Though they downplayed the animosity, the coaches also noted that they are not friends. Earlier in the week, Calipari waxed ...

Or a hallucination. Advertisement Rick Pitino, coaching the St. John’s Red Storm, and John Calipari, coaching the Arkansas Razorbacks, will go head-to-head for the 24th time in a college game.

John Calipari was at a crossroads. Stay at Kentucky or go to Arkansas? He went to Las Vegas and got his answer from a Northeast Philadelphia priest. Calipari spent part of Final Four week last year in ...

John's Rick Pitino vs. Arkansas' John Calipari. This is the 30th meeting between two of basketball’s most well-known coaches. St. John's nabbed a No. 2 seed in the 2025 March Madness bracket ...

John Calipari’s daughter, Megan Calipari, endured an emotional turbulence during Arkansas’ first-round NCAA Tournament game against Kansas. As the Razorbacks battled their way to a stunning 79 ...

John Calipari’s nearest and dearest breathed a collective sigh of relief Saturday when he coached his Arkansas Razorbacks into the Sweet 16 of this year’s NCAA tournament. As time expired in ...

which concluded yet another bout between legendary college coaches John Calipari and Rick Pitino. The two coaches have been going at it for years at various spots, most notably when Calipari was ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — John Calipari is back in the Sweet 16 for the first time in six years. After early NCAA Tournament exits defined the final years of his long tenure at Kentucky, the first-year ...

Arkansas basketball's John Calipari gets real on non-friendship with Rick PitinoHayden Cilley · 16 hours ago Arkansas coach John Calipari drops massive Adou Thiero update ahead of Sweet 16Russell ...

Rick Pitino wasn’t interested in hyping up his marquee matchup with John Calipari. Sure, the Hall of Fame coaches have traded haymakers throughout their many basketball battles over the past ...

But Pitino's resurgence, first at Iona and then the past two years at St. John's, and Calipari's revival at Arkansas this year has set up a whale of a round of 32 matchup. No. 2 seed St.