LEXINGTON, Ky. _ With Sunday's loss to Auburn in the Midwest Regional finals, John Calipari's 10th season as the head coach at the University of Kentucky came to an end.
This campaign came up an overtime defeat short of the final week of the college basketball season, but the UK coach's first 10 years in charge of the Wildcats program _ as a whole _ were still mighty impressive.
Calipari wraps up his first decade with four trips to the Final Four, seven Elite Eight appearances, and one national championship. During his tenure as UK's coach, he was inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame, and Calipari confirmed Monday that he had signed what amounts to a lifetime contract at Kentucky.
Not a bad run, so far, for a coach who took over a program that missed the NCAA Tournament the previous season, won zero tournament games the season before that, and hadn't advanced to a Final Four in the 11 seasons prior to his arrival.
Here's how Calipari's first 10 years match up with other current coaching greats at the schools that made them Hall of Famers:
