Kentucky basketball has now lost three of its last five games. Head coach Mark Pope is pushing his team to be better.

The dominance of the SEC over the rest of college basketball has been well-documented this season. This week offered perhaps the best example of how much things have changed.

Mark Pope’s Kentucky Wildcats don’t play any more defense than John Calipari’s final team that couldn’t guard a Division II transfer last March.

After Calipari's exit, Kentucky wasted no time and hired BYU head coach Mark Pope, who also played college basketball at ...

Mark Pope's struggling Kentucky team got a big lift on Saturday from a few players who he was worried would be missing yet ...

Nate Oats and Alabama head home in rapid repair mode with another Top 25 SEC opponent up next and the Crimson Tide trying to avoid a three-game losing streak.

Mark Pope’s Kentucky Wildcats don’t play any ... Louisville in December and Florida in January. Since then, other teams improved, Kentucky stalled, and its porous defense repeatedly got ...

Kentucky basketball head coach Mark Pope spoke about the loss to Ole Miss where they scored the most points ever in the rivalry.

They also earned SEC wins over No. 3 Florida, No. 22 Mississippi State and No. 8 Texas A&M last month. So, Mark Pope's squad clearly has the potential to make a late-season surge and be a factor ...

Photo: Imagn Mark Pope and the 15th-ranked Kentucky Wildcats ... then-No. 7 Gonzaga, then-No. 6 Florida, then-No. 14 Mississippi State, then-No. 11 Texas A&M and then-No. 8 Tennessee.

It’s Vanderbilt vs. Kentucky in an SEC college basketball game. Follow for live score updates, game highlights from Rupp ...