{"id":728544,"date":"2026-05-08T02:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/728544\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T02:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T02:24:20","slug":"kentucky-basketball-had-planned-a-summer-trip-to-jerusalem-mark-pope-asks-bbn-for-new-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/728544\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Basketball had planned a summer trip to Jerusalem: Mark Pope asks BBN for new suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kentucky Wildcats basketball head coach Mark Pope took to social media this week to ask Big Blue Nation for feedback and questions as the offseason continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Early Thursday evening, Pope posted Round 2 of the few answers he had responded to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pope answered six questions, from a variety of topics, from what he ate to how he evaluates prospects. One of the most important questions that the Wildcats\u2019 head coach answered was regarding a potential summer tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pope revealed the team was supposed to go on a summer tour to Jerusalem, but the ongoing conflict has put the trip on hold. The team is still taking suggestions on where to go as the summer unfolds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe had a trip scheduled to Jerusalem. It got canceled due to the conflict,\u201d said Pope. \u201cSo, now we\u2019re looking for another venue, and I\u2019m taking suggestions. Hit me up, BBN.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In case you missed it, the NCAA adopted a proposal that will allow schools to take summer tours every year now, so no more only getting one of these every four years. Even if it ends up being somewhere close by, it would be a great experience for this team to get some summer exhibition games in, especially with how big of a roster overhaul the Cats are going through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pope said he\u2019ll be back on social media answering a few more questions on Friday. The caption included that he\u2019ll be discussing the \u201cGM topic,\u201d which has flooded the comments on Pope\u2019s original post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kentucky Wildcats basketball head coach Mark Pope took to social media this week to ask Big Blue Nation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,38124,244],"class_list":["post-728544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball-news","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116536584700646618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}