Kentucky Wildcats head coach John Calipari will receive the John R. Wooden Award Legends of Coaching honor in 2024, the school announced Tuesday.
Calipari will be presented with the honor along with the 2024 Wooden Award winners on April 12th, 2024.
The Legends of Coaching Award was adopted by the Wooden Award Steering Committee in 1999. The honorees are selected based on character, success on the court, graduation rate of student-athletes in their basketball program, coaching philosophy, and identification with the goals of the John R. Wooden Award.
“To receive an honor in John Wooden’s name is really special to me because he not only is the greatest coach of all time, but because of the relationship I developed with his family over the years,” Calipari said in a press release.