Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope learned from last season. Here’s what he’s changing

Uzziah Dagi3 weeks agoLast Updated: August 1, 2025

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More than midway through the eight weeks of summer workouts permitted by the NCAA, Mark Pope admitted he was “a little twisted up” with the way he’d gone about structuring the allocated time. Now entering his second season as Kentucky basketball’s coach, Pope learned from his first year on the job.

Where this season’s team lacks intricate knowledge of, say, reads and progressions in Pope’s transition offense strategies, it’s well ahead in defensive fundamentals and tenacity

One of the things we have to do is our defensive field-goal percentage has got to be better next year,” Pope said. “And so we’re dedicated to having a legal contest on every single field-goal attempt — every single one. And so there’s a lot of things that go into that, but that’s a major point of emphasis for us.”

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