Mark Pope understood the assignment. At the Sunday press conference introducing him as Kentucky‘s next head basketball coach, Pope said everything the Big Blue Nation wanted to hear, telling Kentucky fans his job is to “win banners” in Lexington. The Big Blue Nation understood its assignment, too. Tasked with showing public fan support for the new head coach, the BBN did its job and more, packing Rupp Arena for the open-invite event. On Masters Sunday, fans flooded downtown Lexington, blowing away UK Athletics’s expectations of filling a handful of sections on one side of the arena. With a big…