How does Kentucky men's basketball Coach John Calipari thank the officials?
By giving three of them a trip to the Bahamas.
The three officials -- brothers John and Brett Hampton, and Bart Lenox -- will travel to the Bahamas this week to work four of Kentucky's games.
Kentucky calls on the referees, who live near Lexington, to work scrimmages, practices, the Blue-White Game and preseason exhibitions.
"It's really nice of UK to do this for us," John Hampton told the Lexington Herald-Leader. "Cal really likes to have real referees when they scrimmage instead of an assistant coach or a manager.