BREAKING: Kentucky Basketball Locks in Head Coach Mark Pope with Groundbreaking 8-Year, $95 Million Contract Featuring $3 Million Annual Retention Bonus Through 2035….👇👇👇 what do you think?
The Kentucky men’s basketball team has won an NCAA Tournament game for just the second time since 2019. After defeating No. 14 seed Troy 76-57 in Milwaukee on Friday night, the No. 3 seed Wildcats cruised into the second round of the national tournament.
The Cats were led by junior guard Otega Oweh, who stuffed the stat sheet with 20 points, eight rebounds and six assists.
Against Troy, Kentucky also got 13 points from each of Koby Brea, Andrew Carr and Brandon Garrison.
Pope’s team also put together a stellar defensive effort in the win. The 57 points that UK allowed to Troy — which won the Sun Belt Conference Tournament to earn that league’s automatic bid to March Madness — was the second-best defensive effort of the season for Kentucky. This also marked the fewest points allowed by the Cats since the calendar flipped to 2025.
