LEXINGTON — On the day Will Stein 's honeymoon began, Mark Pope 's honeymoon crashed out for good.

Kentucky 's new football coach received a thunderous standing ovation inside Rupp Arena after the first media timeout as the No. 18 Wildcats took on No. 16 North Carolina on Tuesday night in the ACC/SEC Challenge.

When the basketball coach pulled his headphones off and stood up from his postgame radio show more than three hours later, he received a sympathetic golf clap from the few dozen fans still remaining. Not many stayed past midnight in freezing temperatures to hear Pope try and explain what went wrong in a 67-64 loss to the Tar Heels.

A crowd of 20,029 didn't need postgame commentary to understand how Kentucky fell to 5-3 with the first nonconference home defeat of Pope's ten

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