Mark Pope's Kentucky basketball team dispatched Oklahoma without Lamont Butler. If Pope wants Cats to thrive in NCAA tourney, he needs to rest guard.

Kentucky’s Lamont Butler has been dealing with a shoulder injury since mid-January. He has now re-aggravated that again in the first game of the postseason for the Wildcats. Following the 85-84 win for UK over Oklahoma in the second round of the SEC Tournament,

John Calipari was very open during his time in Lexington about how he did not care about the SEC Tournament. Clearly, this opinion traveled with Calipari to Arkansas as he doubled

Lamont Butler, Kentucky basketball's starting point guard, departed in the middle of the first half Thursday during UK's opening game in Nashville.

Mark Pope was a member of two special Rick Pitino-coached Kentucky teams in 1995 and 1996. The ’96 team went on to win the national title, but came up short in the SEC Tournament. That wasn’t the case in ’95 though,

Lamont Butler, who has missed six games over the past two months with a left shoulder injury, left Kentucky’s SEC Tournament opener with the same ailment.

At halftime, Mark Pope was asked about Butler’s injury and how it will impact the game plan moving forward. “We’ve dealt with this all season long. I got a resilient group.

Mark Pope hasn’t been shy about Kentucky‘s goal entering postseason play, starting with the SEC Tournament in Nashville. It’s the same message he shared during his introductory press conference in April,