who is the coach of university of kentucky basketball
John Calipari John Vincent Calipari
title: John Calipari text: Final Four standing vacated after Marcus Camby was ruled ineligible due to his contact with a sports agent. Overall record with vacated wins is 720–204 (.779) John Calipari John Vincent Calipari (born February 10, 1959) is an American basketball coach. Since 2009, he has been the head coach of the University of Kentucky men's team, with whom he won the NCAA Championship in 2012. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times (in 1996, 2008 and 2015), and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015. He was previously the head coach at the University title: Leonard Hamilton text: Kentucky teams that finished as the NCAA runner up in 1975, won the 1978 NCAA Championship and went to the 1984 Final Four. Hamilton was named ACC Coach of the Year on March 10, 2009, and a second time in 2012. Hamilton is the first coach to be named coach of the year in both the Big East and ACC. In 2018 he was named the Clarence "Big House" Gaines National Coach of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Leonard Hamilton James Leonard Hamilton (born August 4, 1948) is an American basketball coach and the current men's basketball title: Kentucky Wildcats text: 1951 and 1958. The Wildcats later won a fifth championship under Joe B. Hall in 1978, another in 1996 under Rick Pitino, in 1998 under Orlando "Tubby" Smith, and its most recent in 2012 under Coach John Calipari. Calipari has been the coach since the 2009–10 season. In 2007, the university unveiled the Joe Craft Center, a $30 million state-of-the-art basketball practice facility for both the men's and women's teams. Considered to be an elite NCAA basketball program, the University of Kentucky men's basketball team is the winningest program in the history of college basketball. The team was the first title: Matthew Mitchell (basketball) text: 11th in 1983 and the highest final ranking in the coaches' poll in school history. He was named SEC Coach of the Year for the second time in three seasons by the AP. Mitchell attended Mississippi State University from 1993 to 1995, where he received a bachelor of science degree in marketing. He is married to the former Jenna Ramsey, from Amelia Island, and he has three daughters, Lacy, Saylor and Presley Blue. Matthew Mitchell (basketball) Matthew LaMont Mitchell (born December 16, 1970) is an American college basketball coach, currently head coach for University of Kentucky women's basketball. Mitchell became title: John Calipari text: John Calipari John Vincent Calipari (born February 10, 1959) is an American basketball coach. Since 2009, he has been the head coach of the University of Kentucky men's team, with whom he won the NCAA Championship in 2012. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times (in 1996, 2008 and 2015), and was inducted into the 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 and the University of Memphis from 2000 to 2009, and was