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posted 11-08-2017 11:09 AM
John Calipari | ninth season 249-53
College basketball needs John Calipari. Love him or hate him, he exists because of what college basketball has become. When Calipari rose through the ranks to take the UMass job, the Minutemen hadn’t played in an NCAA tournament since 1962, and hadn’t had a winning record since a 15-12 record during the 1977-78 campaign. Cal took the job in 1988 and had UMass in the Sweet 16 by 1992. They finished the season ranked inside the top 20. Cal took over an awful program and went to the Final Four. After an unsuccessful run in the NBA he went to Memphis, which was a good basketball program fallen on some tough years. He had Memphis as a national powerhouse within a few years with two Elite 8 appearances, and a National Championship runner up. Then the brass at Kentucky gave him the greatest resources you can ask for as a college coach and all he’s done is win 82% of his games with four Final Four appearances and a National Championship.
For all the credit he gets as a recruiter, Cal is also a very undervalued basketball coach who gets elite talent to buy in defensively and play together to win a lot of games.
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