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American college basketball coach

John Calipari

Calipari in November 2014
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Kentucky
Conference	SEC
Record	365–101 (.783)
Annual salary	$9.27 meg[1]
Biographical details
Born	(1959-02-x) February x, 1959 (age 63) Moon Township, Pennsylvania
Playing career
1978–1980	UNC Wilmington
1980–1982	Clarion
Position(s)	Point guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1982–1985	Kansas (associate assistant)
1985–1988	Pittsburgh (assistant)
1988–1996	UMass
1996–1999	New Bailiwick of jersey Nets
1999–2000	Philadelphia 76ers (assistant)
2000–2009	Memphis
2009–present	Kentucky
Caput coaching record
Overall	768–239 (.763)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
NCAA Segmentation I Tournament (2012) 6 NCAA Regional – Terminal Four (1996*, 2008*, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015) 6 SEC Tournament (2010, 2011, 2015–2018) vi SEC regular flavour (2010, 2012, 2015–2017, 2020) 4 C-Us Tournament (2006–2009) 5 C-USA regular season (2004, 2006–2009) NIT (2002) 5 A10 Tournament (1992–1996) 5 A10 regular season (1992–1996) * Vacated by the NCAA
Awards
3× Naismith College Coach of the Yr (1996, 2008, 2015) AP College Coach of the Year (2015) 3× NABC Double-decker of the Twelvemonth (1996, 2009, 2015) two× Basketball Times Coach of the Year (1996, 2015) two× Adolph Rupp Cup (2010, 2015) Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year (2009) 4× SEC Coach of the Year (2010, 2012, 2015, 2020) iii× C-USA Coach of the Year (2006, 2008, 2009) 3× A10 Double-decker of the Twelvemonth (1993, 1994, 1996)
Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2015 (profile)
Medal record Head Coach for Dominican Republic Dominican Republic national team FIBA Americas Championship 2011 Mar del Plata Men's Basketball Centrobasket 2012 Puerto Rico Men's Basketball Marchand Cup 2011 Marchand Cup Men'south Basketball Head Motorcoach for Us U.s.a. men's national under-xix basketball squad FIBA Under-19 World Cup 2017 Egypt National squad

John Vincent Calipari (built-in February 10, 1959) is an American basketball motorbus. Since 2009, he has been the head coach of the Academy of Kentucky men's squad, with whom he won the NCAA Championship in 2012. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times (in 1996, 2008 and 2015), and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.

He was previously the head bus at the University of Massachusetts from 1988 to 1996, the NBA's New Jersey Nets from 1996 to 1999 and the University of Memphis from 2000 to 2009, and was the head coach of the Dominican Republic national team in 2011 and 2012.

Calipari has coached Kentucky to iv Terminal Fours, in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015. He too led UMass and Memphis to the Final Four in 1996 and 2008 respectively; those appearances were later vacated, though Calipari was cleared of wrongdoing in both cases.^[ii] As a college jitney, Calipari has twenty-vii xx-win seasons, eleven 30-win seasons, and five 35-win seasons.

Equally of March fifth, 2022, with 768 official wins, Calipari ranks 17th on the NCAA Division I all-time winningest coaches list. He has won i national title.

Early life [edit]

Calipari was born in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. He is of Italian descent. He attended Moon Surface area Loftier School and graduated in 1978. His male parent worked in a steel manufacturing plant and subsequently at an airport. His mother worked in the schoolhouse deli, serving pizza.

Playing career [edit]

John Calipari, 1979–1980 UNCW basketball team

Calipari was a high school point guard who was a fringe partitioning 1 prospect.

Calipari lettered two years at UNC Wilmington earlier transferring to Blaring Academy of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing. He played indicate guard at Blaring during the 1981 and 1982 seasons, leading the team in assists and free throw percentage.

Coaching career [edit]

From 1982 to 1985, Calipari was an assistant at the Academy of Kansas under Ted Owens and Larry Brown.^{[3] [iv]} Calipari had several jobs as the lowest double-decker in the pecking order when Ted Owens hired him every bit a volunteer assistant for the Jayhawks' 1982–83 flavour, including serving food at the training table.^[iii] "I was blessed to accept the adventure. Tin can you imagine beingness 22, 23 and your first opportunity to be around the game is at a program like Kansas?"^[3]

From 1985 to 1988, he was an assistant coach at the University of Pittsburgh under Roy Chipman and Paul Evans. From 1988 to 1996, he was head coach at the University of Massachusetts. From 1996 to 1999, he was head bus and Executive VP of basketball game operations for the NBA'due south New Bailiwick of jersey Nets. During the 1999–2000 season, he was an assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76ers under double-decker Larry Brown, before moving on to his next position at the University of Memphis.

Calipari is famous for popularizing the dribble drive motion offense, developed by Vance Walberg, which is sometimes known every bit the "Memphis Assault".

In his 22 official seasons (23 seasons overall) every bit a collegiate head motorcoach, Calipari's record is 667–194 (.775). His record in the month of March is 107–37 (.743). His NCAA adapted (the records of two appearances being removed) official record in the NCAA tournament is 38–12 (.760), and in the NIT is 15–6 (.714). His teams accept made 15 NCAA tournament appearances (xiii official, due to 2 later on existence vacated), including reaching the Sugariness Sixteen 12 times (10 official, due to 2 later on being vacated), the Elite Eight ten times (8 official, due to ii later existence vacated), the Concluding Four six times (4 official, due to 2 subsequently being vacated), the NCAA Title Game 3 times (twice officially, with the 2008 Title Game appearance while at Memphis being vacated by the NCAA), winning the NCAA Title at Kentucky in 2012, and finishing NCAA Runner Up in 2014.

As a college coach, Calipari has 21 20-win seasons (20 official) and 9 xxx-win seasons (8 official). He has also coached 6 teams to the NIT, winning the NIT Championship at Memphis in 2002. He is one of only four coaches in NCAA Sectionalization I history to straight three different schools to a #i seed in the NCAA Tournament.^[v]

The "Platoon Arrangement", established nether John Calipari not only provided life for the University of Kentucky'due south basketball team, but it also provided an of import defensive weapon. The Platoon System was introduced in 2014, and consisted of playing 10 men in legions of v. Each platoon includes 3 ball handlers and 2 taller players. What makes the Platoon System so special is that most teams cannot play two seven foot players on the court at all time.

Since 2009, the Wildcats head coach John Calipari has been on the top of the high school basketball recruiting mountain. Recruiting has always been paramount for John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats. According to the Washington Post, Calipari's teams have been a defensive powerhouse, historically ranking in the top l in Ken Pomeroy's defensive fence. Considering of his successful recruiting John Calipari is able to bring in aristocracy talent, and does not accept to use a mundane ii–three zone, or man to homo defensive tactics to proceeds a defensive border. Due to the employ of four seven foot front end court players,^[6] Kentucky has had the ability to brandish their defensive shot blocking presence.

Ane notable statistic is that, from 2002 to 2018, all 25 players coached by Calipari who chose to enter the NBA draft later on their first flavour were drafted in the get-go circular. This streak started with Dajuan Wagner at the University of Memphis, and concluded when Kentucky Wildcat Jarred Vanderbilt was non drafted until the 2d circular.^[7]

University of Massachusetts [edit]

From 1988 to 1996 at UMass, Calipari led the Minutemen program to five consecutive Atlantic 10 titles and NCAA Tournament appearances, including periods where the plan was ranked first nationally. He finished with a 193–71 record overall, with a 91–41 record in Atlantic 10 conference games. Calipari was named Atlantic 10 Bus of the Yr in 1992, 1993, and 1996. He was also named the Naismith, NABC, Basketball Times & Sporting News National Bus of the Year in 1996. He led UMass to its first-ever advent in the Final Four with the play of the John R. Wooden Accolade winner and Naismith Higher Player of the Year Marcus Camby, although this appearance was later vacated past the NCAA because Camby had accustomed about $28,000 worth of gifts, in particular a gold chain, from two sports agents who were luring him to enter the NBA draft later on his Sophomore season.^[8]

Calipari helped accelerate the construction of the Mullins Center, UMass' basketball and hockey facility. He also reached out to eastern Massachusetts and Boston to enlarge the fan base. Before moving on to the New Bailiwick of jersey Nets, Calipari became the second winningest coach in UMass history behind Jack Leaman.^[9]

In 2010, and then-ESPN.com writer Pat Forde, in his "Forde Minutes" cavalcade, said of the 1992 team:

Calipari'due south greatest strength equally a coach is his ability to create teams that play together. His 1992 Massachusetts team remains i of the most overachieving units The Minutes has ever seen, featuring a shooting baby-sit with range and so express he made ane 3-arrow all season (Jim McCoy), a half-dozen-foot-three power forward (Will Herndon), and a left-handed centre who stood all of half-dozen–7 (Harper Williams). Somehow, that collection of marginal talent went thirty–5 and advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16.^[ten]

In the Sweet sixteen matchup with Kentucky in 1992, official Lenny Wirtz issued Calipari a controversial technical foul for being outside the coach'south box during a crucial UMass possession. Kentucky went on to face Duke in the next round in one of the greatest games in college basketball game history, won on a last-second shot by Christian Laettner.

In 1993, UMass defeated defending NCAA champion and preseason #1 Due north Carolina in the pre-flavor NIT in Madison Square Garden. The following twelvemonth #3 UMass defeated defending NCAA champion and #one Arkansas in the Hall of Fame Tip-Off classic, which resulted in UMass becoming the first New England college basketball squad to be voted #1 in the Associated Printing poll.

During Calipari'due south tenure at UMass, the program became ane of the most dominant in higher basketball game despite recruiting just ane McDonald's All-American (Donta Bright) and having only two players drafted past an NBA team (Lou Roe and Marcus Camby). Forde recalled the Final Four squad in Calipari'southward last UMass season in 1995–96 as a squad "with one superstar (Marcus Camby) and a drove of complementary parts".^[10] Past winning both the Atlantic 10 regular season and conference tournament championships from 1992 to 1996, UMass became the 2d team in college basketball history to win 5 sequent regular season and conference tournament championships (NC State was the first).

New Jersey Nets and Philadelphia 76ers [edit]

In the 1996–97 season, John Calipari replaced Butch Beard every bit head coach of the New Jersey Nets. After a 26–56 debut season, the Nets made a major draft-day trade in June 1997, acquiring Keith Van Horn, Lucious Harris and two other players in exchange for Tim Thomas.

In 1997, while coaching the New Jersey Nets, Calipari directed profanities at Star-Ledger sports reporter Dan Garcia and referred to him as a "Mexican idiot".^[11] Garcia sued for $five,000,000 for emotional distress. Though the example was dismissed^[12] and Calipari apologized for his remarks,^[11] he was still fined $25,000 past the NBA.^[13]

The 1997–98 flavour was a lone brilliant spot for the Nets in the tardily 1990s. The team played well under Calipari, winning 43 games and qualifying for the playoffs on the final day of the flavor. The Nets were seeded eighth in the Eastern Conference and lost to the Chicago Bulls in the 1998 playoffs in three straight games.

The 1998–99 flavour was delayed for three months due to an owners' lockout of the players. When the abbreviated fifty-game season began, the Nets were a pick past experts as a surprise team. However, Sam Cassell was injured in the first game and the team started poorly. With the Nets underachieving at three–fifteen, the Nets traded Cassell to the Milwaukee Bucks, while the Nets acquired Stephon Marbury from the Minnesota Timberwolves. After two more losses, Calipari was fired every bit head coach with the team at 3–17. He finished his tenure with an overall record of 72 wins and 112 losses and a .391 overall winning percentage. He then joined Larry Brownish as an assistant coach for the Philadelphia 76ers.^[fourteen]

University of Memphis [edit]

Calipari became caput charabanc at the University of Memphis in 2000. In Calipari's starting time nine years every bit head motorbus at Memphis, he won 214 games (38 wins were vacated) and posted seven consecutive 20-win seasons, plus i more in his final season (including an NCAA record iv consecutive 30-win seasons, though the tertiary season was vacated and this tape no longer holds). He as well earned seven consecutive postseason bids (plus i in his terminal flavor). His 2007–2008 team'due south 38 victories ready a new NCAA Segmentation I Men'southward Basketball record for most victories in a season, a tape that now belongs to the 2011–2012 Kentucky Wildcats due to NCAA violations that vacated all of Memphis' wins. The ix consecutive 20-win seasons and the nine consecutive postseason appearances would have been the most in schoolhouse history, though that officially stands now at 7 considering of the vacated 2007–08 season. He was named Conference Us Autobus of the Year in 2006, 2008, and 2009. In 2008, he was named Naismith College Coach of the Year, receiving the honor for the 2nd time.^[fifteen] In 2009, he was named Sports Illustrated College Basketball Coach of the Year.^[16]

He built a national program by recruiting blueish flake players from the Eastern role of the land, such every bit Dajuan Wagner from Camden (NJ), Darius Washington Jr. from Orlando (FL), Rodney Carney from Indianapolis (IN), Shawne Williams from Memphis (TN), Joey Dorsey from Baltimore (MD), Chris Douglas-Roberts from Detroit (MI), Antonio Anderson from Lynn (MA), Robert Dozier from Lithonia (GA), Derrick Rose from Chicago (IL), and Tyreke Evans from Aston (PA).

While at Memphis, Calipari popularized the dribble drive motion offense that was invented by former Pepperdine basketball omnibus Vance Walberg.^{[17] [xviii]}

On January 21, 2008, Calipari led the Tigers to the No. 1 ranking in the AP Poll for but the second fourth dimension in school history.

In 2006 and 2008, Memphis earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. In 2008, Calipari'south Tigers advanced to the national championship game, their first under his leadership. They as well won 38 games, the about regular-season wins in NCAA history (his 2011–12 Kentucky squad would as well go on to win 38 games). His team, however, would lose to the Kansas Jayhawks, 75–68, in overtime. This team later had its entire season record vacated past the NCAA because the Educational Testing Service (ETS), which administers the SAT college admissions test, invalidated Derrick Rose's score on that test. Despite this, Rose nevertheless denies any wrongdoing. The NCAA began to investigate the test and contacted the ETS. Because the NCAA had begun to investigate, ETS decided to review the test. The ETS sent 3 messages to Rose's family unit's former address in Chicago (instead of his dorm in Memphis) to enquire that Rose verify some information on his exam. Because he did not reply to the letters, ETS invalidated his SAT. This happened even though the NCAA investigated and reported that they could not find meaning bear witness to prove that Rose did not take the exam. Considering the ETS had invalidated the test, the NCAA retroactively alleged Rose ineligible. To this day, the official position of the NCAA is that Rose did take his own Sat. If not for the vacated wins, Calipari would be the winningest charabanc in Tigers history, every bit he would take 252 wins to Larry Finch's 220.

On May 28, 2010, John Calipari, Derrick Rose, and Academy of Memphis athletic director R.C. Johnson reached a $100,000 out-of-court settlement with three attorneys who represented Memphis season ticket holders and threatened a lawsuit over the vacated 2007–08 season. Also as part of the settlement, Calipari donated his near-$232,000 bonus to the Memphis scholarship fund.^[19]

University of Kentucky [edit]

On March 30, 2009, four days after Memphis' flavor ending loss to Missouri in the NCAA Tournament, multiple sources reported that Calipari would concord to be the caput coach at the University of Kentucky, afterward UK'due south head passenger vehicle, Billy Gillispie, was fired after two unsuccessful seasons at the schoolhouse.^[20] Calipari rejected a counter offer by Memphis for Kentucky'southward 8 year, $31.65 meg contract.^[21]

According to university officials, John Calipari signed a written contract on March 31, 2009. The contract was worth $34.65 one thousand thousand over eight years, plus incentives.^[21] On April 1, 2009, the University of Kentucky Director of Athletics, Mitch Barnhart, formally introduced John Calipari as the new double-decker of the University of Kentucky Wildcats. During the press conference, Calipari spoke at length about his relationships with quondam UK basketball players and coaches, and also in his difficulties in accepting the Great britain task, largely due to his deep emotional ties with both the city of Memphis and University of Memphis. Calipari stated, "Coming to UK was the easy role, it was leaving the metropolis of Memphis that was the hard part." He went on to refer to the University of Kentucky coaching position as his "dream chore". Calipari became the 22nd jitney overall at Kentucky, and just the seventh coach in the concluding 79 years for the Wildcats.

2009–10 [edit]

In his start year every bit head coach, Calipari had a highly touted recruiting form, including the No. 1 overall rated recruit, John Wall, plus boyfriend 5-star recruits, DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Bledsoe, and Daniel Orton. On Dec 21, 2009, Calipari led the Cats to their 12th victory of the season and the program'southward 2,000th victory always. Kentucky won its 44th SEC Regular Season Championship in 2009–ten, with a 14–2 conference record. Calipari'southward team followed this upwardly with the Great britain'south 26th SEC Tournament Championship, with an overtime defeat of Mississippi Land, 75–74, in the SEC Tournament title game. In the NCAA Tournament, all the same, No. ane seed Kentucky (East Region) was upset past W Virginia in the Elite 8, to stop the season at 35–iii.

2010–11 [edit]

In his 2d season at Kentucky, Calipari recruited the No. 1 rated betoken baby-sit in the 2010 class, Brandon Knight. In add-on to Knight, Calipari also signed two other five-star recruits, Terrence Jones and Doron Lamb. In 2010–eleven, Kentucky finished the regular flavor with a record of 22–8, with a 10–6 tape in SEC regular flavor play. UK would go on to win its 2nd consecutive SEC Tournament Championship, defeating Florida, lxx–54, in the SEC Tournament title game. As a effect, Kentucky received a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament (East Regional). During the NCAA Tournament, Kentucky would proceed to defeat No. 1 overall seed Ohio State, 62–threescore, in the Sweet-16. In the Aristocracy Viii, Calipari'due south team would avenge an early season loss to Northward Carolina, by defeating the Tar Heels, 76–69, securing Kentucky's first Final Four appearance since 1998. In the Concluding Four, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland fell to the eventual NCAA Champions, UConn, by one point, 56–55, finishing with a last record of 29–9.

2011–12 [edit]

Tom Izzo and Calipari, two of the highest paid higher coaches in 2012,^[22] talk while scouting a blue chip recruit

In this tertiary season, Kentucky landed another No. one recruiting course with iv consensus five star players: Anthony Davis, Marquis Teague, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Kyle Wiltjer. Kentucky came into the season ranked #2 in the country. They finished the regular season with a 30–1 record, their only loss to Indiana past a cablegram-beater and went xvi–0 in conference play. In the SEC tournament, Kentucky lost in the championship game to Vanderbilt 71–64. In the NCAA Tournament, Calipari'due south team was selected equally the overall #1 seed in the tournament, representing as the S Region #ane seed. Kentucky avenged the early flavor loss to Indiana beating them in the Sweetness Sixteen 102–90, and knocked off Baylor in the Elite Eight 82–70, to advance to their second consecutive Final Four. In the Concluding Four in New Orleans, Kentucky start faced their in-state rival, the Louisville Cardinals and Rick Pitino, winning 69–61. Two days later, in the National Title game, Kentucky played in another early season rematch against the Kansas Jayhawks, winning a hard-fought contest 67–59. The win secured Calipari his first NCAA Championship, an NCAA record 38-win season, and the 8th overall NCAA Championship for Kentucky. By doing and then, John Calipari became the 5th head double-decker to win an NCAA Championship at Kentucky (an NCAA record), and the first coach to do so at the school since Tubby Smith in 1998.

Following the 2012 title, United kingdom Athletics Manager Mitch Barnhart announced on May 4 that Calipari's contract had been renegotiated. Under the new contract, Calipari will brand up to $8.0 one thousand thousand annually^[23] (non including bonuses), which farther cements his condition equally one of the most highly compensated college basketball coaches in the country. Mike Krzyzewski, motorbus of the Duke Academy team, leads the NCAA at an annual bacon of $9.8 million.^{[ commendation needed ]}

In April 2019, Calipari agreed to a "lifetime" contract with Kentucky, centered on a x-year coaching extension, and a lifetime paid ambassadorship when he retires.^[24]

Higher statistics [edit]

Yr	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1978–79	UNC Wilmington	25	North/A	N/A	.235	Due north/A	.840	0.3	0.9	0.0	0.0	1.2
1980–81	Clarion	nineteen	Due north/A	N/A	.457	Northward/A	.615	0.ix	two.half-dozen	0.9	0.0	3.ane
1981–82	Clarion	27	N/A	N/A	.387	N/A	.717	1.0	5.iii	1.3	0.i	5.3

Caput coaching record [edit]

College [edit]

Statistics overview

Season	Squad	Overall	Briefing	Standing	Postseason
UMass Minutemen (Atlantic 10 Conference) (1988–1996)
1988–89	UMass	ten–xviii	five–13	8th
1989–90	UMass	17–14	10–8	6th	NIT Showtime Round
1990–91	UMass	20–13	10–eight	T–3rd	NIT Fourth Place
1991–92	UMass	30–5	13–iii	1st	NCAA Sectionalization I Sweetness 16
1992–93	UMass	24–vii	11–iii	1st	NCAA Partition I Round of 32
1993–94	UMass	28–7	14–2	1st	NCAA Division I Round of 32
1994–95	UMass	29–five	xiii–iii	1st	NCAA Division I Elite 8
1995–96	UMass	35–2*	15–1	1st	NCAA Partitioning I Final 4*
UMass:		189–lxx (.730)*	91–41 (.689)
Memphis Tigers (Conference USA) (2000–2009)
2000–01	Memphis	21–15	10–half-dozen	2nd (National)	NIT Third Place
2001–02	Memphis	27–9	12–4	1st (National)	NIT Champion
2002–03	Memphis	23–7	13–3	1st (National)	NCAA Partitioning I Round of 64
2003–04	Memphis	22–8	12–iv	T–1st	NCAA Division I Circular of 32
2004–05	Memphis	22–16	9–7	T–6th	NIT Semifinal
2005–06	Memphis	33–4	13–i	1st	NCAA Partitioning I Aristocracy Eight
2006–07	Memphis	33–iv	sixteen–0	1st	NCAA Segmentation I Elite Viii
2007–08	Memphis	38–2**	xvi–0**	1st **	NCAA Sectionalization I Runner-upwardly**
2008–09	Memphis	33–four	16–0	1st	NCAA Division I Sweet sixteen
Memphis:		214–68 (.759)**	101–25 (.802)**
Kentucky Wildcats (Southeastern Conference) (2009–nowadays)
2009–10	Kentucky	35–iii	14–2	1st (Eastward)	NCAA Division I Elite 8
2010–11	Kentucky	29–9	10–half dozen	second (East)	NCAA Division I Final Four
2011–12	Kentucky	38–2	xvi–0	1st	NCAA Sectionalization I Champion
2012–thirteen	Kentucky	21–12	12–six	T–2nd	NIT Start Round
2013–fourteen	Kentucky	29–11	12–6	T–2nd	NCAA Division I Runner-upward
2014–15	Kentucky	38–i	xviii–0	1st	NCAA Division I Final Four
2015–16	Kentucky	27–ix	13–5	T–1st	NCAA Division I Round of 32
2016–17	Kentucky	32–6	16–two	1st	NCAA Partition I Elite Eight
2017–18	Kentucky	26–11	10–8	T–4th	NCAA Sectionalisation I Sweet 16
2018–nineteen	Kentucky	thirty–7	15–3	T–2nd	NCAA Segmentation I Aristocracy 8
2019–20	Kentucky	25–6	15–3	1st	NCAA Division I Canceled****
2020–21	Kentucky	9–xvi	eight–9	8th
2021–22	Kentucky	26–8	14–4	T–2nd	NCAA Division I Round of 64
Kentucky:		365–101 (.783)	173–54 (.762)
Total:		768–239 (.763)***
National champion  Postseason invitational champion  Conference regular season champion  Conference regular season and conference tournament champion  Partitioning regular season champion  Partitioning regular season and conference tournament champion  Briefing tournament champion

* ^^abc UMass had its 4–1 record in the 1996 NCAA tournament and Final Four continuing vacated after Marcus Camby was ruled ineligible due to his contact with a sports agent.

** ^^abcdef  The NCAA vacated 38 wins and 1 loss from Memphis's 2007–08 season nether Calipari due to violations of NCAA rules.^[25]

*** ^ Under current NCAA official records, Calipari's tape equally of March 7, 2020 is 733–215 (.773), which accounts for the 4 vacated wins (and one vacated loss) in the 1995–96 NCAA Tournament at UMass, and the 38 vacated wins (and 1 vacated losses) at Memphis in the unabridged 2007–08 season.^[26]

Calipari'southward actual on-the-courtroom record without vacated games is 810–241 (.771)

****The 2020 NCAA tournament was canceled due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.

NBA [edit]

Legend

Regular season	K	Games coached	W	Games won	L	Games lost	W–L %	Win–loss %
Playoffs	PG	Playoff games	Pw	Playoff wins	PL	Playoff losses	Pw–L %	Playoff win–loss %

Team	Year	G	W	L	W–L%	Finish	PG	PW	PL	Prisoner of war–L%	Issue
New Bailiwick of jersey	1996–97	82	26	56	.317	5th in Atlantic	—	—	—	—	Missed Playoffs
New Bailiwick of jersey	1997–98	82	43	39	.524	3rd in Atlantic	iii	0	3	.000	Lost in Outset Circular
New Jersey	1998–99	twenty	3	17	.150	7th in Atlantic	—	—	—	—	Fired
Career		184	72	112	.391		three	0	iii	.000

Overall wins [edit]

On February 26, 2011, after Kentucky beat the Florida Gators in Rupp Arena, Calipari was recognized for his 500th career victory as a Segmentation I men's basketball autobus. Over the class of the next few months, the NCAA's Commission on Infractions (COI) and the Academy of Kentucky exchanged messages debating whether Calipari had indeed reached the 500-win milestone. Due to games vacated by the NCAA in two different seasons (the 1996 season at UMass and the 2008 season at Memphis), the NCAA only officially recognized Calipari's 500th all fourth dimension coaching victory on March xv, 2012.^[27]

Coaching tree [edit]

Assistant coaches nether Calipari who became NCAA or NBA head coaches

• Bill Bayno-UNLV (1995–2000)
• Bruiser Flint-UMass (1996–2001), Drexel (2001–2016)
• Derek Kellogg-UMass (2008–2017), LIU (2017–present)
• Chuck Martin-Marist (2008–2013)
• Josh Pastner-Memphis (2009–2016), Georgia Tech (2016–present)
• Orlando Antigua-South Florida (2014–2017)
• Tony Barbee-Central Michigan (2021–present)
• Kenny Payne-Louisville (2022–present)

Awards and honors [edit]

Calipari was inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.

On September xi, 2015, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. As of the 2015–2016 NCAA Division I college basketball flavour, John Calipari is one of but 6 active coaches enshrined.

On September 21, 2021, the primary basketball courtroom at Blaring University'southward Tippin Gymnasium was officially renamed "Jitney Cal Court."

Books [edit]

He has written several books, including Bounce Back: Overcoming Setbacks to Succeed in Business concern and in Life (2009)^[28] and Players First: Coaching from the Inside Out (2014).^[29] Additionally, Calipari starred in the thirty for 30 documentary from ESPN "1 and Not Washed" which details his professional career.

Personal life [edit]

Calipari, who has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Italy,^[30] has been married to his wife Ellen since 1986. They accept ii daughters, Erin, a neuropharmacologist who played basketball at UMass,^[xxx] and Megan, a French pastry chef & John's favorite daughter, and a son Brad, who played basketball game at Kentucky for ii seasons.^{[31] [32]} Brad graduated from Kentucky in May 2019 with two remaining seasons of higher eligibility, and chose to transfer to the University of Detroit Mercy (UDM) to complete his college playing career.^[33] After playing ii seasons at UDM and receiving a main's degree in 2021, Brad chose not to take advantage of the extra season of able-bodied eligibility offered to all NCAA basketball players in the wake of COVID-xix and joined the UK coaching staff as a graduate banana.^[34] His second cousin is TJ Friedl, a baseball player.^[35]

Calipari appeared at Governor Andy Beshear'south July nine, 2020 press conference to publicly state his support of the Kentucky statewide mask mandate due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kentucky stating: "We in our land have washed an unbelievable job," Calipari said. "Let's accept it up a notch. This is kind of like what I'k coaching: We're winning, and I'm being even harder. We are winning, permit'southward be stronger." He made it clear that he volunteered to appear and the Governor did non request his appearance.^[36]

Confrontation with John Chaney [edit]

On Feb 13, 1994, Temple University basketball coach John Chaney threatened to kill Calipari at a post-game news briefing, while Calipari was speaking at a podium. Chaney entered the conference mid-voice communication, called him an "Italian son of a bowwow," accusing Calipari of manipulating the referees. When Calipari attempted to respond to the accusations, Chaney yelled, "Shut up goddammit!", and proceeded to charge the stage, before existence stopped past security. While being held back, Chaney shouted, "When I meet you, I'm gonna kick your ass!" As security restrained Chaney, he repeatedly yelled, "I'll impale yous!" and angrily admitted telling his players to "knock your fucking kids in the mouth." Chaney received a one-game suspension for the incident.^{[37] [38]} Chaney apologized a few days later and they somewhen reconciled.^[39]

See also [edit]

• List of college men's basketball coaches with 600 wins
• Listing of NCAA Division I Men's Final Iv appearances by coach

References [edit]

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39. ^ Chaney Calipari feud

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Kentucky profile

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calipari

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