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John Calipari has been a coach in NCAA college basketball for 33 years — and isn't going anywhere yet. The Hall of Fame coach said recently that the timing of his retirement hinges on whether he ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — On April 4, 2015, John Calipari was the king of college basketball. He’d brought Kentucky to the Final Four for the fourth time in five years, this time with an unprecedented ...
Calipari ends his 15-year run with the Wildcats with an overall record of 410-123 (.769), capturing the national championship in 2012, taking national runner-up honors in 2014 and reaching the ...
John Calipari honored a close friendSmith’s contributions also helped the school recruit former NBA All-Star Derrick Rose, who led them to a historic 38-2 season in 2008. “He, Billy Dunavant ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — John Calipari is stepping down as Kentucky’s men’s basketball coach after 15 years, saying Tuesday that the “program probably needs to hear another voice” amid reports ...
John Calipari made the decision to lean into the Transfer Portal ahead of his first season. That class saw eight players transfer out of the program with five players transfer into it.
Calipari didn’t do that in his last six years there. He should have won at least one more national title — namely with the 38-0 team he brought to the Final Four only to fall to Wisconsin in 2015.
But this is a start: Arkansas and Calipari are moving on to the second round, potentially matching up with No. 2 St. John’s and another Hall of Fame coach in Rick Pitino.
A win at Kentucky in February. A victory over Rick Pitino in March. John Calipari, who has now led four different programs to the Sweet 16, has once again triumphed when many assumed the opposite.
John Wall, who would have gone to Memphis had Calipari remained, instead went with the Wildcats, and though Eric Bledsoe kept the Tigers in his final two, he also opted for the coach instead of ...
John Calipari defended not calling a timeout on Thrusday in a loss to Texas Tech after blowing a 13-point lead in the final minutes of March Madness.