KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Already a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer, Kentucky men’s basketball head coach John Calipari will join another distinguished list when he’s awarded the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ Metropolitan Award at the Final Four in April.
Calipari has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the storied award and will join basketball legends John Wooden, Dean Smith and Phog Allen, among others, as winners of the award. Kentucky greats Adolph Rupp and C.M. Newton have won the award as well, in 1966 and 1995, respectively.
A complete list of past award winners can be found at nabc.