Four head coaches hired last offseason reached the Sweet 16 this year, but Arkansas' John Calipari finds himself at a much different point in his career than the rest. Michigan's Dusty May is in his ...

John Calipari vs. Rick Pitino for a spot in the ... It was just a Kentucky-Louisville and Louisville-Memphis thing. We don't know each other's wives or children. We're not really close friends.

Calipari took the first meeting between both teams in 2002, which came when the Hall of Famer was at Memphis and Self was at ...

“John and I don’t play one-on-one anymore ... One is Pitino — at Providence, Kentucky and Louisville. The other is Calipari — at Massachusetts, Memphis and Kentucky.

PROVIDENCE-- The relationship between Rick Pitino and John Calipari stretches back decades ... It was just a Kentucky-Louisville and Louisville-Memphis thing. We don’t know each other’s ...

Mar 22, 2025; Providence, RI, USA; Arkansas Razorbacks head coach John Calipari during the ... seasons before moving onto Kentucky. Calipari's 2008 Memphis team, led by Derrick Rose, nearly ...

Bill Self’s Jayhawks beat Calipari’s Memphis Tigers in the 2008 NCAA Championship and then Kentucky beat Kansas in 2012. If the Hogs prevail, he’ll likely face Rick Pitino and St. John’s.

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 ...

His relationship with Arkansas coach John Calipari is different ... It was just a Kentucky-Louisville and Louisville-Memphis thing. We don't know each other's wives or children.

He congratulated his archnemesis, John Calipari ... first time as annual rivals—Pitino with Louisville and Calipari with the Memphis Tigers, both in Conference USA. The enmity deepened during ...

When John Calipari rose to prominence at UMass during ... at Louisville and Calipari had arrived at Kentucky after leading Memphis to the 2008 Final Four. Calipari was at his peak as a coach ...