It’s time for a John Calipari classic.
It was 26 years ago today that former Temple head coach John Chaney threatened to kill John Calipari (then the head coach at UMass) following a game between the two coaches that resulted in Calipari earning a one-point victory over Chaney’s squad. It was one of the most bizarre episodes to ever go down in a postgame press conference.
It happened like this.
Calipari was the quickly ascending new face of the A-10 conference back in the early 1990s. He turned around a UMass program in just two years that had essentially been a basketball laughing stock for decades.