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Kentucky AD criticizes NCAA Tournament committee over seeding, transparency

Kentucky coach John Calipari went on ESPN and had quite the colorful reaction to being awarded a No. 4-seed in the NCAA Tournament hours after winning the SEC Tournament.

Calipari made the case that his Wildcats should have been seeded just as high, if not higher, than Texas A&M, which received a No. 3 seed after losing to Kentucky in the SEC championship game.

Now Calipari’s boss, athletic director Mitch Barnhart, joined the choir alongside his coach.

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“I agree with and fully support our coach,” Barnhart said in a letter posted by Kentucky.