Last game out against Indiana, the Wildcats were as healthy as they've been since the Louisville game, welcoming Mo Dioubate back from an ankle injury that side

Mark Pope has been adamant about utilizing a deep bench. Whether that’s a winning strategy or not has come into question this season, but he elected to tighten things up down the stretch of a must-win game for Kentucky — and it ended up working in the Wildcats’ favor.

Gonzaga didn't just beat Kentucky in front of a pro-Wildcat crowd. It dominated from start to finish in one of the most impressive and shocking results of the season. Kentucky shot 5 of 31 from the floor (3 of 20 from the 3-point line) during the first half and didn't make its first field goal until nearly nine minutes into the game.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/kentucky as Mark Pope was proud of Brandon Garrison's response to his recent struggles.

At 0-4 vs. ranked opponents, the current Kentucky men’s basketball head man is not off to a positive start to his second season.

Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope accepts the boo birds that came with the Wildcats' 94-59 loss at home on Friday night.

The current plan is for Kentucky to have 12 playable Wildcats out of 14 scholarship pieces on the roster the rest of the way. Those remaining two have a path to redshirt — one confirmed, one still up in the air.

Kentucky's partnership with JMI has gotten a lot of pushback lately, and it's due to multiple factors. One, the basketball program has yet to sign anyone at all