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.

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 ...

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 ...

At Memphis and Kentucky, Calipari earned the reputation for playing freshmen right away and frequently watching them leave ...

The Arkansas Razorbacks are fresh off their first season under head coach John Calipari, surging up the SEC standings.

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.

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"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 ...

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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 ...