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Joey Dorsey had to work to keep his emotions in check. Now, he keeps hearing how far basketball can take him - if he'll play with more emotion. Dick Vitale lectured the kid last week about playing harder. John Calipari has announced that his Memphis team won't go far in March without some ferocity from the 6-foot-9, 260-pound freshman. Gary Williams is reminding Maryland to keep Dorsey's wide body off the glass tomorrow night, when the Terps meet the Tigers in the Basketball Hall of Fame Tip-Off Classic in Springfield, Mass.

Kentucky coach John Calipari doesn't agree with Bobby Knight that college basketball lacks integrity or that he is proof there is a problem. Calipari refused to get into a war of words Friday when asked about the pointed criticism from Knight that Calipari's continued employment proves the game has a problem. Instead, Calipari said he remains a "big fan" of the former Texas Tech and Indiana head coach. "I don't agree with what he says, but it doesn't change how I feel about him," Calipari said.

Good morning --N.C. State basketball -- So you couldn't lure Rick Barnes or John Calipari away. Just stay away from Brenda Frese.

The number 63 Career games Xavier's David West has had double figures in points and rebounds. He said it "You looked like a bum. Why did you do that?" John Calipari, Memphis coach, to John Grice after Grice received a technical Wednesday for a slashing gesture across his throat during an upset of Louisville

Combining Maryland's seventh-place finish in the Atlantic Coast Conference last season and the recent decision by 7-foot-1 sophomore center Alex Len to leave early for the NBA, most figured that the Terps would not get a marquee matchup in next season's ACC-Big Ten Challenge. There was also some speculation that Maryland's departure from the ACC after next season for the Big Ten might make the Terps a candidate for exclusion - something that had not happened to Maryland in the first 14 years of the series.

Games lost yesterday: 5.Total games missed: 53.Earliest estimated date that season can start: Dec. 8.Negotiations: Nothing scheduled. Union's negotiating committee meets tomorrow in New York.Projected player salary losses (through Dec. 8): $208 million.Today's best canceled game: New Jersey at Chicago. Rematch of first-round playoff matchup in which Michael Jordan stared down Nets coach John Calipari in the clinching Game 3.Pub Date: 11/10/98

Don Markus, reporter Kansas 71, Kentucky 69: There are some coaches who are destined not to win a national championship. Not saying that John Calipari is the Guy V. Lewis of his generation, but Bill Self coached a less talented Jayhawks  team over Calipari and Derrick Rose-led Memphis to win it all in 2008. It's going to happen again.  Chris Korman, content editor Kentucky 67, Kansas 55: This Wildcats team is no different than most of the teams John Calipari has led to the Final Four.

PHILADELPHIA -- John Chaney and John Calipari got along just fine last night. They shook hands before and after the game, and hugged for the minicams before the tip-off.Things weren't quite as cordial on the court at McGonigle Hall, where No. 8 Temple and No. 11 Massachusetts, the cream of the Atlantic 10 Conference, spent two hours trying to take off each other's heads.Calipari's Minutemen needed Mike Williams' 22-foot three-pointer off the glass with eight seconds left to escape with a 51-50 victory over Chaney's Owls.

Since coming home from the Maui Classic, Maryland had feasted on two teams from the nonscholarship Patriot League and two from Baltimore. The Terps' average margin of victory during that recent four-game stand at Cole Field House exceeded 38 points.Massachusetts' competition has been considerably stiffer. It opened with a 24-point blitz of Arkansas, the defending national champion. A week later, it lost to Kansas, another of the nation's premier programs, in the John Wooden Classic in Los Angeles.

What becomes apparent during the NCAA tournament is that there is an abundance of outstanding basketball talent in the United States, from California to North Carolina, Michigan to Texas. Each bench has an abundance of coaching acumen as well. So why hasn't this embarrassment of riches translated into international success? Why are we wondering if a team of NBA millionaires can do better than third place in a tournament in which most of the competition is playing for love of country and a modest stipend?