Earlier today, the head coach of Kentucky Basketball was a guest on Kentucky Sports Radio. There’s a sentence I haven’t written in a while, so it was refreshing to hear from the man in charge of the Wildcats for the first time since the 2020-21 season. If you missed it, a replay of the conversation is available at the beginning of the second hour of today’s podcast. Mark Pope was initially scheduled to join the show last Friday but asked to postpone because he hopped on a last-minute flight out West to secure a commitment from Lamont Butler, the first of Kentucky’s three commitments in three d…