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Icon for www.msn.comMSN · Feb 1, 2025

Why did John Calipari leave Kentucky? Explaining the Big Blue debacle

This article was originally published on fansided.com as Why did John Calipari leave Kentucky? Explaining the Big Blue debacle.
Icon for 247sports.com247Sports.com · Apr 10, 2024

John Calipari's wife posts emotional goodbye to Kentucky fans after Arkansas announcement

Ellen Calipari, the wife of new Arkansas basketball coach John ... I hope we leave behind a lasting legacy. We will miss a lot of things about Lexington and the University of Kentucky and we ...
USA TODAY · 19d

Kentucky basketball's Mark Pope embraces transfer portal in move away from John Calipari era

The age of the diaper dandy is over. The time of the transfer has come, and Kentucky coach Mark Pope is willing to play the game John Calipari wasn't.
Athlon Sports on MSN.com · 11d

John Calipari Linked to Former Four-Star Transferring From Kentucky

Coming off a landmark high school career, guard Travis Perry joined the Kentucky Wildcats in 2024 as a four-star recruit, per 247Sports. Turning down offers from Cincinnati, Missouri, Ole Miss and Michigan, Perry ultimately decided to stay home, growing up in Eddyville, Ky., just a short drive from Lexington.
Icon for www.si.comSports Illustrated · 28d

Second Calipari Kentucky-era Transfer Leaves Razorbacks

Arkansas coach John Calipari will have to fill the shoes ... He leaves the program after spending one year at Arkansas, following Calipari from Kentucky. The Pittsburgh native spent his first ...
Icon for athlonsports.comAthlon Sports · Apr 8, 2024

Kentucky Basketball Gets a Bailout as Hogs Call John Calipari

John Calipari ... leaving for Arkansas with his tail between his legs. The cockiest man in college basketball tacitly admitted he can’t fix what he built up and then broke at Kentucky.
Icon for awfulannouncing.comAwful Announcing · Feb 4, 2025

Exclusive: John Calipari docuseries shows his locker room speeches in homecoming win at Kentucky

On Saturday, former Kentucky Wildcats’ men’s basketball coach John Calipari returned to Rupp ... They score one at the rim, do not leave your feet. The longer this game goes, the longer ...
Icon for www.sportskeeda.comSportskeeda · Mar 25, 2025

When $110 million worth John Wall spoke about wanting to transfer from Kentucky due to John Calipari's intense practice sessions

During the 2023 segment of "Run Your Race," Wall revealed why he opted to join the recruitment guru, John ... to Calipari's host of first-rounders that he developed at Kentucky before leaving ...
Icon for 247sports.com247Sports.com · Mar 22, 2024

Stay, Go, Hello: Roster outlook for Kentucky in 2024-25

The 2023-24 season ended in yet another early exit for John Calipari and Kentucky. What's the Wildcats ... He needs a lot more strength, but did show some mobility and touch.
Icon for www.aol.comAOL · Mar 27, 2025

John Calipari getting Arkansas to Sweet 16 is a middle finger to all who questioned him

If you talk to enough people who were close enough to the truth, which isn’t easy when it comes to John Calipari ... That reality is why Calipari had to leave Kentucky in the first place.
Icon for www.cbssports.comCBSSports.com · 14d

Kentucky basketball roster 2025-26: Tracking who's in, who's out heading into Year 2 of the Mark Pope era

1.5 Quaintance originally committed to Kentucky to play for John Calipari but backed off that pledge after the former UK coach took the vacant job at Arkansas last offseason. The former No. 9 ...
Icon for athlonsports.comAthlon Sports · Feb 3, 2025

Arkansas Stuns No. 12 Kentucky in Coach Calipari’s Return to Rupp Arena

the Arkansas Razorbacks secured a crucial upset over No. 12 Kentucky, winning 89-79 in a dramatic showdown at Rupp Arena on Saturday night. This marked head coach John Calipari’s return to ...
Icon for www.azcentral.comAZ Central · 20d

Kentucky basketball's Mark Pope embraces transfer portal in move away from John Calipari era

The time of the transfer has come, and Mark Pope is willing to play the game John Calipari wasn't ... He could sign them, and so he did. Calipari’s Kentucky rosters were the envy of college ...
Icon for sports.yahoo.comYahoo! Sports · 20d

Kentucky basketball's Mark Pope embraces transfer portal in move away from John Calipari era

John Calipari ... assembly. Calipari felt shackled to his approach of allocating roster spots to the nation’s finest freshmen. He could sign them, and so he did. Calipari’s Kentucky rosters ...