Provo • It has been more than 20 years since Mark Pope won a national championship with the University of Kentucky, but he still remembers every second of it. It’s in his mind forever.
He remembers what happened before the game, the whole game and what happened after. Those are the good moments, he said.
Late Wednesday night, the first-year BYU head coach wanted to share that moment with his team and the 2,737 people that showed up at the Marriott Center for the Cougars’ Midnight Madness festivities.
Pope created a West Coast Conference championship-game scenario for the fans, then gave the crowd an enthusiastic play-by-play of the Cougars coming back from a seven-point deficit with 20 seconds left.