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College basketball coaches believe Mark Pope was a home run hire for Kentucky

Is Mark Pope going to end up being a good hire for Kentucky?

Kentucky hired Mark Pope this offseason to be the Wildcat’s new head coach, and so far, it seems to have been a home run hire.

Pope has put together an elite team full of veteran players that should be able to make a run in the NCAA Tournament. Pope also just landed his first recruit in the 2025 class, Malachi Moreno, who is the number one center in the class.

While at first, some Kentucky fans might have questioned the hire, those fans have turned around quickly, and things are looking up in Lexington.

Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander of CBS Sports asked 100 Division 1 coaches their thoughts on the new college basketball hires, and these coaches seem high on what Coach Pope brings to Lexington.

Here are two quotes Parrish and Norlander received from current D1 head basketball coaches about Kentucky’s hire of Pope.

“He’s not a guy that’s looking for a microphone every 10 minutes to state his case.

He doesn’t make a lot of excuses. Basketball is what drives him. Underrated recruiter, very good talent evaluator and knows how to stay ahead of the curve offensively and be impossible to guard in space.

Uses his personnel like a surgeon. Everyone on the floor is really good at something and they’ll buy into that role.”