Kentucky basketball already picked up a marquee victory on its three-game resume by defeating No. 6 Duke on Tuesday night in the Champions Classic. A win like that certainly boosts their confidence, but their mentality is to keep improving.

Mark Pope says the most important thing in the team’s mindset is to keep playing and figure out how and what they need to work on. Even after a win against Duke, there are obviously still things to work on, like any team. It all comes back to what Pope has been stressing to his team since the summer, which is to have humility and be a curious team.

“We’re just hungry to grow. You guys here. You’re already going to be so tired of me talking about humility and curiosity. I think that’s the most important thing. Go play again to find out who we are, and how we can improve, what we can do better and how we grow It’s a race with a team built the way it was meant to be, where each person is new, it’s just one. race since our first game on November 4th, hopefully. Final Four. We know we have to improve a lot, and time is limited, so it’s just a race to see how fast we can grow.

– Pope on using things to grow.

Pope says every game, especially very early in the season like right now, gives you a lot of data and evidence to improve certain things. The team certainly seems to be taking that to heart, and the improving mindset game after game could make the Wildcats dangerous.

Kentucky is already receiving a lot of national praise after its win over Duke, and that mindset will only continue to fuel them as the season goes on, garnering even more people’s attention throughout the season.