Photo by Brady Lesueur Utah Valley University men’s basketball coach Mark Pope is entering his second season with the program and it already has his fingerprints all over it. After heavy recruiting of transfers prior to his first season with the Wolverines, Coach Pope has a team that is set to run his system the […]
This week we’re joined by UVU’s men’s basketball coach Mark Pope and we do our first mail bag. https://soundcloud.com/uvu-review-sports/wolverine-sports-world-podcast-1013
Photo courtesy of UVU Athletics The Utah Valley University men’s basketball team spent Saturday afternoon, July 30, working out at the Emergency Services Building with the UVU Fire and Rescue instructors. As part of the workout, the players participated in the Candidate Physical Ability Test (CPAT) and the Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) Maze. The […]
PROVO, Utah—The Utah Valley University men’s basketball team spent Saturday afternoon putting their strength and conditioning to the test at the UVU Emergency Services Building with the Candidate Physical Ability Test (CPAT) Course and Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) Maze. Each course is a basic test required for candidates to complete before entering firefighter training […]
The Larry H. Miller Sports & Entertainment group, ownership group of the NBA’s Utah Jazz, announced on July 21 that they will be hosting an annual in-state men’s basketball invitational event at Vivint Smart Home Arena starting in December 2017, dubbed the Beehive Classic. The event is currently on a three-year contract running through 2019 […]
Photo courtesy of UVU Athletics OREM, Utah—The Utah Valley University athletic department broke ground on the NUVI Basketball Center on the south side of the UCCU Center on UVU’s Orem campus Wednesday morning. The ceremony marked the beginning of construction on a $3.5 million, privately funded training facility, which will house the UVU men and […]
As the winter sports season at UVU came to and end, 2015-16 turned out to be an exciting time for fans of the Wolverines. With an All-American finish, amazing upsets, and heartbreaking losses, the UVU men and women’s basketball teams, as well as the UVU wrestling team, gave fans a bit of everything. Mark Pope […]
Regular season champs across the country being left in the cold One of the biggest stereotypes of college basketball is that the regular season doesn’t matter and that no one pays any attention until March. Fans of the Austin Peay Governors just may agree with the former statement, as their team finished the regular season […]
Wolverines finish 12-18 in Mark Pope’s first season as Head Coach. The UVU men’s basketball team’s season ended Thursday with a loss to the Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos in the first round of the Western Athletic Conference Tournament at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. With nine seconds left in the game, the ball deflected out […]
LAS VEGAS—The Utah Valley University men’s basketball fell to the Missouri-Kansas City Kangaroos by a final of 80-78 in the first round of the WAC Tournament. The Wolverines had an opportunity to take the lead with a 3-pointer by Konner Frey with nine seconds to play, but the shot was off the mark and the […]