Take a breath, Kentucky basketball fans. A whirlwind week of roster activity for the Wildcats has come and gone. Mark Pope and his coaching staff are nearly done with putting together the 2025-26 UK basketball roster, and that group of scholarship players projects to have a bit of something for everyone.

You know that early victory lap Louisville took for those three portal commitments in Ryan Conwell, Adrian Wooley and Isaac McKneely, the one that had Card Nation talking a big game about Kentucky ‘coping with Pope’ — despite losing 10 of the last 12 head-to-head battles and not winning a tournament game since 2017?