Reid Travis is the rare, fifth-year senior leader that John Calipari has never had at Kentucky. Travis is like a unicorn to the Kentucky program since Calipari took over ten years ago; he and Cal even talk politics and grown-up stuff outside of basketball.
And now that he has one of those unicorns — the “Old Head” among freshmen and sophomores — Calipari is open to finding more in the future.
“We took a grad student this year from a Power 5,” Cal said of the addition of Travis from Stanford. “It worked for us and him.