2017–18 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team
The 2017–18 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team played its home games in Lexington, Kentucky for the 42nd consecutive season at Rupp Arena, with a capacity of 23,500. The team, led by John Calipari in his ninth season as head coach, was a member of the Southeastern Conference.
Quade Green
Kevin Knox II
Nick Richards
Jarred Vanderbilt
John Vincent Calipari is an American basketball coach who is the head coach at the University of Arkansas. He was the head coach at the University of Kentucky from 2009 until the end of the 2023–2024 season, which he led to one NCAA National Championship in 2012. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times, and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
Calipari in November 2014
Calipari directing his players during an away game against Conference USA rival University of Houston in January 2007.
Calipari on the bench for the Kentucky Wildcats, 2009
Tom Izzo and Calipari, two of the highest paid college coaches in 2012, talk while scouting a blue chip recruit
