It took 45 minutes for Mark Pope to make his way from the locker room to the podium to address Kentucky’s 83-66 loss to Michigan State, only to talk for five minutes with short-winded answers — clearly desperate to get out of what has become a House of Horrors for the Wildcats, losing by a combined 47 points in back-to-back years at Madison Square Garden. Then he had even less to say to Tom Leach during his postgame radio show, sharing one-liners and no-comment equivalents. He only did two segments overall in that one.
Then Jeff Goodman of The Field of 68 caught the second-year Kentucky coach outside the media room for a one-on-one, Pope keeping it brief once again, but revealing quite a bit in very few words.