“I’m anxious to see really where we are right now, [but] I wish we didn’t play this game the first game of the year,” Calipari said. “But I’ve said that before. Why don’t we have a couple of games under our belt before we do this? But, you know, everybody agreed to do it.”
Later in Sunday’s press conference, he took it a step further. Why isn’t the annual Champions Classic played over the summer as a way to promote the sport as a whole?
“That is the best way – in a dead month – to promote college basketball.