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Kentucky coach John Calipari looked up at the clock after Miami of Ohio tied the fourth-ranked Wildcats with six seconds left and wondered if he should call timeout.
Elliot Williams scored 19 points, Will Coleman finished with 16, and Memphis won its first game since John Calipari left, beating Jackson State 82-53 Friday night to give coach Josh Pastner a winning debut.
Kentucky freshman Eric Bledsoe scored 24 points while starting in place of John Wall, and the fourth-ranked Wildcats opened the John Calipari era with a 75-59 win over Morehead State on Friday night.
New Kentucky coach John Calipari says the Wildcats could open his first season with three freshman starters.
On a stage befitting a rock star, John Calipari got his first taste of a packed house at Rupp Arena on Friday night and promised to return Kentucky basketball to "its rightful place at the top of the mountain."
Hours before the NCAA stripped Memphis of its 2008 Final Four appearance, former coach John Calipari stepped to a microphone at the Kentucky State Fair and received a standing ovation.
No banners are coming down anytime soon. Not the 2008 Final Four banner nor the one honoring three seniors for an NCAA-record 137 wins. Memphis isn't giving up any of its 38 victories without a fight. The NCAA announced Thursday that Memphis must vacate the 38 wins and the national championship game appearance from the 2007-08 season as punishment for using an ineligible player believed to be NBA star Derrick Rose. Memphis didn't wait even an hour before declaring plans to appeal what school president Shirley Raines called unfair penalties.
A letter from the NCAA tells Kentucky coach John Calipari he must participate in next week's hearing on alleged major violations at Memphis, even though he isn't considered "at risk" in the probe.
Freshly minted Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari hasn't been accused of wrongdoing, just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
John Calipari's move to Kentucky has cost him one of his prized recruits.
John Calipari stepped away from the sea of tape recorders, microphones and cameras and walked quickly down the hall toward Kentucky's glistening practice court inside the Joe Kraft Center.
Forward DeMarcus Cousins has signed a national letter of intent to play at Kentucky, the first one secured by new coach John Calipari.
John Calipari's coaching staff at Kentucky will have some familiar faces.
The $31.65 million deal making John Calipari the highest-paid coach in college basketball is packed with perks beyond his annual salary, including membership to the country club of his choice, two cars and incentives for reaching the NCAA Sweet Sixteen and Final Four and winning a national title.
John Calipari thought he'd pop up on Kentucky's radar two years ago when the Wildcats were looking for Tubby Smith's replacement and Calipari was coming off a 33-win season at Memphis. He spent a week constantly asking his wife Ellen if Kentucky's number had finally popped up on the caller ID. "I called my wife every day for six days. Did they call? Did they call?" Calipari said. "Then I kind of figured out: They're not calling."
New Kentucky basketball John Calipari told the Kentucky faithful Wednesday that he is not the "grand poobah" or the "emperor." He got a king's ransom, however, to leave Memphis. Before the news conference, Kentucky's athletics board approved an eight-year, $31.65 million contract that makes Calipari the highest paid basketball coach in the nation.
John Calipari thinks his Memphis Tigers should be a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, and there are more reasons to agree with him than to disagree. Unfortunately, the two arguements against him trump all the ones for him.
Memphis coach John Calipari stopped on court for a few questions with his seniors, enjoying a moment with the winningest three players over a four-year stretch of men's college basketball.
Memphis coach John Calipari feels he and his fourth-ranked Tigers escaped the upsets that knocked off three of the nation's top teams Thursday night.
Tigers coach John Calipari says guard Doneal Mack will return to Memphis for the 2008-09 season after all.
Memphis coach John Calipari signed a contract extension through the 2012-13 season that includes an annual raise of $500,000 and a $5 million bonus if he stays through the end of the contract.
Memphis freshman Derrick Rose announced he was jumping to the NBA Tuesday, the same day coach John Calipari agreed in principle to a contract extension with the school.
John Calipari was named Naismith National Coach of the Year by The Atlanta Tipoff Club on Wednesday.
Memphis coach John Calipari looked at the box score and saw all kinds of numbers he liked.
Personally, I think sports have become too professional and too money oriented. One major reason the old Greek Olympics were ended supposedly was that they had become corrupted in that way.
It was just in the last couple of days news broke that not only was University of Kentucky basketball coach Billy Gillespie on the way out but that big time coach and top recruiter John Calipari, who is the winningest coach in University of Memphis history, is very close to being …
Calipari rumors floating in MissouriMemphis coach John Calipari's name continues to float around Columbia. Head coaches with Final Four credentials qualify as wows.
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