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Mark Pope is moving away from a cerebral approach to a more demanding one, similar to his mentor, Rick Pitino.

Player accountability has increased, with several players, including Brandon Garrison, being benched for lack of effort.

The team's slow start is partly attributed to a less experienced roster compared with last season's UK squad.

Kentucky basketball’s 6-4 start and losses to every major college team it has faced has taken coach Mark Pope back to a style that he thought he had left behind. It’s going to take an old-school approach to get the Wildcats playing how they need to play.

In Pope’s first few seasons as a head coach at Utah Valley, he coached with a harder edge. He was not as consoling on turnovers, not as encouraging after mistakes in execution

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