John Calipari
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"1" NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship/NCAA Division I Tournament Championship (2012)

"3" NCAA Men's Division I Final Four appearances by coaches/NCAA Regional Championships – Final Four (1996*, 2008*, 2011, 2012, 2014)

"3" Conference USA/C-USA Tournament Championships (2006, 2007, 2008*, 2009)

"4" C-USA Regular Season Championships (2004, 2006, 2007, 2008*, 2009)

"1" National Invitation Tournament/NIT Championship (2002 National Invitation Tournament/2002)

"5" Atlantic-10 Conference/A-10 Tournament Championships (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996)

"5" A-10 Regular Season Championships (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996)

"2" Southeastern Conference/SEC Regular Season Championships (2010, 2012)

"2" SEC Tournament Championships (2010, 2011)

"Accomplishments"

"2" NCAA Championship Games (2008*, 2012, 2014)

"7" Elite Eights (1995, 1996*, 2006, 2007, 2008*, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014)

"9" Sweet Sixteens (1992, 1995, 1996*, 2006, 2007, 2008*, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014)

*vacated

/ awards = "2" Naismith College Coach of the Year (1996, 2008)

"2" NABC Coach of the Year (1996, 2009)

"1" Basketball Times/Basketball Times Coach of the Year (1996)

"1" Sports Illustrated/Sports Illustrated Coach of the Year (2009)

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We were up 10 and they went to the zone and we didn't respond well. They are very active but you've got to drive the ball in there and we didn't do that.

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For a while there in the second half, we played not to lose instead of playing to win. We had a chance to lose the game, but we won it, and we will move on.

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We're going down to their building and it's probably the biggest event since the hurricane that's going on around there. It's going to be nutty, absolutely nutty.

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My first thought was for him to go overseas, make $5 or $6 million over his career, then come home and do whatever he wants. But he chose the unconventional way, the NBDL, which is hard. But he did it.

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He made runners, he made them when they bumped him, he made them inside. He rebounded the ball. He did a fairly good job of defending. We (isolated) him about 10 straight times, and about nine of them, we got something good; either he scored or got somebody else something.

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The thing I'm most pleased with was I thought you saw an intensity level and an effort level that we haven't had for a couple of weeks. Second of all, there were things we prepared to do, and we executed them. ... It was some good stuff.

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Anytime we take that many threes, we're not winning.

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We created some turnovers and that's why we had a 20-point lead. Today we were ready to go so they never really had a chance.

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It's a good win against a team that was 9-1. If we don't beat somebody by 40, everybody is saying, 'What's going on with the Tigers?' They have scholarships too. They came out and had a game plan on how they were going to play, but they turned it over 19 times.

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