John Calipari went into the Tennessee game two victories shy of tying Joe B. Hall as the second-winningest Kentucky coach. But there’s another former UK coach who should be part of this story.
Rick Pitino and Calipari have almost identical winning percentages as UK coaches. You have to go to the right of the decimal point — likely to a hundredths or thousandths of a percentage point in another week or so — to separate their rates of victory.
Pitino, who was UK coach from 1989-90 through 1996-97, had a record of 219-50.