Mark Pope clearly pressed the right buttons with his Wildcats before taking on No. 1 Purdue, Kentucky pulling off the 13-point victory to open exhibition play — quite the statement with the entire college basketball world watching. Tonight, we got to hear exactly what he told the team during his pregame speech, minutes before the blue and white dominated the Boilermakers in every possible category to win 78-65.
“We do this together, boys. The beauty of this deal is that we’re doing this together,” Pope told the team. “Fall in love with it.