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Coach Mark Pope’s goal for Kentucky basketball? Grabbing at least 100 rebounds in game
Kentucky coach Mark Pope on how team can find the joys in basketball
Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope discusses how players should care about something more than themselves to find the joys in basketball with their team.
LEXINGTON — Mark Pope is no stranger to setting outsized objectives. Some may go a step further, deeming said goals outlandish.
Pope, in his first season as Kentucky basketball’s coach, wants the team to average 35 3-point attempts per game. He frequently states other aims that are more analytically driven, throwing out numbers and abbreviations familiar only to those well versed in advanced basketball statistics. But as he pointed out during his introductory news conference in April, it comes with the territory at college basketball’s winningest program.
“Every coach in America at every other job in America stands up at the press conference and they try and moderate expectations,” he said. “We don’t do that here at Kentucky.”
He discovered his newest sky-high aspiration after Saturday’s 100-72 win over Bucknell.
The Wildcats pulled down 57 rebounds.
Pope seeks more. Far more.
“We are trying to get to 100,” he said.
He assumed it’s a figure that had never been reached in a game by a college basketball team. He was shocked to find out UK did just that six decades ago.
In a 102-59 victory over Ole Miss in Lexington on Feb. 8, 1964, then-Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp’s club collected an unfathomable 108 rebounds. More than 60 years later, it remains the single-game mark for any team in NCAA history — seemingly as unbreakable as any of the Wildcats’ numerous records.
“Oh, man. I’m usually really good at being hyperbolic,” Pope said. “Apparently, I wasn’t even close.
“Well, I was kind of being sarcastic about 100. But maybe that needs to be our goal.”
Reach Kentucky men’s basketball and football reporter Ryan Black at rblack@gannett.com and follow him on X at @RyanABlack.
Security camera video shows the moment a UPS cargo plane crashed on take-off in the US state of Kentucky, sparking a huge fireball. At least seven people were killed as the plane came down and hit a petroleum recycling plant.
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HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (WDKY) — A Kentucky woman got a grisly surprise just days before Halloween when a package containing human body parts showed up at her door.
On Thursday, Oct. 30, the Christian County Coroner Scott Daniel told Nexstar’s WDKY that the body parts she’d received by mistake the previous day were from a cadaver and meant for surgical training, not transplant.
“We never know what kind of call we’re going to get, they’re all over the place, but last night was a little different,” Daniel told radio station WKDZ the following day. “We had a resident here in Hopkinsville who opened the box – it was supposed to be some urgent medical supplies – and when she opened the box she found human arms and fingers.”
The coroner said the woman was “obviously a little shook” after opening the cardboard box, which contained four fingers and two arms, packed in plastic ice packs.
Daniel said the woman called deputies with the Christian County Sheriff’s Office, who responded and notified the coroner’s office.
Officials reportedly took the cadaver parts to the morgue on Wednesday morning and contacted the carrier, making arrangements to get them to their proper destination.
Daniel said the parts were shipped from Nashville and wound up at the wrong address after a courier mix-up, adding that Hopkinsville officials ensured that the woman ultimately received the supplies she was waiting for, according to the Lexington-Herald Leader.
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