Kentucky men’s basketball officially hired former Brigham Young Cougars head coach Mark Pope on Friday, finally finding a replacement after longtime head coach John Calipari recently accepted the position at Arkansas.
Pope, who is 51 years-old, has been at the helm of the Cougars since 2019 and gathered a 110-52 overall record in that time.
This season, in BYU’s first year in the Big 12 — arguably the toughest conference in the nation this season — Pope led his squad to a 23-11 record and empowered it to be the No. 6 seed in the NCAA Tournament, where it eventually fell to the No.