Last season was Mark Pope’s first season in Lexington as the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats, and Big Blue Nation was quite pleased with the job he did. Coach Pope took the Wildcats to the Sweet 16 for the first time since the pandemic, and he did it with a banged-up team. Now, ahead of this season, he has one of the best rosters in all of college basketball, and it looks like his team is primed to do some damage. Coach Pope joined the Eyes On College Basketball Podcast with host Matt Norlander, and one of the questions he asked Coach Pope was to grade his first season at Kentucky. After Coach Pope gave himself a grade, he went on to explain what he wants to work on ahead of next season. Here is the grade Pope gave himself and how he plans to be better this season, “If I were to grade myself, I’d probably give myself a B or a B-. Clearly, we didn’t get our end result. Our job is to go win it, and we didn’t get that done. I felt like we did a lot of things really well, which I’m proud of but I feel like aRead More
Mark Pope grades his first season at Kentucky and explains how he plans to improve
