MILWAUKEE — Bring it on, says Mark Pope. Bring all the pressure. Bring all the critics. Bring all the controversies. Bring all the tough times and the tough matchups and the tough situations ...

I’ve been around. Yellers, screamers and intimidators dot the coaching landscape. Pope’s predecessor, John Calipari, often spent as much time coaching officials as he did his team. If not more.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The bad news: Kentucky’s 99-70 loss to Alabama on Friday night was the Wildcats’ worst loss, by margin, in the history of the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament. The good ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — As the old saying goes, you’re either getting better or you’re getting worse. With Kentucky opening play in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament on Friday versus Troy in ...

He did a ”Tonight Show” skit with Jimmy Fallon. His social media accounts are cooking. His St. John’s Red Storm won the Big East regular season basketball championship. Then it won the Big ...

Birmingham police on Friday issued a Critical Missing Alert for John Clay, who was last seen Thursday near the 1200 block of 14th Avenue South. Police officials said he suffers from a condition ...

I’ve been around. Yellers, screamers and intimidators dot the coaching landscape. Pope’s predecessor, John Calipari, often spent as much time coaching officials as he did his team. If not more.

Kentucky basketball opens NCAA Tournament play for the first time with Mark Pope as coach when the Wildcats take on Sun Belt Tournament champion Troy on Friday night at Fiserv Forum. Kentucky is ...

Since Mark Pope had never won an NCAA Tournament game as a head coach, it stood to reason that the Kentucky coach would get a how-does-it-feel question early in his postgame press conference ...

Illinois improved to 22-12 with its 86-73 win against Xavier in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday. The Illini are 16th in the KenPom adjusted overall efficiency rankings. Coach Brad ...

It was the second NCAA Tournament meeting between John Calipari at Kentucky and Rick Pitino at Louisville. Cal had beaten Pitino in the 2012 Final Four. This time, freshman Julius Randle scored 15 ...