- Mark Pope was officially announced as the new head basketball coach at Kentucky on Friday morning. It appears as though (at least) one of his former players is set to follow him from Provo to Lexington.
The Wildcats are in position to poach two BYU Cougars from the transfer portal.
One seems like a lock. The other is going to take some work— and NIL money.
Aly Khalifa, a former three-star recruit from Australia, averaged about 24 minutes per game in each of the last three years. He scored around eight points per game with 4.7 rebounds and 3.4 assists during that span.
The 6-foot-11 center played his first two years at Charlotte and last year at BYU.