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When Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope stopped by St. Paul VI Catholic High School — located about 30 miles West of Washington, D.C. — this fall for a recruiting visit, he paid a major compliment to a rising class of 2026 prospect. Pope told Jordan Smith Jr. — a 6-foot-2 guard — that he’s never coached a player quite like Smith before. That remark spans the 15 years that Pope has been a college basketball coach across five different programs, including his head coaching stops at BYU and Utah Valley. “Mark Pope said that he wants to coach somebody like me because he’s never coached anybody like me before,” Smith told the Herald-Leader this month at a USA Basketball Junior National Team minicamp in Colorado. “I guess that they just probably think that I’m different than other players.” That comment from Pope carries plenty of weight, as was apparent on Smith’s face when discussing the interaction.
