John Calipari

John Vincent Calipari (born February 10, 1959) is an American basketball coach. He has been the head coach of the University of Kentucky men's team since 2009, winning the NCAA Championship in 2012. Calipari has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015. Prior to coaching at Kentucky, he was the head coach at the University of Massachusetts, the NBA's New Jersey Nets, and the University of Memphis. Calipari has led Kentucky to four Final Fours and has a successful record of twenty-eight 20-win seasons, eleven 30-win seasons, and five 35-win seasons.