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Five coaches have received national coaching awards while the head coach of Kentucky: Rupp, Sutton, Pitino, Smith, and Calipari. Four Wildcat coaches: Rupp, Sutton, Pitino, and Calipari have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. [1] [2] Kentucky's current head coach is Mark Pope, who has held the position since April 12, 2024. [2]
On April 12, 2024, Kentucky hired BYU head coach Mark Pope for the same position in Lexington, [78] days after Calipari left for the vacant head coaching post at Arkansas. [79] Pope was a member of the Wildcats' 1995-1996 team that won the NCAA Tournament .
On April 12, 2024, Pope was hired to become the 23rd men's basketball head coach at Kentucky. [6] Pope's coaching debut at Kentucky was a 103–62 win against Wright State University. The score received some media attention for being a 41-point win, as #41 was the number of Pope when he was a player at Kentucky. [7] [8]
John Calipari has his 400th win as Kentucky men’s basketball head coach. ... and is only 27 away from cracking the top 10 all-time for NCAA Division I men’s basketball head coaches.
This category is for men's basketball coaches at the University of Kentucky. Pages in category "Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball coaches" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total.
John Vincent Calipari (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ p ær i /; born February 10, 1959) is an American basketball coach who is the head coach at the University of Arkansas. He was the head coach at the University of Kentucky from 2009 until the end of the 2023–2024 season, which he led to the school's eighth NCAA National Championship in 2012.
1 List of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball head coaches. Toggle List of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball head coaches subsection. 1.1 Comments. 1.2 Accessibility ...
Joe Beasman Hall (November 30, 1928 – January 15, 2022) was an American college basketball coach. He was the head coach at the University of Kentucky from 1972 to 1985, leading the Wildcats to a national championship in 1978. [1]