The Latest Breaking News from John Calipari

Forget tanking. With a breakout star, the Thunder are thinking playoffs.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — As a rule, John Calipari downplays the annual SEC men’s basketball tournament. Deems it unnecessary. Claims it rarely changes seeding for the Big Dance. Says it’s primarily for the fans. The Kentucky coach always says his team will try to bring home the trophy, of course, but…

Headline then: Has John Calipari at Kentucky run its course?

You do it. You figure this team out. You tell me how this Kentucky team can lose at home to South Carolina and then beat Tennessee on the road. You tell me how Kentucky can look so bad one Saturday against Georgia, then look so good the next in sweeping…

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A few days into his new gig — and just a few minutes into Kentucky’s most important basketball game of the season — Tyler Ulis was all in.

As Kentucky fan frustration has mounted in what has become a UK men’s basketball season of discontent, one often hears a variation on the same theme:

After Kentucky’s 75-68 loss at Georgia on Saturday, UK head coach John Calipari sarcastically mentioned he was sure it would be noted the Cats were without injured players Sahvir Wheeler and CJ Fredrick.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Back in the summer, when John Calipari hypothesized over what coaching challenges he would face with the 2022-23 Kentucky Wildcats, one the UK head man surely never considered would be his needing to justify keeping Oscar Tshiebwe on the court.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — At this point, we’ve seen enough of this Kentucky men’s basketball team to know it is what it is, a team that continues to come up small in big games.