UK experts have made depth chart projections and expectations for Mark Pope’s Kentucky basketball team in 2024.

The Kentucky Wildcats’ first game as a team with new coach Mark Pope will be against Wright State. They beat Kentucky Wesleyan 123-52 to end their practice season. Not only that, but they easily beat Minnesota State 98–67, scoring an average of 110.5 points per game in those games. At 51 points per game, Kentucky’s practice wins were the biggest they had been since the 2016–17 season. Pope was a player on Kentucky’s 1996 national title team, but now that he is the new head coach, he will have to deal with more pressure than before.

Cats have been to four Final Fours and won the national title in 2012 under Calipari. Pope, on the other hand, has never won an NCAA Tournament game as a head coach. The AP poll puts Kentucky at No. 23 going into the season, seven spots behind the next best team in the SEC. This is the best place to find out about the latest Kentucky basketball news: CatsPause, which is an affiliate of 247Sports and covers Kentucky.

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After Calipari left, Pope had to pretty much start from scratch when it came to Kentucky’s team, but he was able to bring in a number of high-level transfers. One of them is Jaxson Robinson, a senior transfer guard who played for Pope at BYU. Early this week, Robinson was put on the short list for both the Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Men’s College Basketball Player of the Year and the Naismith Julius Erving Award. Robinson was the Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year for 2023–24. He scored 14.2 points per game for the Cougars.

He is likely to start on Monday night, along with guys like Lamont Butler, who transferred from San Diego State. Drexel moves Amari Williams, Oklahoma moves Otega Oweh, and Wake Forest moves Andrew Carr. Koby Brea from Dayton, Brandon Garrison from Oklahoma State, and Ansley Almonor from FDU were also called in by Pope. The Wildcats also have a lot of students who are expected to play, so Pope has to make a lot of choices as he fills out the depth chart. Use CatsPause to find out about the latest Kentucky basketball news.

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There are also a lot of bright young people on Kentucky’s basketball team, including a freshman who can make crazy 3-point shots. Join CatsPause to find out who that player is and get all the other insider roster news.