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Kentucky men’s basketball coach Mark Pope reacts to March Madness loss
Following a 78-65 loss to Tennessee in the 2025 NCAA men’s basketball March Madness tournament, Kentucky coach Mark Pope expressed pride for his players. “We’ll be talking about these guys 10 years from now,” Pope.
Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope must replace seven seniors from the 2024-25 roster.The Wildcats have three high school prospects signed for the 2025-26 season: Jasper Johnson, Acaden Lewis and Malachi Moreno.Five players from last season could return, but none have made official announcements about their plans.
LEXINGTON — After assuming the reins of his alma mater, coach Mark Pope had to build the Kentucky basketball roster from scratch. The dozen scholarship players who were part of the 2023-24 team? All of them left. Some because their college eligibility was up. Others departed for the NBA draft or transfer portal.
Pope shouldn’t have quite as much heavy lifting heading into Year 2.
That’s because five players could return from last season.
The only certainties: The Wildcats have signed three high school prospects in the 2025 recruiting cycle.
And they must replace their seven-member senior class. Only one of them could still be playing college hoops during the 2025-26 campaign, though: Kerr Kriisa revealed March 31 he would enter the transfer portal.
But Pope and his staff already have one portal player in the fold for next season: Former Tulane wing Kam Williams committed March 28.
Bookmark this page as The Courier Journal tracks offseason news related to UK’s 2025-26 roster.
G Kerr Kriisa (6-foot-5, 185 pounds, Fifth-year Sr.): Kriisa appeared in UK’s first nine games of the 2024-25 season … and that was all she wrote for the Estonian. A foot injury suffered in the team’s overtime win over Gonzaga on Dec. 7 simply never healed to the point he was cleared to return to the floor. While he said March 31 he’d put his name into the transfer portal, 11 days before that, Kriisa pondered…
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Publish date : 2025-04-01 21:31:00
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