It's Kentucky basketball season. Read our preview coverage of Mark Pope's 2025-26 team

Ready for Kentucky basketball? Mark Pope's Wildcats begin their 2025-26 season this week. Get ready for the action with our coverage.

Kentucky basketball season preview: All about the Wildcats' drive for title No. 9

The expectations around this Kentucky basketball team were already high.They always are, of course. | Published October 25, 2025 | Read Full Story by Ben Roberts Mark Pope and Cody Fueger came to Kentucky last year with a reputation for relying on the numbers,

What's it like preparing for Kentucky basketball under Mark Pope? What SEC foes are saying

Kentucky basketball was a tough scout for opponents last season. Why? SEC coaches and players on what it's like facing Mark Pope's Kentucky Wildcats.

WKYT anchors’ daughter saves UK basketball players from running lines

So Lee K. Howard, WKYT’s sports director and anchor Kristen Kennedy’s husband, took their kids out of school to watch the team work at Rupp. Lee K said at the end of practice, Coach Pope picked two kids to come onto the floor to try to make a basket. If they did, the players wouldn’t have to run lines.

Catch up with the former Kentucky Wildcats who are still playing college basketball

Darbyshire spent three seasons at Kentucky as a walk-on, the final two seasons of Calipari’s coaching tenure and the first season of Pope’s. Darbyshire appeared in six games for the Wildcats and graduated from UK in May after only three years.
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Kentucky Women’s Basketball Ranks No. 20 in Preseason USA Today Coaches Poll

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The University of Kentucky women’s basketball team is ranked 20th in the Preseason USA Today Women’s Basketball Coaches Poll, it was announced by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association on Thursday.
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