Mark Pope isn’t pretending that this season has been anything but a near disaster for the Kentucky men’s basketball program.
Isaac Trotter of CBS Sports — like most of the Big Blue Nation — feels the same way. Earlier this week, Trotter handed out mid-year report card grades for every high-major coaching change that happened during the 2024 offseason. Pope was one of many new hires by high-major schools that offseason, guys who are now in year two as the head coach at their current schools.
Pope was the only coach to receive a D grade through the first half of the 2025-26 campaign.