Pitino would love to land Jackson for the St. John's Red Storm, especially since it would provide a bit of payback to ...

Not good friends but not enemies, either, the Pitino and Calipari dynamic can be described as unenthusiastically respectful: not bitter or unkind but lacking the warmth and camaraderie that come ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rick Pitino and John Calipari. Gucci loafers vs. sneakers. The native New Yorker back in his hometown against a quintessential carpetbagger making yet another stop on the ...

The second round of the men’s NCAA Tournament has gifted basketball fans a coaching matchup with a long history: St. John's ...

One game after knocking out good friend Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks, Calipari's 10th-seeded Arkansas Razorbacks beat longtime nemesis Rick Pitino and St. John's 75-66 on Saturday. That earned ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The basketball gods must have an affinity for sportswriters, because the fact we are going to get Rick Pitino vs. John Calipari one more time is so good, it almost feels ...

Rick Pitino wasn’t interested in hyping up his marquee matchup with John Calipari. Sure, the Hall of Fame coaches have traded haymakers throughout their many basketball battles over the past ...

Pitino and Calipari have been compared for decades, from the time Calipari arrived on the college basketball scene at UMass while Pitino was returning Kentucky to national prominence. The two were ...

Calipari and Pitino have faced each other 23 times as college coaches and the former leads that series, 13-10.