University of Texas Arlington Athletics

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 first season as an assistant coach with UTA 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).
 
In 2022-23, Pope was on staff when Portland defeated three-time national champion Villanova by double figures, led then-#1 North Carolina for most of the 2nd half in a narrow loss and dropped a controversial one-point contest against a Michigan State team that reached the Sweet Sixteen.
 
Prior to joining the Pilots, Pope served as an assistant coach at Arizona Compass Prep (AZCP), one of the elite basketball prep schools in the nation. Pope was an assistant coach during the 2020-21 season and worked with a team that graduated six players who moved on to D-I schools.
 
AZCP went undefeated in league play, won a Grind Session Championship and qualified for the 2021 Geico High School Nationals as the overall No. 4 seed. The team dropped a 51-49 decision to eventual national champion Montverde Academy in the semifinals to finish the year with a 30-2 record. The only two losses came against Montverde, with the first an overtime defeat on the road.
 
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 the Ontario Scholastic Basketball Association Championship. Notable alumni from Orangeville include current NBA players Jamal Murray, Luguentz Dort and Thon Maker.
 
Pope also was an assistant coach for the NIKE Bounce Basketball Clubs U-17 and U-16 EYBL teams during his tenure in Canada.
 
In the summer of 2021, Pope was the head coach of Boeheim’s Army in the The Basketball Tournament (TBT), which the Syracuse-backed team won. TBT features 64 teams of top professional, college alumni and international players competing in a single-elimination 5-on-5 format with a winner-take-all $1 million prize which was evenly split among all team members.
 
A graduate manager at Washington under head coach Mike Hopkins – a former Syracuse assistant – in 2017, Pope helped with numerous facets of the program, including on-court skill development, scouting, film breakdown, scheduling and student-athlete management. The Huskies finished the 2017-18 season with 21 wins, qualified for the National Invitational Tournament (NIT) and two players from the team played in the NBA.
 
Pope’s coaching journey began as a volunteer assistant at his alma mater, Mayfair High School, in Los Angeles in 2013. He also coached AAU for the Los Angeles Rockfish for two years following his collegiate basketball playing career.
 
After playing two seasons at Cerritos College, Pope had a brief stop at D-I San Jose State and then concluded his playing career with one year at Biola University.
 
He earned his undergraduate degree from Cal State LA in 2017, and secured a Master of Education in Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership and Coaching from Washington in 2018.