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John Calipari’s Revenge: Hall of Famer gets last laugh in return to Rupp Arena

Boos received it when he got out of the tunnel at RUPP ARNA. John Calibari, who led Kentucky to an unforgettable era of basketball with a national championship in 2012 and four four finals, returned to his former home for 15 years on Saturday evening.

An evening that started with the Famir Hall, which was exposed by the same people who were chanting for him once with the end of the roaming Calibari at the RUPP Arena in a familiar role: as a winner. He has the largest number of any coach’s victory in the building after all, with 235 coming on Saturday to change the season 89-79 Victory over Kentucky in the twelfth place.

For Calipari, the 65 -year -old night was laughing with Razorbacks who burned the net, firing 55.2 % of the land and 13 of 25 of the 3 -point scope against the very weak Kentucky defense that was missing Lamont Petler.

For Arkansas, this was a win to provide a season because Razorbacks was previously stuck in 1-7 in Quad 1 matches and was about 60 years. . Adou thero He scored 21 points and eight rebounds, but the difference for the Razorbacks team, which improved to only 2-6 in the SEC play was a transition that was believed to be a jewel, but it was thwarted: the former FAU star Gonel DavisWhich had 18 points.

For Kentucky, which entered Saturday with the top 10 pure classification, it is a 2 quad -loss, which can now see cats, previously in 3 line in Mike Decorece‘s Prediction expectationsDriving to 4 seeds.

But the story is Calipari, the Kentucky legend but fell into a bad blessing when he left for Arkansas last April. On Saturday, he made a statement that the pronunciation of his complete disappearance was premature, and reached one in the Big Blue Nation who turned to him.

What a moment to one of all the time in the history of the total basketball.

John Vanta is an anchor and national basketball writer in Fox Sports. It covers sport in a variety of capabilities, from connecting to the FS1 games to working as a major host on the Big East Digital Network to provide comments in the field of 68 media networks. Follow it in john_fanta.

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