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The record books indicate Mark Pope hasn’t coached a game yet at Kentucky — his 71-point masterpiece against KWC didn’t count, unfortunately — but he’s already got the Wildcats rolling going into his first season in Lexington. There was plenty to love about the first exhibition win, just as there was in the Blue-White scrimmage, Big Blue Madness and Pro Day. Oh, and how about those two big-time in-state recruiting wins he picked up in Jasper Johnson and Malachi Moreno — two top-25 prospects nationally? Yeah, that was a fun stretch, too. Pope has nailed just about every move since he took the j…

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