{"id":69252,"date":"2015-04-03T14:42:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T19:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=69252"},"modified":"2015-04-03T14:42:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T19:42:39","slug":"calipari-ap-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=69252","title":{"rendered":"Calipari, AP coach of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/caliparijohn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69254\" alt=\"caliparijohn\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/caliparijohn.jpg\" width=\"118\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a>INDIANAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; John Calipari, whose Kentucky team is the first in 24 years to reach the Final Four undefeated, has been selected The Associated Press&#8217; coach of the year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Wildcats were the talk of the college basketball this season in winning the Southeastern Conference regular season and tournament championships. They were ranked No. 1 the entire season and were a unanimous choice for 12 weeks.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Many thought Kentucky had so much talent that it would be hard to instill a team-first attitude. Calipari started the season with two five-man units he substituted in groups. It worked well enough that eight players in the rotation are averaging between 5.6 and 11.0 points a game.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Calipari is the third Kentucky coach to win the award, which started in 1967. Eddie Sutton won in 1986 and Tubby Smith in 2003.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Calipari received 40 votes Friday from the 65-member national media panel that picks the weekly Top 25.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tony Bennett of Virginia was second with nine votes while Mike Brey of Notre Dame got five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0INDIANAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; John Calipari, whose Kentucky team is the first in 24 years to reach the Final Four undefeated, has been selected The Associated Press&#8217; coach of the year. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Wildcats were the talk of the college basketball this season in winning the Southeastern Conference regular season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69257,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69252\/revisions\/69257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}