Iowa State, Kentucky aim to be aggressor in March Madness game
Kentucky coach Mark Pope remembers facing Iowa State and T. J. Otzelberger when he coached at BYU.
He's expecting an all-out battle on Sunday.
ST. LOUIS — Mark Pope got to coach in the Big 12 for only one season, in 2023-24 when BYU moved to the power-conference level after previously spending more than a decade in the West Coast Conference. He then returned to his alma mater to become the head coach of blue-blooded Kentucky.
Even now, at a new school and in a new conference, those old battles with Iowa State have stuck with him. Pope's Wildcats will face off against the Cyclones in a second-round NCAA Tournament game at 1:45 p. m.
CT on March 22 (CBS). "The great thing about Iowa State, and I think what T. J.
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