When the Gonzaga Bulldogs come to Lexington to take on the Kentucky Wildcats at Rupp Arena on Saturday afternoon, it will be a reunion between two old friends and college basketball legends in coaches John Calipari and Mark Few.
Calipari spoke glowingly about Few during his weekly radio show on Wednesday, addressing his wild success at a small school in Spokane, Washington and how Few’s attitude mirrored his own when he used to coach at UMass and Memphis.
“Great friend,” Calipari said. “He’s just a good person. I mean he’s a great basketball coach, he’s a future Hall of Famer. He’ll be in the Hall of Fame. He’s done things that no other coach has done, the level of winning. And in the Final Four and in the NCAA Tournaments advancing and in getting players to the NBA and being at Gonzaga, which he just said ‘look we’re a major college. I don’t care about league.’ I remember talking that way when we were at UMass and Memphis. I didn’t care what anybody said about leagues or anything. We were a national program and that’s what he has done there.”