In celebration of Coach K’s last season, the three other head coaches in the Champions Classic teamed up to give Duke’s coach a parting gift from Kentucky, Kansas, and Michigan State. It was a bottle of 23-year Pappy Van Winkle bourbon, one of the hardest-to-find bourbons in the wild.
John Calipari acquired the bourbon per Bill Self’s suggestion, and together the three coaches were to split the tab. They did not split the tab, Calipari said after the game, because Self and Tom Izzo have yet to pay up.
“They didn’t chip in, just so you know,” Calipari noted.