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Kansas kept its comeback effort going with an Elijah Johnson three-pointer and Robinson making a pair of free throws, cutting their deficit to 62–57. Kentucky was able to hold on when Davis made a free throw, and Marquis Teague and Lamb each made a pair of free throws for a 67–59 victory. [15] Kentucky celebrating their 2012 NCAA Championship
2012 NCAA champions. The 2011–12 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in the 2011–12 college basketball season. The team's head coach was John Calipari, who was in his third season after taking the Wildcats to their first Final Four in thirteen seasons.
This was Calipari's first national championship in four trips to the Final Four, having previously gone there with Kentucky in 2011, Memphis in 2008 and Massachusetts in 1996. Upsets were once again the story of the tournament in 2012, and for the first time ever two #15 seeds won in the same tournament.
John Calipari’s time as the Kentucky basketball coach has come to an end. ... amassed an overall record of 410-123 and guided Kentucky to four Final Fours and the 2012 NCAA championship.
The top scorer for Kentucky in the 2012 NCAA title game — and one of the best 3-point shooters in program history — Lamb opted for the draft after that championship season and played a total ...
Calipari went 410-123 (.769) with the Wildcats, winning the national championship in 2012, finishing as the runner-up in 2014 and advancing to the Final Four on two other occasions (2011 and 2015).
By doing so, John Calipari became the 5th head coach to win an NCAA Championship at Kentucky (an NCAA record), and the first coach to do so at the school since Tubby Smith in 1998. Following the 2012 championship, UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart announced on May 4 that Calipari's contract had been renegotiated.
In the first nine NCAA tournaments in which John Calipari coached the Kentucky Wildcats, UK played 13 games against foes I would label as mid-major opponents.. Over those 13 contests, Kentucky ...