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Mark Pope

Mark Pope (born September 11, 1972)

Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: BYU Cougars
Current conference: Big 12 Conference
Utah Valley record: 77-56 (.579)
BYU record: 87-41 (.680)
Overall record: 164-97 (.628)

Career Accomplishments:

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

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