Jeremy Pope

Biography

With previous coaching stops at the Division-I level, prep schools both in the United States and internationally, the AAU circuit and as part of The Basketball Tournament (TBT), Jeremy Pope is in his third season as an assistant coach with UTA, after joining head coach KT Turner and the program in 2023-24. Pope, who started with UTA in April of 2023, joins the Mavericks after spending the previous two seasons (2021-23) as an assistant coach with the University of Portland in the always-competitive West Coast Conference (WCC). In advance of the 2023-24 season, Pope, 32, was named to Silver Wave Media's 75 Rising Stars: Impactful Men's Mid-Major Assistants list. Additionally, he was selected to participate in the 2023 Collegiate Coaching Consortium, hosted by the NABC & AthleticDirectorU. With Portland, Pope helped the Pilots to 19 wins in 2021-22, matching the program's 4th-most wins since it joined the D-I ranks in 1958. Additionally, he assisted in guiding Portland to its first postseason victory at the NCAA level when the Pilots defeated New Orleans in The Basketball Classic, a successor to the CIT (CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament). Prior to his stop in Arizona, Pope spent two seasons (2018-20) at Orangeville Prep in Ontario, Canada, as an assistant coach. Considered the top prep program in the country about an hour from Toronto, Orangeville graduated seven seniors who reached the D-I ranks during Pope's time on staff, went undefeated in all competitions and won th