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Bearded Mark Pope is Landing BIG TIME Recruits! Who Does Kentucky Get Next? | Sources Say

Kentucky Sports Radio Podcast Network

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4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

What a couple of weeks it has been for Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats, starting with Malachi Moreno’s return to Lexington and followed by the high-profile additions of Milan Momcilovic out of the portal and Ryan Hampton in the high school ranks. It was a one, two, three punch of top returning talent, transfer talent and future talent to address now and later with some of the third-year coach’s lingering recruiting questions. Can he bring in top guys? Well, now you know. Sources Say was on vacation last week, joining Pope on the beach — but not accomplishing nearly as much, outside of drinking and eating a ton. We’re back and as okay as ever, though, ready to break down this massive stretch for the Wildcats and what’s to come with summer practice now just days away. Why is it so important for the entire 14-man roster to be on campus together, and, more specifically, healthy together? Is it the start of Dark Pope’s big turnaround, now with a beard to match the growing chip on his shoulder? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome in to the Source of Safe podcast, your go-to Kentucky basketball podcast on the KSR podcast network presented by our friends at BetMGM.

0:15.5

I'm your host Jack Pilgrim of Kentucky Sports Radio.

0:17.6

Very excited to be joined once again by the one and only Spencer Smith.

0:21.8

We got Sean Smith on the last one, took a little break, had a vacation to take care of, got

0:27.6

to hit reset, and now we are live from London with Spencer. Good day. How are we doing? What's the

0:37.0

deal out in London? Tell our viewers what you're

0:41.3

doing out there. Yeah, and to clarify, it's not London, Kentucky. I'm in London, England.

0:46.0

And it's lovely. It's 8 o'clock at night over here. I had to fly all the way to the UK just to talk

0:50.9

about UK, which is good. So first ever European sources say, I would

0:55.5

imagine, unless somebody beat me to it. But yeah, I'm excited to talk about the cats.

1:00.3

We're going to talk about Dark Pope in a minute and him growing out his beard and all that

1:03.9

fun stuff. He's proving all of the haters wrong on the recruiting trail and in the portal

1:09.5

and all that's fun stuff. We're proving the

1:10.9

haters wrong in the chat because they thought that we were going to be at least at minimum

1:14.6

five minutes late. But look at us, right on time. And guess what? It's 803 London time right

1:20.6

now. So we actually, we're doing a matinee back home in Kentucky, but also sticking to the

1:26.3

technical, like the actual schedule of eight o'clock

1:28.9

sources days on Tuesdays. So we kind of check both. We're on top of things here on this Tuesday,

1:36.5

just as Mark Pope has been on top of things over the last couple of weeks. My goodness gracious,

1:40.6

let's talk about this two-week stretch for him that starts with Malachi Moreno

1:45.0

announcing his withdrawal from the NBA draft. He returns to Kentucky. A couple days later,

1:52.2

we get the official withdrawal announcement from Mila Mam Chilovich announcing that he will

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