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The 2011–12 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in the 2011–12 college basketball season. The team's head coach was John Calipari, who was in his third season after taking the Wildcats to their first Final Four in thirteen seasons. The team won the 2012 NCAA Championship, bringing Kentucky its ...
The 2012 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the finals of the 2012 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The game was played on April 2, 2012, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, and featured the ...
John Vincent Calipari ( / ˌkælɪˈpæri /; born February 10, 1959) 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.
There were zero NCAA Tournament wins in his only two seasons on the job, and the Wildcats were coming off a 2008-09 campaign that ended in the NIT, the first time UK had failed to make March ...
Calipari’s “one-and-done” recruiting style helped him achieve his crowning on-court moment at Kentucky: Winning the 2012 NCAA Tournament. That 2011-12 Kentucky team featured six players who ...
The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball program is the men's college basketball team of the University of Kentucky. It has eight NCAA championships, the best all-time winning percentage, and the most all-time victories. [ 2] The Wildcats compete in the Southeastern Conference and are coached by Mark Pope.
Only Kentucky in 2012 and Duke in 2015 have built freshman-dominated national championship teams. More recently, we’ve seen older teams rise to the top of the sport, teams with a couple of ...
As of March 31, 2013. Rankings from AP poll. The 2012–13 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in the 2012–13 college basketball season. The team's head coach was John Calipari, who was in his fourth season. They played their home games at Rupp Arena and were members of the Southeastern Conference.