Kentucky Basketball beat Eastern Illinois 99-53 on Friday night, and afterward, Mark Pope met with the media to break down the win, the growth he still wants to see, and a few storylines that have already taken on a life of their own this week.
Pope called it a “functional game” for his team and said the Cats are still in the painful-but-beautiful part of the early-season learning curve. He talked about balanced scoring against Eastern Illinois (10 players in the scoring column, five in double figures), and why that impressed him as the group figures itself out.