Mark Pope did his Best Taylor Swift Imitation

Mark Pope wanted to keep the media, fans guessing about what he meant Thursday. (Vicky Graff Photo)

Mark Pope indicated at his press conference Thursday that something out of the ordinary happened with his team Tuesday before the Cats went out and lost at rival Louisville.

He would not elaborate on the incident then and would not again after Friday’s win over Eastern Illinois when asked about it again.

However, Pope’s answer/explanation was so Pope that I thought I would sharer the entire answer and let you draw your own conclusion:

“We were walking in and (UK basketball media relations director) Deb (Moore) said, ‘They might ask you about that saying yesterday.  You guys know I’m a big Taylor Swift fan and I just like to leak out these little things that keep everybody wondering and guessing.  There’s really not much to it.  At some point, I will tell you the story,” Pope said.

“But I would like you guys to prognosticate on that for a couple of more days.  It really is nothing.  It’s just something about the emotional level of our team and I am still, like I said, I want to tease this out and let it play for a few more days but when we talk about it, it’s not going to be very interesting.  It was just the way that we felt as a team and how we responded. 

“Thanks for letting that float around for a while. It’s fun, right? It gives you something to write about and guess  tweet about. I’m going to give you something else today, I’ve got to figure out what it is. 

“By the way, the comment was very genuine, it was super genuine.  I’m genuinely trying to, you know, I’m genuinely trying to learn this group for sure.  So it wasn’t nonsense.”