NEW ORLEANS – They're not at each other's throats. Kentucky coach John Calipari insisted just the other day that, this time of year, rivalries mean nothing.
But he and Louisville's Rick Pitino managed to trade a few jabs Friday on the eve of their Final Four showdown in New Orleans' Superdome.
- Pitino, when asked about Calipari's characterization of a Louisville defense that he said, among other things, employs biting, scratching, clawing and gouging: "He think the referees read the newspapers. He thinks the referees stay up at night and listen to Coach Cal's comments. They really don't."
- Pitino again, on an observation Calipari was supposed to have made before the season about Kentucky being a one-program state: "Every now and then, you're going to say something that's not correct. ... John has only been in this state three years so he doesn't know the magnitude of Louisville basketball – for that matter, the history."
- Calipari in response: "I didn't say that. ... What I sad was we have a ton of Kentucky fans in Louisville. It's just a unique place; I've never seen anything like it. There was no disrespect."
The two coaches are meeting for the 17th time – going 8-8 – dating to the 1991-92 season, when Calipari was at Massachusetts and Pitino at Kentucky. Calipari and the Wildcats have swept three regular-season meetings the past three seasons.
Calipari on the two of them taping a segment for sports talk host Jim Rome's new show on CBS: "The table was flipped over, and people were rolling around. I'm not going to say more, and I'll let you guys watch it."
This time, he was smiling.
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