Live updates from Rupp Arena: Kentucky basketball introduces Mark Pope as new head coach
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Kentucky introduces new basketball coach Mark Pope
Click below to read more coverage from the Lexington Herald-Leader and Kentucky.com about the introduction of former UK player Mark Pope as the new Kentucky men’s basketball coach.
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Follow along live Sunday afternoon as the Lexington Herald-Leader provides live updates from Rupp Arena, where the University of Kentucky is introducing new men’s basketball head coach Mark Pope.
The 4:30 p.m. press conference, moderated by the radio voice of the Wildcats, Tom Leach, was to be televised live beginning at 4:15 p.m. on WLEX-18. The event was open to the public.
Herald-Leader staff writers Ben Roberts (@BenRobertsHL), Cameron Drummond (@cdrummond97), John Clay (@johnclayiv), Mark Story (@markcstory) and Jon Hale (@JonHale_HL) are providing live updates from Rupp Arena, along with photographer Silas Walker (@silasiwalker).
Scroll down below to view live updates on Twitter.
Pope, a captain on Kentucky’s 1996 national championship team, was named to succeed John Calipari at the end of a whirlwind week in which Kentucky’s head coach of 15 seasons departed to become the new head Hog in Arkansas.
UK athletic director Mitch Barnhart zeroed in on Pope — the head coach at BYU for the past five seasons — Thursday after Baylor’s Scott Drew, UConn’s Dan Hurley and the Chicago Bulls’ Billy Donovan were all linked to the job.
Click here to view live updates on Twitter/X from Rupp Arena.
This story was originally published April 14, 2024 at 3:41 PM.
