Mark Pope and the Kentucky basketball program have been the punch line in a lot of jokes around the college basketball world since the opening of the transfer portal and much were likely premature until now. The Wildcats have struggled closing the recruitments of several top players in the transfer portal but its whiff on top ranked high school recruit Tyran Stokes was the proper time to signal the alarm bells in Lexington. Even with Pope’s misses on key transfers like Donnie Freeman and Robert Wright, there was always the looming decision from Stokes and how things would be much more calm around the Wildcat program if he picked Kentucky. Now, that he’s a Jayhawk there’s legitimate concern about what Big Blue will be putting on the court next season. Kentucky made two recent additions from the portal in James Madison’s Justin McBride and Washington State’s Jerone Morton, but neither are a big-time prospect that other programs were clamoring for.…