John Calipare and Rick Petino face each other for the fifth time in the NCAA, when St. John’s second-placed 10th round of the second round in the Western region face No. 10, along with a trip to sweets The 15th of Omaha seeds passed 83-53, and Arkansas in Providence, Rod Ayland, No. 7 of the 79-72 seeds to put one of the most attractive games of the second round in the memories of the recent championships.
Peterno became the only second coach (participating in Lon Crocker) to win at least one NCAA’s game in five different schools. Pidino is the only basketball coach in colleges that guides six different programs for the NCAA tournament. Calipari and Pinno are the only coach to bring three different teams to the finals.
The last time Calipare faced Petino at the NCAA in 2014 when Kentucky beat Luisville 74-69 on 16. Two years ago, Calipare and Kentucky beat Luisville 69-6
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Pidino beat Calipare twice in the NCAA tournament when he was coach of Kentucky and Calipare was at Sweet 16 in 1992 and four finals in 1996.
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After playing 0-5 in the first season of Calipara, Arkansas have scored 10 of their last 16 appearances. The Rayserbacks became the fourth team in the last 20 seasons to win a NCAA to win five consecutive defeats at the conference.
Rayerback is one win in the fourth sweet game of the past five years, while St. John has been looking for his first sweet season since