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Rick Pitino always knew how to bring the flock home.

Said I was going to step away from Twitter for a few days, but I’m making an exception. A friend of mine asked if I had watched the video of Rick Pitino talking Mark Pope and what “Kentucky” means to John Pelphrey. Just like old times, Rick swoops down & steals the hearts of BBN.

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Oscar Combs Mark Pope Kentucky Men’s Basketball Jeff Sheppard Rick Pitino it's a lock. I got choked up watching all those former players walk off the bus. no one does tradition like kentucky.

Welcome home, Mark Pope #BBN

With John Calipari's Kentucky career officially coming to an end, I wrote this retrospective on Coach Cal’s legacy in Lexington and his impact throughout the Bluegrass

Edited by Nick Lazaroff for BBN Tonight

you can never really understand Kentucky basketball unless you experienced it in the Commonwealth.

Oscar Combs Mark Pope Kentucky Men’s Basketball Jeff Sheppard It was a joy almost 30 years ago to have Mark, Jeff & Walter come and speak to our young people at IMMANUEL BAPTIST -LEX about the Lord!

Loved those 1996 NCAA champs, from Antoine Walker to Cameron Mills and all those between them, seniors Tony Delk - Walter McCarty - Mark Pope plus Anthony Epps, Jeff Sheppard, Ron Mercer, Derek Anderson, Coach Rick Pitino and all the others. Would be neat to see them more often.

My heart bleeds blue Kentucky. Mitch knew that. maybe cautious calling me knew I was going to say yes before he even asked the question.

Thank you Mark Pope for shout out. So excited you are leading Kentucky Men’s Basketball. Such a breath of fresh air with enthusiasm & positivity going forward. My fondest memory of 1996 was not FF, but you and Jeff Sheppard spending time with youth groups at local churches. Love you.

our job as coaches, we get to be sheppards, Omage of Jeff and Reed. roomed with Jeff in college. obvious he loves the school from first hand experience.

Mark Pope pays homage to Rick Pitino, He changed my DNA as a human being. is anybody down for a game with St. John's? has interest in going to Maui.

My team at BYU made the second most threes in the country. we don't come in second at Kentucky. we were the fourth most assists in country. At Kentucky, we share the ball.

Mark Pope on the players: It will be one of trhe great honors of their lives to put on that jersey.

learned the game two weeks after he transferred in from washington. 'It's 11:30 p.m. in wildcats lodge knew I had to get in some extra work, walked across street to gym there were five guys in a full sweat already.''

Mark Pope says two of his daughters went into basement, came up with vintage 1996 Untouchable T-shirts. knows his audience.

our job is to win banners in nashville because you guiys turn out in nashville like nobody else and that matters. our job here is to win national championships.

kentucky has the most passionate fan base in college basketball. and it's not even close.