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
Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball
The Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball team represents the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas in NCAA Division I men's basketball competition. The team competes in the Southeastern Conference and is coached by John Calipari. Arkansas plays its home games in Bud Walton Arena on the University of Arkansas campus. The Razorbacks are a top-twenty-five program all-time by winning percentage (.641), top-twenty program by NCAA tournament games played, top-twenty program by NCAA Tournament games won, top-fifteen program by Final Four appearances, and despite playing significantly fewer seasons than most programs in major conferences, top-thirty by all-time wins. Under the coaching leadership of Nolan Richardson, the Hogs won the national championship in 1994, defeating Duke, and appeared in the championship game the following year, finishing as runner-up to UCLA. The Razorbacks have made six NCAA Final Four appearances.
The 1926–27 Razorbacks
John Adams was an All-American in 1941 and one of the first players to use the jump shot.
Eugene Lambert circa 1947.
George Kok was an All-American in 1948.
