Rick Pitino was back in Rupp Arena and wearing blue and white to support new UK basketball coach Mark Pope at his first Big ...

Kentucky basketball is back! Mark Pope, Kenny Brooks and the Kentucky Wildcats celebrate the start of the season with Big ...

Rick Pitino told the Rupp Arena crowd that new Wildcats coach Mark Pope will carry Kentucky, which suffered two first-round ...

Both of UK's new head basketball coaches said the teams have been working hard and are ready to embrace this new time in UK ...

Kentucky basketball is picking up speed almost by the day now during this preseason. It started last Friday with a Big Blue Madness on a super modern lighted floor at Rupp Arena. Later in that same ...

Mark Pope is getting ready to begin his first season as the head coach at Kentucky, but before that, he was the captain of Kentucky's 1996 National Championship ...

LEXINGTON — Kentucky men's basketball officially begins a new chapter in its illustrious history Friday night, as the annual Big Blue Madness event will be held at Rupp Arena. It will be the ...

It's been seven years since the stripper scandal upended the men's basketball program, and Pitino hasn't been invited back ...

Those boos from the Kentucky faithful when Rick Pitino returned to college basketball to coach archrival Louisville? A thing of the past. Pitino returned ...

Pitino, now the head coach at St. John’s, wore Kentucky blue as he was re-introduced to the rowdy crowd at Rupp Arena on ...

It was a night to usher in a new era of Kentucky basketball at the annual Big Blue Madness event but also a night to pay respect to the past.

Toward the end of Big Blue Madness on Friday night — the first of the Mark Pope era — famous figures from UK basketball’s past poured onto the Rupp Arena court. Rick Pitino was one of them.