Rick Pitino familiar with John Calipari might…
Rick Pitino hopes Kentucky’s followers take it straightforward on John Calipari in his return to Lexington on Saturday evening.
Pitino posted a video on X on Thursday on the matter and defined his reasoning behind it Friday as St. John’s ready to host Providence Saturday afternoon on the Garden.
Rick Pitino gestures during the primary half of St. John’s win over Georgetown on Jan. 28, 2025. AP
“I think some fans will boo him, but what I was hoping for was that a majority will not boo him,” stated Pitino, who coached at Kentucky for eight seasons from 1989-97. “I know why they booed me — because I was coaching at Louisville. That was a different scenario. John didn’t want to leave Kentucky. Both parties knew it was time for him to move to a different job, and he did. He didn’t want to leave. … When I went in there, it was one of the lowest points of my Louisville tenure. It was 23,000 people booing me.”
Calipari will return to Kentucky as the pinnacle coach at Arkansas.
In 15 seasons, he led the Wildcats to a national championship and 4 Final Four berths.
They are doing properly with out him beneath new coach and former Pitino participant Mark Pope, ranked twelfth within the nation.
Calipari, in the meantime, could not even attain the NCAA Tournament in his first season because the Razorbacks’ coach.
Arkansas is next-to-last within the loaded SEC and has dropped six of its final seven video games.
John Calipari argues a call during the primary half of Arkansas’ 95-67 blowout win over North Carolina A&T on Dec. 21, 2024. Nelson Chenault-Imagn Images
Brady Dunlap’s hopes of returning this season are over.
After trying to rehab his torn stomach muscle, the sophomore sharpshooter will bear surgical procedure Thursday.
He can start understanding a month later and begin full basketball actions two months after that.
Brady Dunlap drives to the basket for a layup within the second half of St. John’s win over Hartford earlier within the season. Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images
“Obviously, it’s my dream to play on a top-15 team,” Dunlap stated. “It’s kind of why I came here in the first place, so it’s pretty disappointing. But at the same time, I just have to look at it as positive from my personal perspective. I get another year in college with the medical redshirt. College is such an old game now, so I have to take it as a positive for myself and just cheer my guys on.”
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Dunlap stated he’s hopeful to be back subsequent season at St. John’s.
“It’s really up to Coach Pitino at this point,” he stated.
Dunlap, a former four-star recruit from Newhall, Calif., additionally missed time with a torn UCL in his left thumb that required surgical procedure and initially sidelined him in mid-December.
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