John Calipari

John Calipari

Calipari in November 2014
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Arkansas
Conference	SEC
Record	2–1
Biographical details
Born	(1959-02-10) February 10, 1959 (age 65) Moon Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Playing career
1978–1980	UNC Wilmington
1980–1982	Clarion
Position(s)	Point guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1982–1985	Kansas (associate assistant)
1985–1988	Pittsburgh (assistant)
1988–1996	UMass
1996–1999	New Jersey Nets
1999–2000	Philadelphia 76ers (assistant)
2000–2009	Memphis
2009–2024	Kentucky
2024–present	Arkansas
Head coaching record
Overall	856–263 (.765) (college) 72–112 (.391) (NBA)
Tournaments	57–22* (NCAA tournament) 15–6 (NIT)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
NCAA Division I Tournament Champion (2012) 6× NCAA Regional Champion – Final Four (1996*, 2008*, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015) 6× SEC tournament champion (2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) 6× SEC regular season champion (2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020) 4× C-USA tournament champion (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) 5× C-USA regular season champion (2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) NIT Champion (2002) 5× A10 tournament (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996) 5× A10 regular season (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996) * Vacated by the NCAA
Awards
3× Naismith College Coach of the Year (1996, 2008, 2015) AP College Coach of the Year (2015) 3× NABC Coach of the Year (1996, 2009, 2015) 2× Basketball Times Coach of the Year (1996, 2015) 2× Adolph Rupp Cup (2010, 2015) Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year (2009) 4× SEC Coach of the Year (2010, 2012, 2015, 2020) 3× C-USA Coach of the Year (2006, 2008, 2009) 3× A10 Coach of the Year (1993, 1994, 1996)
Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2015 (profile)
Medal record Head Coach for  Dominican Republic Dominican Republic national team FIBA Americas Championship 2011 Mar del Plata Men's basketball Centrobasket 2012 Puerto Rico Men's basketball Marchand Cup 2011 Marchand Cup Men's basketball Head Coach for  United States United States men's national under-19 basketball team FIBA Under-19 World Cup 2017 Egypt National team

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. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times (1996, 2008, and 2015), and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.

He was previously the head coach at the University of Massachusetts from 1988 to 1996, the NBA's New Jersey Nets from 1996 to 1999, the University of Memphis from 2000 to 2009, and the University of Kentucky from 2009 to 2024. He was the head coach of the Dominican Republic national team in the summers of 2011 and 2012, as well as the United States men's national under-19 basketball team in July 2017.

Calipari coached Kentucky to four Final Fours, in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015. He also led UMass and Memphis to the Final Four in 1996 and 2008 respectively; those appearances were later vacated, though Calipari was cleared of wrongdoing in both cases.^[1] As a college coach, Calipari has twenty-nine 20-win seasons, eleven 30-win seasons, and five 35-win seasons.

As of April 2024, with 856 official wins, Calipari ranks 9th on the NCAA Division I all-time winningest coaches list.