Austin Pope becoming a member of UK Basketball workers as a graduate assistant

The Kentucky Wildcats will start a brand new period in Lexington this upcoming season with Mark Pope taking on this system.

Pope has been working to assemble a roster and training workers to tip off the brand new period in just a few months.

Pope has efficiently put collectively a powerful teaching workers by touchdown names like Alvin Brooks III, Cody Fueger, Jason Hart, Mikhail McLean, and Mark Fox.

Now, Pope has employed a brand new graduate assistant in former Chaminade level guard Austin Pope.

Pope posted on social media in regards to the information about becoming a member of Mark Pope’s workers. His Twitter profile reads, “Graduate assistant for @kentuckymbb.”

As a school participant, the California native was a First-Workforce All-Pacific West honoree as a senior within the 2017-18 season after averaging 14.8 factors, 4.5 assists, and 1.2 steals. He led the PacWest Convention and ranked twenty seventh nationally with an assist-to-turnover ratio of two.7.

After his faculty profession, Pope performed professionally in Lithuania, Sweden, Denmark, Serbia, and within the NBA G-League. He’s since had highschool teaching stints with Viewpoint Faculty and Burroughs Excessive Faculty. He was additionally an AAU coach for BTI Basketball Membership.

Pope will now look to make his mark within the faculty ranks whereas serving to to usher in a brand new period of Kentucky Basketball.

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