Mark Pope - photo by Walter Cornett | WildcatWorld.com
Mark Pope is expected to be named an assistant men’s basketball coach at Wake Forest next week, according to multiple sources at the university. A six-year veteran of the NBA, Pope spent the 2009-10 season as the director of basketball operations at Georgia. He has no other experience in coaching. Pope was in his third year at Columbia University Medical School when he decided he wanted to coach basketball. He persuaded Coach Mark Fox of Georgia to hire him as the director of basketball operations, an administrative position.
