John Calipari Final Fours. Calipari has six career Final Four appearances, four of which have come at Kentucky — in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015.
During his reign as head coach for the Kentucky Wildcats, John Calipari has amassed one of the strongest coaching resumes in the game. With four final four appearances during his 10-year career at ...
Coaches with vacated Final Four appearances due to NCAA violations are marked with an * next to the year. The listed Final Four totals for those coaches do not include the vacated appearances. Coaches with names in bold are active with a team that they took to a Final Four.; Coaches with names in bold italics are active in NCAA Division I, but are not currently coaching a team that they took ...
Calipari has coached Kentucky to four Final Fours, in 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2015. Advertisement. A “players-first” coach with a penchant for helping people reach their dreams, John Calipari, a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer, has guided six teams to the Final Four, led one to a national championship, and helped 56 players earn ...
UMass went 146-26 over Calipari's final five seasons, reaching the Final Four in 1996 with Marcus Camby. The Minutemen were ranked as high as No. 1 in the AP Poll in each of Calipari's final two ...
Two Final Four appearances. Two Final Four appearances wiped out of the NCAA record books forever. ESPN has reported that John Calipari’s Memphis team will have to “vacate” ...
The 2015 Final Four is where everything changed for the Kentucky program. Wisconsin stunned Kentucky with a 71-64 upset and complaints over Calipari’s lineups and style of play began to merge to the forefront. The stunning loss marked the final time John Calipari would appear in a Final Four as the head coach of Kentucky.
John Calipari’s Final Four record. Calipari has led six runs to the final four, in 1996, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015. But he has only won one NCAA Championship out of his six Final Four ...
John Calipari career at Kentucky. In Calipari’s first six seasons at Kentucky, his Wildcats reached four Final Fours, two national title games and won the 2012 NCAA Championship.
He took the Wildcats to the Final Four on four separate occasions, leading the program to a National Championship in the 2011-12 season. Here's a look at Kentucky's year-by-year record under Calipari.
4- John Calipari, Kentucky. All four of John Calipari’s Final Four appearances, which are still in good standing with the NCAA, came during his time at Kentucky. The three-time Naismith College Coach of the Year first went in 2011. The following year his 38-2 team won the national title.
Two years ago, Calipari raised eyebrows -- and a few hackles in Kentucky -- when he called the 2010 NBA draft the best day in school history. A record five of his players were picked up in the ...
During Calipari’s first 14 seasons at UK, he has led all coaches in NCAA Tournament wins (32), Final Fours (four), Elite Eights (seven) and Sweet 16s (eight). In 2015, Coach Cal led college basketball’s first-ever 38-0 team and became one of just three coaches to make four Final Fours in a five-year span.
John Calipari (born February 10, 1959) ... Went to four Final Fours from 2011-2015, winning the NCAA Championship in 2012 with a 38-2 (16-0) overall record; Compiled an overall record of 410-123 with the Wildcats, but won just one total NCAA Tournament game in his last five seasons;
Well, Calipari isn’t too far behind, with six Final Four appearances. He took UMass there in 1996, Memphis in 2008, and Kentucky in 2011, ’12, ’14 and the next consecutive year. And yes, he brought home the National title in 2012 with Kentucky. But here’s the twist—some of their Final Four appearances were vacated due to NCAA infractions.
John Calipari won an NCAA national championship with the University of Kentucky in 2012 and was named Naismith Coach of the Year three times (1996, 2008, and 2015). He also led the University of Massachusetts and the University of Memphis to the Final Four in 1996 and 2008, respectively. However, both those appearances were invalidated by the ...
Before John Calipari coached Arkansas, he took Kentucky to the 2015 Men's Final Four, where he signed a statement against anti-gay discrimination. | Nelson Chenault-Imagn Images
In his first season following his departure from Kentucky, John Calipari had his No. 10 seed Arkansas Razorbacks as surprisingly one of the biggest Cinderella stories of the 2025 NCAA Tournament.