Cal in the post-season

Cal in the post-season

Herald-Leader Staff Report
SPORTS BKC-MEMPHIS-UCLA 145 CH
Jeff Siner / MCT
John Calipari instructed his Memphis Tigers against UCLA in the national semifinals in San Antonio on April 5, 2008. Memphis beat the Bruins but lost to Kansas in the finals.



Calipari: By the numbers

NCAA Tournament appearances: 11

NCAA Tournament record: 25-11

NCAA Final Fours: Two (x-1996, y-2008)

NCAA championships: Zero

NIT appearances: Five

NIT record: 15-5

NIT semifinals: Three (1990-91, 2000-01, 2004-05)

NIT championships: One (2001-02)

x-Calipari took UMass to the 1996 Final Four, but that appearance was later stricken from the record books because star center Marcus Camby accepted money from an agent.

y-Calipari took Memphis to the 2008 finals, but the NCAA has ordered that appearance vacated as punishment for using an ineligible player, Derrick Rose. Memphis has appealed the ruling.

John Calipari leads Kentucky into NCAA Tournament play for the first time this week, but the 51-year-old coach is a battle-tested veteran on the road to the Final Four.

Calipari has yet to win an NCAA championship, but his teams have been to the Final Four, have been victimized by early-round upsets and have seen all the hot shooters, scrappy defenses, ups, downs and drama the Big Dance traditionally delivers.

Here is a closer look at how Calipari has fared year-by-year in the post-season as a college head coach:

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