Kentucky is looking to bounce back on Saturday against South Carolina after a blowout loss to Ole Miss, now losing four of their last 5 games. During this stret

The Wildcats are beating expectations and playing pretty ball in Year 1, but their new coach's link with the fan base is powering the vibes.

The Kentucky Wildcats' back-to-back ugly losses have the vocal portion of the fanbase quickly turning on first-year head coach Mark Pope.

Mark Pope has suffered his worst loss at Kentucky thus far. Pope’s No. 12-ranked Wildcats fell 89-79 at home to Arkansas Saturday afternoon — and it wasn’t an ordinary upset defeat. The contest marked Pope’s first meeting with former Kentucky head coach John Calipari, whom Pope replaced after Calipari left for Arkansas last April.

The Kentucky Wildcats are now in a very rough patch of this college basketball season, as they have lost four of their last five games. Now, all of the BBN and the college basketball world are asking the same question: Can this team respond?

Kentucky, which once marched confidently into a new era under Mark Pope, now finds itself at a dead end. The post Crisis Deepens for Mark Pope Even After Encouraging Kentucky Locker Room Reports appeared first on EssentiallySports.