Top 25
13-35
- Games
- 48
- Win rate
- 27.1%
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Coach Profile
Mark Stoops
2013-2025 • Kentucky
One defining program at Kentucky.
Mark Stoops coached 13 seasons, won 51.3%, and posted an average SRS of 3.2. Best season: 2018 Kentucky. The profile was defense-first with a mostly steady profile. One primary stint defined the run.
- Career record
- 77-73
- Career win rate
- 51.3%
- Average SRS
- 3.2
- Peak SRS
- 14.7
Career Dossier
One glance at the full arc.
The profile below keeps the headline numbers visible, then moves into tenure shape, school impact, and full season detail.
- Seasons coached
- 13
- Career span
- 13 years
- Best finish
- #18
- Consistency
- 73.6
Primary school anchor
Kentucky
Defense-First profile with 1 program stop and a peak score of 72.8.
Career Arc
Track how the coach's season-to-season performance changed over time, where the peak landed, and where each school stint appears.
Focus on where peaks separate, where floors hold, and how the shape of each career changed over time.
Mark Stoops
EliteStrongAverageLean
2013Actual season year • SRS range -6.4 to 14.72025
Active comparison point
Mark Stoops • 2018
2018 Kentucky
Best seasonBiggest improvement10-3 • SRS 14.7 • SP Overall 13.1
Win %
76.9%
YoY SRS
+14.2
SP Off / Def
29.5 / 16.3
Finish
Unranked
Comparison context
Focus a point to inspect how it stacks up against the rest of the field.
Ranked opponent record
Track career record against ranked opponents with switchable poll source and ranking timing.
Using AP Top 25 rankings at the time of each game; week-one games use the week-one ranking release when available.
Top 10
3-21
- Games
- 24
- Win rate
- 12.5%
Top 5
0-11
- Games
- 11
- Win rate
- 0.0%
View ranked game results48
Tenure map
Each stint expands by seasons coached. Deeper color signals a stronger average SRS over that stretch.
Length = seasons coachedDeeper color = stronger stint
Kentucky
2013-2025 • 13 seasons
Avg SRS 3.2 • Win % 51.3%
- Longest tenure
- Kentucky • 13 seasons
- Best tenure
- Kentucky • 3.2 SRS
- Best tenure win rate
- Kentucky • 51.3%
Style and Strength Profile
Compare strength, identity, steadiness, and ceiling through normalized bars with raw SP and SRS context underneath.
These bars are normalized against the full coach dataset. Raw SP and SRS values stay visible so the profile reads as evidence, not decoration.
Overall Strength
Start with total quality before splitting style and variance.
Mark Stoops sets the reference point in overall strength.
Overall Strength
Decisive edgeMark Stoops sets the reference point in overall strength.
Normalized score; raw SP overall stays underneath for reference.
Mark Stoops
Strong
- Raw avg SP Overall
- 5.6
- Percentile
- 74th pct
Strong
Normalized against the full tracked coach pool.
Impact by school
See how each stint compared with what that program usually looked like outside that same span.
Kentucky
2013-2025 • 77-73
Compared with this school's baseline outside that stint over the prior 5 seasons (5 baseline seasons found).
Avg SRS 3.2Win % 51.3%
Avg wins
Higher is better
5.9 during vs 5.4 baseline
+0.5
Avg SRS
Higher is better
3.2 during vs -0.3 baseline
+3.5
Avg SP Overall
Higher is better
5.6 during vs -1.5 baseline
+7.1
Ranked finish rate
Higher is better
7.7% during vs 0.0% baseline
+7.7%
Career highs and lows
High Points
Best Season
Kentucky 2018
10-3 • SRS 14.7
Biggest Improvement
Kentucky 2018
10-3 • 14.2 SRS
Best Offensive Season
Kentucky 2021
10-3 • SP Off 35.1
Best Defensive Season
Kentucky 2022
7-6 • SP Def 9.9
Setbacks
Worst Season
Kentucky 2013
2-10 • SRS -6.4
Biggest Drop
Kentucky 2019
8-5 • -9.1 SRS
Season-by-season results
Full transparency into every season in the coaching record. Positive YoY values indicate improvement from the prior season.
| Kentucky | 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 2.9 | 1.8 | 25.5 | 23.7 | -0.1 | — |
| Kentucky | 2024 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 33.3% | — | — | 3.0 | 5.5 | 24.5 | 20.9 | -2.3 | -20.5% |
| Kentucky | 2023 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 5.3 | 10.5 | 31.6 | 22.2 | -0.2 | 0.0% |
| Kentucky | 2022 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | #20 | — | 5.5 | 13.0 | 23.2 | 9.9 | -3.5 | -23.1% |
| Kentucky | 2021 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | #18 | 9.0 | 13.4 | 35.1 | 22.3 | +5.1 | +31.5% |
| Kentucky | 2020 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 45.5% | — | — | 3.9 | 2.2 | 25.9 | 24.1 | -1.7 | -16.1% |
| Kentucky | 2019 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 61.5% | — | — | 5.6 | 9.1 | 30.1 | 22.2 | -9.1 | -15.4% |
| Kentucky | 2018 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 76.9% | — | — | 14.7 | 13.1 | 29.5 | 16.3 | +14.2 | +23.1% |
| Kentucky | 2017 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 0.5 | 2.7 | 30.8 | 29.5 | +0.2 | 0.0% |
| Kentucky | 2016 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 53.8% | — | — | 0.3 | -2.6 | 30.8 | 33.4 | +3.4 | +12.2% |
| Kentucky | 2015 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | -3.1 | -0.3 | 26.8 | 27.2 | -3.2 | 0.0% |
| Kentucky | 2014 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 41.7% | — | — | 0.1 | 6.6 | 29.8 | 24.8 | +6.5 | +25.0% |
| Kentucky | 2013 | 12 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 16.7% | — | — | -6.4 | -2.5 | 27.6 | 31.2 | — | — |
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