St. John’s basketball coach Rick Pitino posted a video on social media Thursday asking Kentucky fans to give John Calipari a standing ovation when the former UK coach brings Arkansas to Rupp ...

Rick Pitino returned to Rupp Arena to face UK in 2001. John Calipari will face Kentucky basketball in Lexington next. How ...

Once upon a season, Rick Pitino saved Kentucky basketball from ruin, a reality shamefully ignored by Big Blue Nation for nearly 30 years before, at the behest of new coach Mark Pope, it put aside ...

Rick Pitino asked Kentucky fans to show love to former head coach John Calipari when he leads Arkansas into Rupp Arena on ...

Rick Pitino hopes Kentucky’s fans take it easy on John Calipari in his return to Lexington on Saturday night. Pitino posted a video on X on Thursday on the matter and explained his reasoning ...

St. John’s coach Rick Pitino sent a somewhat surprising message to Kentucky fans on Thursday about the upcoming return of John Calipari to Lexington. Calipari, now head coach at Arkansas ...

Rick Pitino wants Kentucky to treat John Calipari like one of their own when he returns this week. Calipari will return to Rupp Arena for the first time since he left Kentucky to become the head ...

Rick Pitino has asked a favor of Big Blue Nation with John Calipari -- the former Kentucky coach now at Arkansas-- returning to Rupp Arena this weekend. His request: don't boo the coach who once ...

Rick Pitino knows how John Calipari might feel when the former Kentucky coach returns to Lexington on Saturday as Arkansas visits the 12th-ranked Wildcats. Pitino's first visit there -- and many ...

Rick Pitino, of all people, posted a video message to social media encouraging Big Blue Nation to treat Calipari with “respect and admiration” when the former longtime Kentucky coach brings ...

Checking in from Cal to Welch Mark Pope played for Pitino for three seasons at Kentucky. He doesn't recall speaking with his former coach prior to the 2001 matchup. "Because I was probably pretty ...