Thirty years ago today, John Calipari’s UMass team defeated Temple 56-55 in a matchup of top-15 teams jockeying for NCAA Tournament seeding, with Minutemen guard Mike Williams draining a shot ...

A generation of UMass fans don't remember when John Calipari coached the Minutemen. Since leaving UMass, Calipari’s coaching career has taken him to the NBA, Memphis, before finally bringing him ...

So Calipari, who is in his first season ... If the Hogs prevail, he’ll likely face Rick Pitino and St. John’s. Pitino’s Kentucky teams beat UMass in the 1992 Sweet Sixteen and the 1996 ...

Flint, just 30 years old at the time, was chosen as Calipari’s successor at UMass. “I’m going to be Bruiser Flint. I’m not going to try to be John Calipari,” Flint said then of the ...

Some of us had a lot of questions, like, can someone this young really coach us hard?" UMass hired John Calipari on April 26, 1988. He was 29-years old and had never been a head coach, coming off ...

CALIPARI: “They’re a team that’s going ... Jim Calhoun at Connecticut and John at UMass. You look at UConn today and say, of course, but back then, it wasn’t that way.

Though it’s been more than two decades since Ross Burns played under John Calipari on UMass’ 1996 “Refuse to Lose” Final Four team, the former walk-on still carries with him lots of ...

John Calipari and Rick Pitino are national champions ... while Calipari helped UMass, Memphis and Kentucky. Pitino won two national championships, in 1996 with Kentucky and 2013 with Louisville ...

Calipari led a UMass golden era during his eight seasons ... hitting the ground running with a 35-3 season in year one with John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins on the roster. By year three, Calipari ...

No. 2 seed St. John's faces No. 10 seed Arkansas ... including 13-10 in the college ranks. Calipari has wins over Pitino as the coach at UMass and Kentucky, as well as with the NBA's New Jersey ...