John Calipari
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Calipari in 2014
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Kentucky |
| Conference | SEC |
| Record | 240–52 |
| Annual salary | $8 million + bonuses |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
February 10, 1959 Moon Township, Pennsylvania |
| Playing career | |
| 1978–1980 | UNC Wilmington |
| 1980–1982 | Clarion |
| Position(s) | Point guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1982–1985 | Kansas (assistant) |
| 1985–1988 | Pittsburgh (assistant) |
| 1988–1996 | UMass |
| 1996–1999 | New Jersey Nets |
| 1999–2000 | Philadelphia 76ers (assistant) |
| 2000–2009 | Memphis |
| 2009–present | Kentucky |
| International | |
| 2011–2012 | Dominican Republic national team |
| 2017- | Team USA U-19 |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 643–190 (college) 72–112 (NBA) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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NCAA Division I Tournament championship (2012) 6x NCAA Regional championships – Final Four (1996*, 2008*, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015) 3× C-USA Tournament championships (2006–2009) 4× C-USA regular season championships (2004, 2006–2009) NIT championship (2002) 5× A10 Tournament championships (1992–1996) 5× A10 regular season championships (1992–1996) 4× SEC regular season championships (2010, 2012, 2015, 2016) 4× SEC Tournament championships (2010, 2011, 2015, 2016) Accomplishments 3× NCAA Championship Games (2008*, 2012, 2014) 8× Elite Eight (1995, 1996*, 2006–2008*, 2010–2012, 2014, 2015) 10× Sweet Sixteen (1992, 1995, 1996*, 2006–2012, 2014, 2015) *vacated |
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| Awards | |
| 3× Naismith College Coach of the Year (1996, 2008, 2015) Associated Press Coach of the Year (2015) 3× NABC Coach of the Year (1996, 2009, 2015) Basketball Times Coach of the Year (1996) Sports Illustrated Coach of the Year (2009) 2× Adolph Rupp Cup (2010, 2015) 3× A10 Coach of the Year (1993, 1994, 1996) 3× C-USA Coach of the Year (2006, 2008, 2009) Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year (2009) 3× SEC Coach of the Year (2010, 2012, 2015) |
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Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2015 |
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John Vincent Calipari (born February 10, 1959) is an American college basketball coach. Since 2009, he has been the head coach at the University of Kentucky. Calipari was previously the head coach at the University of Memphis (2000–2009) and the University of Massachusetts (1988–1996). He was also the head coach of the National Basketball Association's New Jersey Nets (1996–1999) and the Dominican Republic national basketball team in 2011 and 2012.
Calipari has been to four Final Fours with Kentucky (2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015). He had previously led UMass in 1996 and Memphis in 2008 to the Final Four, but those appearances were later vacated; however, Calipari himself was not personally implicated by the NCAA in the Memphis case. Calipari is the only head coach to have Final Four appearances vacated at more than one school.
As a college coach, Calipari has 21 20-win seasons, eight 30-win seasons, and three 35-win seasons. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times (1996, 2008 and 2015) and led Kentucky to its eighth NCAA Championship in 2012, the only title of his career.
Calipari was born in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is of Italian descent.
Calipari lettered two years at UNC Wilmington before transferring to Clarion University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing. He played point guard at Clarion during the 1981 and 1982 seasons, leading the team in assists and free throw percentage.
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