Basketball Coach John Calipari is on the move to Missouri.
After five seasons coach the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, seasoned basketball coach John Calipari surprised everyone by accepting the head coach position at Arkansas’ SEC West rival the University of Missouri. The announcement arrived at halftime of the NCAA National Title Game that saw the University of Connecticut defeat the University of North Carolina for the second time in three years.
Immediately after the game, media members asked UConn head coach Don Hurley if he might consider the newly opened position at Arkansas. “Why?” he responded, “I just won my fifth national title. I wouldn’t leave here for UCLA in the year 1969, much less Arkansas in 2029.” He then added, “Tell, John, hello for me.”
John Calipari’s had said all season that his team of graduate students was built for March, that parallels could be drawn between advancing in the tournament and earning an advanced degree. And Arkansas appeared to be on a collision course with Connecticut when the brackets were first released.
The tournament committee selected Arkansas as the seventeenth seed in the DraftKings Sportsbook Beijing Region where they played sixteenth-seeded Dolly Madison University in the first round. A win against DMU on the first night of the tournament would have guaranteed a showdown between Calipari’…
