Best Of Arkansas Sports · 23m
Silverfield’s Replacement Playing with Fire If He Thinks He Can Beat Calipari At Own Game
On Wednesday night, Arkansas basketball coach John Calipari enjoyed his 907th career win against a school that plays a huge role in why he fell in love with the sport in the first place.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Moon Township, Pa., native grew up so close to Robert Morris University that later he joked he could hit the campus with two 5-iron golf shots from his house.
Calipari spent countless summer time days playing basketball on Robert Morris courts, taking advantage of a hook-up when it came to refueling at lunch thanks to two RMU employees: his grandmother and Aunt Mary Bell.