The Big Blue Nation wanted a modern offense out of Mark Pope and that’s exactly what they got — through one preseason game, at least. Kentucky shot the ball about as well as anyone could have asked for in the first exhibition of the 2024-25 season, a dominant 71-point win against an overmatched Kentucky Wesleyan group. The Wildcats shot 79 percent from two-point range (27-34) and 50 percent from beyond the arc (21-42). The result was 123 total points on 48 made shots, which came off 32 assists to just five turnovers. UK scored on just a hair under 70 percent of its total possessions. We call t…