Mark Pope was short with Tom Leach in his postgame radio interview again, only replying with one-sentence answers to Leach’s questions about Kentucky’s loss at Alabama in the SEC opener. It seemed that Pope had no interest in explaining the defeat to Leach or the listening audience.
Asked what he told his team, Pope replied, “We talked about a lot of things.” What will they work to improve moving forward? “That’s a long list.”
Pope’s press conference was also brief. He and Otega Oweh, who scored a game-high 22 points in a loss, held a postgame Q&A in Coleman Coliseum that lasted shy of five minutes.