Mark Pope (born September 11, 1972)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: BYU Cougars
Current conference: West Coast Conference (WCC)
Utah Valley record: 77-56 (.579)
BYU record: 87-41 (.680)
Overall record: 164-97 (.628)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 1 (2021)
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2022)
- CBI Appearances: 3 (2017, 2018, 2019)
- WCC Regular Season Champion: 0
- WCC Tournament Champion: 0
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
2019-present | BYU |
2015-2019 | Utah Valley |
2011-2015 | BYU (asst) |
2010-2011 | Wake Forest (asst) |
2009-2010 | Georgia (asst) |
Mark Pope Facts
- Mark Edward Pope
- Born September 11, 1972
- Hometown: Bellevue, Washington
- Alma Mater: University of Kentucky (BA, 1996)
- Started playing career at Washington, playing two seasons for head coach Lynn Nance, before transferring to Kentucky in 1993
- After sitting out a year, Pope played his final two seasons under Rick Pitino; was part of the 1996 NCAA title team
- Drafted in second round of the 1996 NBA Draft; played four seasons overseas before joining the Milwaukee Bucks in 2000
- Played a total of four seasons in the NBA with the Bucks and Denver Nuggets
- Started medical school at Columbia in 2006 after retiring from playing, but left in 2009 to start his coaching career
- Spent one year as an assistant under Mark Fox at Georgia and then one year under Jeff Bzdelik at Wake Forest
- Joined Dave Rose‘s staff at BYU in 2011, working an as assistant with the Cougars for four seasons
- Hired in March 2015 to be the new head coach at Utah Valley
- Led the Wolverines to the CBI three times in his four years at UVU
- Left in April 2018 to return to BYU as the Cougars’ new head coach
- Won 20+ games in each of his first three seasons, leading the program back to the NCAA Tournament in 2021
- Along with his wife, Lee Anne, has four daughters; wife’s father was the late Lynn Archibald, head coach at Utah for six seasons
Mark Pope Coaching Tree
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