Mark Pope will be the first to tell you he would not be coaching at all had he not transferred from Washington to become a Wildcat in 1994. He nearly didn’t anyway, enrolling in medical school at ...

No other Kentucky men’s basketball head coach spent three years in medical school ... teacher was a graduate school English professor. Still, when you attend a Pope press conference, be ...

Kentucky's Mark Pope famously dropped out of Columbia Medical School to pursue a career in coaching, so it should come as no surprise that he has a unquenchable thirst for knowledge. It's also not ...

Mark Pope just earned his 200th win as a college ... began his college coaching career at Georgia, famously leaving medical school at Columbia University in New York City for the opportunity ...