Expect Nick Saban to get back on top before John Calipari

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    There was a time when it appeared that John Calipari was going to do to SEC basketball what Nick Saban was doing to SEC football.

    Grab it by the throat and refuse to let it go.

    Calipari woke up the echoes of Kentucky basketball the way Saban had with Alabama football, recruiting the best players in the country, winning championships with them and sending them along to the pros.

    From the time Calipari arrived in Lexington to give SEC basketball a lightning rod similar to Saban in football in Tuscaloosa, it was as if they were playing a little two-man game of Can You Top This?

    Saban started it with SEC and BCS titles in 2009. Calipari finished that academic year in 2010 with SEC regular-season and tournament titles.

    Read more http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/03/expect_nick_saban_to_get_back.html#incart_m-rpt-2
     

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