LEXINGTON, Ky. — For nearly four decades, John Calipari has seemed like a willing villain, a smug and slicked-back agitator of the college basketball establishment. The guy who in his mid-20s as ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — John Calipari looked upon the room and, hitting his audience with a dash of practiced humility, leveled with everyone. “I know people say, ‘He cares more about the kids ...

— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) January 29, 2021 "Coach Chaney and I fought every game we competed – as everyone knows, sometimes literally -- but in the end he was my friend.

"We never have given up on a game this year," Calipari told the SEC Network after the game. "We've lost some games, but these kids fight. That tells you we have great kids.

What started as a 94-foot game, with Calipari declaring in October that Kentucky was now a “speed team,” eventually eroded into a unit that was painful to watch the last month of the season.

John Calipari and the Arkansas Razorbacks find themselves in a predicament going into their last two games of the 2024-25 ...

John Calipari, who has now led four different programs to the Sweet 16, ... He likes having to fight his way out of a situation. I think he thrives that way. And I think we saw it here today." ...

John Calipari on the sideline during the first half against St. John’s on March 22, 2025. ... Let’s go fight like heck, play free and loose, [and] whatever happens, ...

The selection committee delivered a potential heavyweight fight in the west, as Rick Pitino, Bill Self and John Calipari are all in the same subregion.While Self is an elite coach in his own right ...

For stretches of his decorated 15-year run as Kentucky’s men’s basketball coach, there was a perception that John Calipari didn’t prioritize the SEC Tournament, something that didn’t exactly endear ...

He congratulated his archnemesis, John Calipari, and the Arkansas Razorbacks staff, ... He’s always relished a fight, and he had an old enemy to go after. It wasn’t always that way, though.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas coach John Calipari has started 4-0 in SEC play four seperate times, with the entire league looking at him as the frontrunner, ... but Calipari is up for the fight.