BBN Welcomes Home Coach Mark Pope to Rupp Arena in Style!

A packed house of capacity crowd Kentucky Wildcats fans, or Big Blue Nation (BBN), welcome home the new head coach of Kentucky men's basketball, Mark Pope. This official designation of Coach Pope at Kentucky ushers in a new era of basketball in the Bluegrass State - a long awaited change BBN has been hungry for during at least the last five seasons.

Coach Pope said it best: "We are here to win banners. As we go through this journey, we're here to win banners in Nashville (SEC Tournament) because you guys turn out in Nashville like nobody else and that matters. And our job here and our assignment is here to win banners in the Final Four, national championships. That's our job."