RealClearSports: This Time, Calipari Wins Last One

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

NEW ORLEANS -- This time, Cal won the last one. This time, Cal won the big one. This time, there would be no missed free throw near the end, no missed chances, no pointed criticism that while John Calipari can recruit and can change jobs, he can't win the game that matters.

Because the game Kentucky won Monday night, beating overmatched but courageous Kansas 67-59, mattered perhaps more than any in which 53-year-old John Calipari had ever been involved.

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RealClearSports: Davis Makes Semifinal His Stage

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

NEW ORLEANS -- The kid is better than everyone thinks he is, so good that a coach who knows was willing to mention Anthony Davis in the same sentence as the nonpareil of defense, Bill Russell.

Rick Pitino has seen a great deal, won a great deal, and when he's impressed, it is time to take even greater notice of Davis than has been taken. Not that the accolades haven't swarmed Davis, who won the John Wooden Award.

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