Q&A: Mark Pope after Kentucky’s 100-72 win over Bucknell

On his team’s rebounding … I’m really proud of our guys. As a coach it’s a blessing, I’m telling you, it’s a gift as a coach to have guys that are curious and guys that are humble and guys that want to get better. We don’t use the words curious very often and we don’t talk about humility very often. But we have a ton of that on our team. For these guys to respond to a challenge. We have been kind of sitting on this for maybe 10 days. Like ahh, we are just not getting to where we need to get on the glass. And for these guys to come up and put up almost 60 rebounds today is incredibly gratifying as a coach. It’s a really important step for us as a team. And we are trying to get to 100. Has there ever been a game with 100 rebounds?

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