With John Calipari back in Sweet 16 with Arkansas, pressure now on Mark Pope to get Kentucky there as well
With No. 12 Kentucky sitting at 15-5 (4-3 SEC) and coming off a win at No. 8 Tennessee as the calendar flipped to February, there was no doubt. Kentucky had won the breakup with John Calipari, and it wasn't particularly close.
John Calipari and Arkansas prove you can still win with freshmen
But now Calipari’s latest team -- a No. 10 Arkansas squad which features three freshmen who played brilliantly on Saturday -- has busted into the Sweet 16 by virtue of a 75-66 victory over Rick Pitino and No. 2 St. John’s. Calipari improved to 3-2 all-time against Pitino in the Big Dance.
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John Calipari is going full send on the underdog mentality, which might just work as Arkansas looks to pull off another upset ...
Behind a team-high 16 points from freshman Billy Richmond III — a former Kentucky commit from when Calipari led the UK ...
Pitino, who's in contention for coach of the year, has taken quite the journey back to the grandest stage of college ...
John Calipari was at a crossroads. Stay at Kentucky or go to Arkansas? He went to Las Vegas and got his answer from a ...
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Head coaches John Calipari and Rick Pitino will face off against each other for the first time in years. But this time, on very different teams.
St. John’s pulled away in the second half vs Omaha, setting up a marquee second-round matchup with John Calipari and Arkansas ...
Calipari and Kentucky won one game in the 2023 Big Dance. In '22, though, they were shocked by 15 seed St. Peter's, which beat the Wildcats 85-79 in overtime. In 2021, Kentucky failed to get an invite ...
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