So Calipari, who is in his first season ... If the Hogs prevail, he’ll likely face Rick Pitino and St. John’s. Pitino’s Kentucky teams beat UMass in the 1992 Sweet Sixteen and the 1996 ...

CALIPARI: “They’re a team that’s going ... Jim Calhoun at Connecticut and John at UMass. You look at UConn today and say, of course, but back then, it wasn’t that way.

"I've been at different jobs. I was at UMASS eight years, Memphis nine years, 15 years at Kentucky," John Calipari said. "It's dog years now and I loved it and it was a great run. We helped a lot ...

Advertisement Rick Pitino, coaching the St. John’s Red Storm ... regularly taking credit for him landing the UMass job. Years passed. On Friday, Calipari explained the non-relationship between ...

Mandatory Credit: Jim O'Connor-USA TODAY Sports Rick Pitino would go on to be a rival of Calipari. The current St. John's coach infamously claims that in 1988 he told UMass to hire Calipari ...

The Arkansas Razorbacks thrived under head coach John Calipari last season. Arkansas made their way to the Sweet 16 in ...

For the first time maybe ever as he climbed from UMass to the NBA, then from Memphis to Lexington, Calipari had to think ... an intense 75-66 upset over St. John’s that might be as personally ...

John Calipari is in a position many would have hoped for this time ... One of those appearances, at UMass in 1996, saw his team beat Nolan Richardson and Arkansas as part of its run to the Final Four.

When John Calipari rose to prominence at UMass during the same era as Rick Pitino was (re)building a powerhouse program at Kentucky, for some reason the broader media had no idea how to process ...

Calipari led a UMass golden era during his eight seasons ... hitting the ground running with a 35-3 season in year one with John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins on the roster. By year three, Calipari ...

Rick Pitino and John Calipari faced off for the 30th time on Saturday when St. John's and Arkansas battled in the NCAA Tournament second round.

A storybook season for Pitino’s second-seeded St. John’s came to a sudden end as Calipari’s 10th-seeded Arkansas pulled off a 75-66 upset in Providence, R.I. St. John’s (31-5) shot just 28% from the ...