John Vincent Calipari 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 and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
How many Final Fours has John Calipari had?
Calipari has coached Kentucky to four Final Fours, in 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2015.
A “players-first” coach with a penchant for helping people reach their dreams, John Calipari, a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer, has guided six teams to the Final Four, led one to a national championship, and helped 56 players earn selection in the NBA Draft during his 30-year college coaching career.
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. As a college coach, Calipari has twenty-seven 20-win seasons, eleven 30-win seasons, and five 35-win seasons.