Mark Pope is changing the standard at Kentucky with an updated look in the practice facility……
Kentucky basketball, since Covid, hasn’t done much of anything in the NCAA Tournament, and now a new coach will try to change that. John Calipari is gone, and Mark Pope is now the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats.
Coach Calipari has always recruited by saying look how many players I have put in the NBA. Coach Pope has made it very clear that he will recruit by showing players the history of Kentucky basketball.
During his introductory press conference, Coach Pope continued to reiterate the point of hanging banners. Historically, the Kentucky basketball program has hung a ton of banners, but over the last few seasons, that standard hasn’t been met.
In the Kentucky practice facility for a while, there were a ton of pictures of former Kentucky players who are now in the NBA. According to Jimmy Dykes on KSR, those are gone, and all that hangs now is former championship banners.