Nate Ament shares positive thoughts on Mark Pope; is Louisville the favorite?

Mark Pope has been working endlessly with recruiting since being hired as the Kentucky Wildcats’ newest head basketball coach.

Pope has been on the road building a roster for 2024 and the program’s future.

Most recently, Pope and Kentucky made an offer to 5-star forward Nate Ament.

Pope has been in communication with the 6-foot-9 forward since BYU, and has continued that relationship in Lexington.

Ament spoke with Kentucky Sports Radio about his relationship with Pope and his staff saying, “They’re great people. They FaceTime me often, they talk to me a lot. Great sense of humor, great guys, it’s great getting to know them honestly. Mark Pope, him at BYU they were a great team, they shot a lot of threes. That’s kind of attractive to me as a player. He’s a great offensive mind, great coaching mind. It’s kinda hard not to like what he’s showing me right now.”

Ament is a big fan of the style of play Pope implements and believes he would fit in perfectly.

“I feel like I can play fast, be able to slow it down, be able to spread the ball, shoot the three, do whatever they need me to do,” he said.

The small forward has great shot-making abilities and is an incredibly attractive recruit because of his current skill set. That is why he is hearing from big-time schools like Kentucky, Virginia, Kansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, UConn, and many others.

However, don’t sleep on Kentucky’s in-state rival being a major player.

In a recent post at On3, Jamie Shaw made predictions for where several of the top 2025 recruits will land, and he picked the Louisville Cardinals to land Ament, though with only 20% confidence in the pick.

Shaw also added, “Virginia, Kentucky, Louisville, and Duke are the schools that sources tell me should be involved until the end.”

Ament currently has plenty of time to enjoy the recruitment world and has no intentions of making any decisions on his commitment anytime soon.

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