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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
A huge weight was lifted off John Calipari’s shoulders this past season when he finally captured his elusive National Championship. And it was probably Cal’s best coaching job. While he did have loads of talent, many of them were underclassmen and he was the man responsible for getting them to ...
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
Kentucky hadn't even won the national championship game Monday night and coach John Calipari was already hearing the rumors that after they did win he'd head to the NBA. When the Wildcats did pull it off, winning Calipari his first title and the program's eighth overall, those rumors only escalated.
Calipari ...
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
When John Calipari arrived in Kentucky he had one goal in mind and that was to bring the Kentucky basketball program back to prominence and compete for National Championships. Mission accomplished. After falling short a few times recently, this year belonged to the Wildcats. They were the best team in ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
The biggest stage in college basketball is set for tonight when Kentucky will take on Kansas for the national championship. The nation's best player, however, is doing his best to treat it like any other game. Anthony Davis says he and the Wildcats are preaching that they need to simply ...
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Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Denny Crum has seen plenty of fantastic college basketball players come through over the last 50 years. He was an assistant at UCLA where he helped coach guys like Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton. He coached at Louisville from 1971 until 2001 and led the Cardinals to two national championships.
All ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Last year the Connecticut Huskies won the Big East Tournament and rode that wave of momentum all the way to a National Championship. This year another Big East power, the Louisville Cardinals, are looking to do the same thing. Thanks to a great coaching job by Rick Pitino and a ...
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
It doesn't get any better than John Calipari vs. Rick Pitino in the Final Four. The Wildcats have done their part cruising through the South Bracket while the Cardinals battled through the West bracket fighting their way into the National Semifinals.
The matchup puts two state rivals against each other for ...
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Friday, February 24th, 2012
At one point this season, Rick Pitino had himself a top-five team. The Louisville Cardinals opened the season with a 12-0 run, but they're 9-7 since then, including a loss at Cincinnati last night. All of those games have come in Big East play except a 69-62 loss to Kentucky ...
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012
There is a new number one team in college basketball. After Syracuse lost this weekend without Fab Melo, on the road against Notre Dame, it opened the door for John Calipari’s young Kentucky Wildcats return to the top of college basketball. While the young ‘Cats have had a number of ...
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
The reaction at Assembly Hall when Christian Watford hit his last-second 3-pointer was pretty awesome. With the Indiana Hoosiers dropping the No. 1 team in the country in that fashion, it was pure pandemonium. At least for everyone but Tom Crean. The Hoosiers coach had an equally memorable reaction, but ...
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