New Kentucky head coach Mark Pope has officially added his former boss to his debut Wildcat coaching staff.
Mark Fox, who spent last season as Georgetown’s Director of Student-Athlete Relations and NIL Partnerships, is set to join the Wildcats staff has been hired as an associate coach on Pope’s staff. He will join Cody Fueger, Jason Hart, and Alvin Brooks III on Pope’s bench.
“I can’t believe that I get to work with Mark Fox,” Pope said via press release. “Our relationship began at the University of Washington when I was a freshman and ever since then he has been an incredible mentor to me over the years. He even hired me for my first job.
“He is one of the most intelligent and most detailed-oriented coaches in all of college basketball. Mark has coached NBA draft picks. He’s coached teams in the NCAA Tournament. He’s recruited the best players in the country, and he’s dealt with every changing dynamic in college basketball over the last 25 years. Coach Fox is going to be a lynchpin in all that we do at the University of Kentucky. I’m glad to welcome Cindy and their family to Big Blue Nation.”
“This opportunity is extra special because, not only do I get to work at one of the most traditional basketball powers in the country, but I also get to work with a former player and a former staff member who is like family to me,” Fox added.
The 55-year-old Fox’s first coaching job came at Washington as an assistant under Lynn Nance from 1991-93. There, he coached Pope, who played his first two college seasons for the Huskies before transferring to Kentucky.
Fox then returned to his home state of Kansas to serve as an assistant coach under Tom Asbury at Kansas State from 1994-2000 and from 2000-04 worked under Trent Johnson as an assistant at Nevada.
