Silver Waves Media has released their top 100 most influential people in college basketball and there are two connections to the Kentucky Wildcats.
UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart and head basketball coach John Calipari made the list.
MITCH BARNHART – KENTUCKY ATHLETIC DIRECTOR & NCAA SELECTION COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN
No one can argue that the NCAA Selection committee doesn’t hold many programs’ fates and many coaches’ job statuses in the palm of their hand each and every year. Mitch Barnhart, the Athletic Director at Kentucky for the last 18 years, is the man at the forefront of that responsibility.