Proventise, RI – You may feel that the tan is within Amica Muteal Pavilion on Wednesday. This was not a typical media day before the first round matches in the NCAA championship, with many national media on hand, cameras everywhere, and a lot of anticipation of the characters who were going in the interview room.
When Purdue’s Matt Painter holds the fourth largest winning for the main coach list at the NCAA Championship, you must tell you everything you need to know.
Rick Betino. John Calibari. Self -bil.
All the three legendary coaches are not only in Provence. It coincides with the same pod in the first round of the NCAA championship. This is a combined victory 2,593, 103 years of experience in training, five national championships, 17 trips to the last four prizes and countless prizes.
When the self is Jayhawks Calibari Razorbacks Square Off at 7:10 pm East time on Thursday in a West match in the seventh round against 10, will keep their third meeting ever in the NCAA Championship. Previous? The 2008 National Championship game, which was won by Mario Chalmers and Kondas, and the 2012 national title game, Doron Lamb and Wildcats won by giving Calipari Redemption.
It is clear that this meeting is not at the level of these, but this should not take away what should be an exciting competition. Jayhawks entered the season first in opinion polls, but the SELF group is struggling with the 11-9 brand disappointment in the Big 12 Play game and the transmission portal category that did not start to the level of expectations in Lawrence.
On the other hand, Arkansas started 0-5 in the Supreme Education Council and it seemed to be absent from the NCAA championship. However, the Calipari team moved in a seasoned season due to injuries to win five of its seven matches leading to the big dance.
The winner is likely to meet in the face of Self and Calipari St. John To the first explicit championship from Big East for the normal season since 1985, in the year of Lou Carneseca, Johnnies took the fourth final. The Pitino’s St. John in the Big East Conference for the first time in a quarter of a century, supported by the country’s highest defense.
All three brought a different point of view to the table on Wednesday, with both Calipari, saying they believed this match.
“I somewhat expected it. I expected my team in practice. That’s because I did that!
Although he was not the normal season he was hoping for, Calipari said that he was grinding to make the large dance refreshing in some sense because of the difficulty of his team’s fighter during the most important time in the year. However, Calipari did not retreat on Wednesday when he was asked about his emotions during the Selection Sunday show.
“Do you want me to tell you exactly?” Calibari request. “It has reached the last four teams and we were not yet. We entered. Then I started breathing.
This “drama” includes the fact that Betino, who was in Kentucky from 1989-1997, and Calibari, who was in Lexington from 2009-24 and met him in Luisville against Kentucky, for eight years, bitter competitors and went to each other during some legendary seasons in the blue competition.
The self hopes to help Jayhawks, who is usually the team in the lighting of the NCAA championship.
“I am not looking at it just as some other people do,” Silv said when asked about Caliapri and Razorbacks. “I said a week ago that he would be Arkansas. I said,” You are watching, we will play Arkansas. “
“I had no idea about the identity of the signs, but I think it is good for us. I think, and I do not know positively, there will be a small story with Kansas and Arkansas, but the possibility of talking about Calibari in the second round, and we may look forward to some extent, and we may look forward to it to some extent. Clearing to someone.”
The match between Jayhawks and Razorbacks stimulates two teams sitting in the twenty places on Kenpom’s defensive efficiency plans against each other.
Pigs can use a great performance of a great NCAA championship Gonel DavisWho helped lead Florida Atlantic to the last four years ago, along with the elderly Trevon BrazilWhich reached a total of 15 points and 11 rebounds in three of the last four games.
As for those who need to escalate for Jayhawks, SELF has not lost any time when his answer is mentioned.
“We need Hunter Dickenson To play a big game, Silf said, “When he plays well, everything else enters its place.”
Senior 7 feet were transferred from Michigan to Kansas to follow a national championship. While an average of 17.6 points and 10 counterattacks per game in the shooting by 53 % of the floor, this season was never related to the accumulation of numbers. For Digkinson’s legacy in Kansas, it is now or at all.
These two teams met at a charitable exhibition in October, when Razorbacks seized the jayhawks team that was reduced at the time, 85-69.
“Well, they took control of us at the exhibition,” Silf said. Hunter [Dickinson] He did not play. Rylan [Griffen] He did not play. Shakeel [Moore] He did not play. If I am not wrong, Jonas Edo He did not play for them. Nelly [Davis] It was not in good health yet, although he played. They offer many challenges because they are athletes and they launch the ball more stable now, and they have shown that when they are good, they are good like anyone else. ”
While the back between Calipari and Self was happening, with self -status there can distract Arkansas, Pitino will not recognize compete with coach Cal.
Betino said when asked about the first NCAA match in 1983: “There is only one coach that I considered a competitor in my entire career, and I have been trained against Frank McGoyer in his last match, while he was also training against Dean Smith.” “The only person I had a strong competition with, and today I respect him as much as anyone in the game is Jim Callaun. We hated each other in Bu and NortheAStern … We hated each other. There were 300 people in each square.
“He goes to the coach in Connecticut. Keep training in Provence, and we hated each other there too. Today, I don’t think I respect any coach like Jim Calhun. If we look back, it was funny at that stage of Bu versus northstern.”
While he mentioned Calibari for him When Saint John described, not naming his opponent by name or team, Betino deviated when asked about the drama surrounding its four -team graphics in the western region.
“This does not really matter. They are great coaches, but I am only concerned about Omaha because this team … will be the first-ranked first-ranking goalkeeper in the Great East.” I have topped the headlines of the garbage box after the strange games. “They have a public player on Power Forward. I am only excited about being here regardless of the training. I don’t care. I am very worried about the talent we face.”
Yes, the stage was appointed. The release of university coaches from the successful “White Lotus” program between hotels in downtown Provence. We know one thing: there is great vanity, loss of love. The possibility of Saturday night has no limits. Currently, it is subjective versus Calibari on Thursday night.
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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