgetown’s Great Crossing High School, but he’s expecting to take another leap in ...

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Kam Williams is doing exactly what Mark Pope is asking him. Five weeks into Kentucky men’s basketball’s summer practice, ...

Mark Pope has been known to speak in hyperbole from time to time, but he sure does make a good hype man. His latest ...

It took Mark Pope‘s first Kentucky team longer than hoped to reach the point where defense was no longer an issue. It wasn’t ...