John Calipari Biography

University of Arkansas head basketball coach John Calipari is a master of modern-day college basketball. Calipari has taken three different schools to the Final Four. With Kentucky, he won the 2012 NCAA Championship and led the Wildcats to four Final Fours. 

Calipari is a three-time National Coach of the Year and has won eight Coach of the Year awards in various conferences. He is widely considered the greatest coach in the history of the University of Memphis program and took the Tigers to the national championship game in 2008.  

Calipari rose to prominence as a coach by winning five straight Atlantic-10 titles at UMASS. He even tried his hand in the NBA, coaching the New Jersey Nets for three seasons and advancing to the playoffs once. 

As an ace recruiter in the age of one and done players in college basketball, Calipari has sent a litany of players to the NBA. Eight of his former assistants have become college head coaches. Calipari began his coaching career as an assistant at Kansas and Pittsburgh.  He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015. 

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