Mark Pope recaps Kentucky's thrilling win over Florida in SEC Opener

[@Tuke1969]

Thank you Arkansas! I couldn’t be more happier as a fan!! We have a motivated, smart coach who is committed to living up to the standard at Kentucky!!

[@rangercorbin]

Amen.

[@donnathompson3959]

We finally got a coach

[@pmontyjaaaymes488]

You werent saying that after the Clemson or Ohio St game. See that's the problem with yall fans. Yall try to put down past coaches for the new on bc you think Pope doing something different. Lol. What you should be happy about is Florida missing all those damn free throws and Brea finally showing up. Coming from a UK fan. This team has problems and its going to bite them in the a** when it matters.

[@therealtravislaw5812]

@@pmontyjaaaymes488we absolutely need both them losses we prolly gone need a few more losses but this guy can coach win or lose

[@Southernly]

@@pmontyjaaaymes488 Trolling Ponytail, jealous, jealous 😬

[@faithfitnessandfatherhood]

Who wouldn’t want to play for this guy?!

[@jacksonwilliams1835]

I will never get used to calling a timeout on an inbound play. Then actually drawing up plays that WORK!!!! Thank you Coach Pope BBN has been dying for this kind of coaching.

[@Sunuvagunner312]

It’s better than a tall glass of lemonade on a hot day! Refreshing!

[@toddrion3998]

Isn't that the truth. Used to drive me nuts!

[@jerrybelcher9789]

Love to hear this coach! He can finish sentences lol! He’s so intelligent !

[@truck_it_23]

Im so proud to be from KY.

[@FC-cz6zd]

Every answer is perfect. Must be a blast for the press cause his answers actually answer the question with some substance.

[@pmontyjaaaymes488]

Who cares about answers to a question. Right answers dont equate to winning anything. Yall just get on here and drunk talk

[@Lakaiaahevf]

⁠​⁠@@pmontyjaaaymes488”who cares about answers to a question”- a man watching a press conference lol

[@bshayc79]

​@@pmontyjaaaymes488 and you just get on here to hate on every UK video. It's weird man...

[@FC-cz6zd]

@@bshayc79 yep, sure is...

[@redghost3170]

I was suspect on Carr, but that dude is a baller. He works the entire game. Go Cats!

[@Nonameforcelord44]

Bro he’s literally the reason we beat Florida and duke

[@TurdSlinger]

Tell me you missed alot of games without telling me you missed alot of games

[@ConnieFigueroa-u7s]

NO MATTER WHAT SINCE DAY 1 REAL TALK LET'S GO BBN 💙💙💙💪💯☝️

[@DeborahAnderson-d4v]

Love Coach Pope and our team❤❤❤❤

[@kelvisking6745]

What a great coach Who is humble and knows how to coach ### team pope Let’s go !!!

[@BlakeRogers-p1b]

Love this team love this coach love Kentucky

[@nathanfrisby3133]

Awesome job Coach Pope!

[@MrMashman93]

We still have some issues especially rebounding but we won and that’s all that matters. This was a high level game from two damn good teams. Enjoy this one BBN. GO CATS!!!

[@williamowsley9771]

Great fun! The joy is back in Lexington.

[@TraytonPowers-h2d]

Coach pope is the first coach since adolf rupp at kentucky to be 3-0 against top 10 teams in their first season

[@pmontyjaaaymes488]

Doesn't mean anything. Lmao.

[@georgedishon3173]

You must be a Louisville fan​@@pmontyjaaaymes488

[@PaperRouteBoogie]

Love this dude so much. Crazy how 8 months ago I was screaming how terrible of a hire this was. Boy was I wrong, and I am more than happy to admit it. We got the guy

[@claytonlanham2722]

Right there with you. So far so good though. We’ll see what happens in march. Get to sweet 16 and I’m happy.

[@TiggerLyOne]

So happy to have the college basketball vibe back in big blue country instead of 4 month NBA draft camp😂

[@05grandmarquis]

Great win guys

[@johnboy7064]

So much fun to watch these young men grow and to watch the love they share for the game and for each other. Hopefully they put more focus and effort into blocking out and rebounding

[@AllenGraham-h8l]

So happy for this bunch of kids and me to lol best thing ever happen was coach pope coming here this ladies and gentlemen is a coach

[@jessicamckinney7508]

I make a point to watch every post game interview with pope. So great to hear answers to the actual questions. Not like when cal would get a question about person A and the he would go on some tangent about person B. Coach pope gets it and if we dont win another game he has my vote dor coach of the year. Kentucky basketball means something again.

[@StariYTube1]

Unbreakables or Unbelievables 💙🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[@riverbender9898]

Thanks Coach and Cats!! Excelsior!!!

[@fhs2013cb]

Coach Pope is such a great coach and person I love his energy. This was a fantastic game 💙🤍🏀

[@Southernly]

Coach Pope is so controlled! Florida’s coach was out of control! Using Curses…MF’s, F-U, Get the F out there! Coach Pope has CLASS! Gators were chumps, coach and players needed refs to stay in the game.

[@pmontyjaaaymes488]

Ooh. Coaches cant curse? Lmao.

[@Southernly]

Coach Pope has no need to spank a ref on the bum like the FL coach did…nor does he need to scream MF’s at his players.

[@Sunuvagunner312]

@@pmontyjaaaymes488Yeah you big MAD😂😂😂

[@oakleyjack7600]

OTEGA-TRON !

[@noexcuseracing2021]

Cats have hope in pope 😎

[@Timothy0430]

Pope is special man!! This dude is the best!!

[@wooddoug1]

No more bullshit. No more smarmy attitude. It is so great to the listen to the post game comments of our humble sincere coach. He is twice the coach and twice the man of his predecessor.

[@Sunuvagunner312]

If you haven’t watched that guy’s presser, go watch 😂! I said, thank ya Lord for taking this curse away from Lexington!🙏

[@kingsimba1605]

Great win today for Kentucky. Mark Pope was exactly what bbn wanted and exactly who Rick Pitino said he was. Florida played well, one team had to win though and I’m happy to say it was the Cats!

[@DeborahAnderson-d4v]

So proud of Pope and our team ❤❤❤❤

[@cheynebutler6123]

Yay ❤ go CATS!!!

[@china_sickness7005]

Koby’s double shot fake 3 was so cold. We’ve been wondering how they can get him open for good looks, and I think that shows that part of it is going to have to be on his terms. We need that volume of shots from him. Florida has been great defensively, so it encourages me that we hit so many threes on such good competition

[@johnoliver2520]

Awesome game 💯

[@JillSzepanski]

Let's Go Wildcats!🎉

[@therealtravislaw5812]

We got a legit coach

[@BarbYork-w2h]

Our boys played helluva game today. Refs keep Florida in game at free throw line. But we over came some there bad calls. That 3 pointer foul on Lamont was ridiculous. He never touched him with 1 finger, replay showed it. Think we played our best game. GO BIG BLUE!!!!!! Have fun tonight, then let's get ready for the dogs!!!!

[@robmetcalfe8902]

Awesome win but coach work on rebounding

[@jamesw5353]

And FTs...what the heck!

[@robmetcalfe8902]

@ they shot over double than we did

[@georgedishon3173]

GO BIG BLUE

[@DebBaker-u9z]

This is Ky. BASKETBALL.!! 💙😽🐾🏀

[@JudyBofill]

Great win for uk

[@christopherredding5851]

If Calipari was coaching UK would have lost by 25 points, glad Mark got some talented experience difference of the 1 and done instead of talking about who is going to the unwatchanle NBA.

[@Redsfan1]

Pope reminds me of grand measter from game of thrones 😂

[@EdCatlett]

I would not want to play a drinking game where you do a shot every time coach says something is incredible or insane LOL

[@spinblackcircles]

Or special lol

[@cdkblu]

Fl hadn't really played anybody except for UNC before Ky. It will be interesting to see how they play vs Tenn.

[@JJGhostHunters]

For all the Florida fans that say we got all the calls at Rupp...not even close to being one sided for Kentucky. Look at all the fouls called on Kentucky for just playing defense. Foul on three point shot that wasn't a foul and not to mention out of bounds on Florida that resulted in them getting the ball back.

[@B-Eazy999]

Any Florida fan who says that is delusional tell me the last time a team shot 35 free throws and bitched they didn’t get any calls , we are the only blue blood team that doesn’t get the calls at home and haven’t for a few years idk what has happened , I guess refs let coaches talking shit about not getting calls at Rupp has influenced them to make sure opposing team can’t say nothing.

[@pmontyjaaaymes488]

It doesnt matter. The bad part is them letting Florida put up 100 points.

[@B-Eazy999]

@@pmontyjaaaymes488 Defense definitely needs work , they have good individual defenders but the fact Florida shot 55% from field and 35 free throws and they were still able to get the win is a plus because 99 times of 100 any team loses vs those numbers but I agree the defense is gonna have to get better but unlike last years team this team has capable defenders they jus aren’t defending they entire game as a team

[@Sunuvagunner312]

@@pmontyjaaaymes488yeah but they let us put up 106 and they’re or were a top defense…😀

[@Fool3SufferingFools]

3-0 against AP top 10 opponents… There’s one fact that’s not being mentioned in all the comparisons to Adolph Rupp. Rupp was in his 19th season at Kentucky when the AP poll began. Pope is doing this in his first year.

[@davidsnowden9531]

Koby, and to a lesser extent, Carr should not bother trying to block-out the big bodies - they're too skinny. Let Amari and Garrison fight the muscle bound, with Butler/Oweh crashing the boards (timing is everything). That's all I got . .. everything else was FABULOUS!

[@ky42]

💙

[@GregoryButler-u4p]

21,093 attendance

[@Nobody-n2m]

MARCH POPE

[@Syrin23]

Our defense is now ranked 92nd (!!) in kenpom. I don't understand how? We have so many great individual defenders. I will say this was one of the WORST officiated games I have EVER seen. Phantom fouls on EVERY Florida drive, especially in the last ten minutes of the game, and uncalled muggings on our end. That Florida big guy basically shoved Amari 30 feet and they called a foul on AMARI?!?! Pope needs to stop this pacifist shit on the sidelines and get in their f'ing faces. I am NOT exaggerating when I say the refs gave Florida 15 unearned points, and that goes right into our defensive rankings.

[@clintsmith7]

Look on the brightside,at least Cal will get a couple drafted and they can be mediocre again next year.😮

[@jameslakes5019]

Uk win go big blue

[@bassFischer600]

Reading the comments makes me smile. Winning, he will always be great. Look out if he loses….”What have you done for me lately?”

[@pmontyjaaaymes488]

Every time. They get a hard on with each win. Makes me sick. N im a UK fan.

[@bassFischer600]

@ me too

[@Sunuvagunner312]

@@pmontyjaaaymes488you’re goofy and weird!

[@spinblackcircles]

Every single fan base on earth gets mad when their team loses. Thats not noteworthy or special about UK The difference is the amount of weirdos that are negative about UK on the internet

[@bassFischer600]

@@spinblackcircles I’m not negative about Ky. I’m a fan but I don’t think we should be stupid about our coach. We will have our OSU games in spite of being Ky

[@pmontyjaaaymes488]

How tf we let Florida put up 100 points? That's bad.

[@zTHyperion]

How tf they let us put up 106? That's badd

[@spinblackcircles]

lol you ain’t a fan if you’re bitching about beating an undefeated top 6 team. Go to sleep

[@brianfeathers3670]

Despite Florida getting favored with the whistle (with a lot of phantom fouls) and bad rebounding we still beat a top 10 team. LFG!!! 😼😼😼

[@brandonbeachy8408]

And without Kerr!

[@DogFather69]

Changing defense??? Making adjustments??? After a decade of this being foreign for a coach to do I had almost forgotten these things were allowed.