Kentucky faced off against #4 Alabama in their fifth game of the season against an AP top 15 team, and their third-straight at home, which marked the first time

Mark Pope will be the first to tell you he would not be coaching at all had he not transferred from Washington to become a Wildcat in 1994. He nearly didn’t anyway, enrolling in medical school at Columbia University as a Rhodes Scholar candidate before he quit to ‘fold laundry and hand out water’ as ‘the assistant to the operations guy’ under Mark

Good morning, friends. It’s a significant day in America as we honor and remember Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday in his name, celebrated on the third Monday of every year. King’s actual birthday was five days ago on January 15.