WholeHogSports · Aug 6, 2018
Calipari gives officials a Bahamas vacation
Kentucky head coach John Calipari talks to reporters during news conference at the NCAA men's college basketball tournament Friday, March 16, 2018, in Boise, Idaho. Kentucky faces Buffalo in a second-round game on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)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.