We all saw exactly what happened on the floor in Gainesville today. Kentucky turned the ball over, forced up bad shots, and got completely bullied by a physical Florida team.
But when Mark Pope sat down with Tom Leach for his postgame radio interview, he didn’t just point the finger at the players’ execution. He pointed the finger directly at himself.
Mark Pope doesn’t mind taking the blame
When Leach asked Pope about Florida’s three-big lineup and how their guards shot the ball, Pope was incredibly candid about his own game plan.
“I thought it was the difference in the game,” Pope admitted. “We took some terrible routes. We need to clean that up. I probably made mistakes on matchups… I felt like their backcut hurt us tonight.”…