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Rick Pitino hopes Kentucky\u2019s fans take it easy on John Calipari in his return to Lexington on Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Pitino posted a video on X on Thursday on the matter and explained his reasoning behind it Friday as St. John\u2019s prepared to host Providence Saturday afternoon at the Garden.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think some fans will boo him, but what I was hoping for was that a majority will not boo him,\u201d said Pitino, who coached at Kentucky for eight seasons from 1989-97. \u201cI know why they booed me \u2014 because I was coaching at Louisville. That was a different scenario. John didn\u2019t want to leave Kentucky. Both parties knew it was time for him to move to a different job, and he did. He didn\u2019t want to leave. \u2026 When I went in there, it was one of the lowest points of my Louisville tenure. It was 23,000 people booing me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Calipari will return to Kentucky as the head coach at Arkansas. <\/p>\n
In 15 seasons, he led the Wildcats to a national championship and four Final Four berths. <\/p>\n
They are doing well without him under new coach and former Pitino player Mark Pope, ranked 12th in the country. <\/p>\n
Calipari, meanwhile, may not even reach the NCAA Tournament in his first season as the Razorbacks\u2019 coach. <\/p>\n
Arkansas is next-to-last in the loaded SEC and has dropped six of its last seven games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brady Dunlap\u2019s hopes of returning this season are over. <\/p>\n
After attempting to rehab his torn abdominal muscle, the sophomore sharpshooter will undergo surgery Thursday. <\/p>\n
He can begin working out a month later and start full basketball activities two months after that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, it\u2019s my dream to play on a top-15 team,\u201d Dunlap said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of why I came here in the first place, so it\u2019s pretty disappointing. But at the same time, I just have to look at it as positive from my personal perspective. I get another year in college with the medical redshirt. College is such an old game now, so I have to take it as a positive for myself and just cheer my guys on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Dunlap said he is hopeful to be back next season at St. John\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really up to Coach Pitino at this point,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dunlap, a former four-star recruit from Newhall, Calif., also missed time with a torn UCL in his left thumb that required surgery and initially sidelined him in mid-December.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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