Every non-conference game was scheduled to make us better and impress the committee, not some, all. Chaney did not. Calipari’s rise was meteoric, his teams were enthralling and the rivalries he cultivated were heated, particularly with John Chaney’s Temple teams of that era. He received a one-game suspension, which is roughly 19 games fewer than what he'd get if this happened today. In his 33 years as a college basketball coach, Chaney racked up 741 wins and earned a spot in the Basketball Hall of Fame.

His Owls, ranked seventh in the nation, were playing Michigan State, ranked fifth, last Friday night. Despite futile attempts and the pleas of many calling for his dismissal after the embarrassing "Goongate" incident against Saint Joseph's Feb. 2

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And on Feb. 13, 1994, 25 years ago today, they did. His teams won the Atlantic 10 regular season championship eight times, while winning the A-10 Tournament six times. He was upset over Calipari haranguing the referees as they left the floor, "You've got a good ball club. With UMass — and Calipari — at the center of the college basketball universe, things were bound to kick off eventually. As a coach, he earned more than 700 wins in more than 1,000 games. But what you did with the officials out there is wrong, and I don't want to be a party to that. It really could be over this time. Temple University Hall of Fame basketball coach John Chaney retired March 13, 2006, after 24 years of leading one of the most successful college basketball programs in the nation. But try to watch the incident with fresh eyes.

"I don't care where I go, somebody hollers out at me 'I'm going to kill you. Digger Phelps was He has been married to Jeanne Dixon since 1953.

And for you to ride them, I don't want to be a party to that." Temple University Hall of Fame basketball coach John Chaney retired March 13, 2006, after 24 years of leading one of the most successful college basketball programs in the nation. Feb. 13, 1994, Temple coach John Chaney had to be pulled away from UMass's John Calipari following a Minutemen win. Head Coach John Chaney, also a Hall of Famer, won a total of 741 career games (312 losses) and took Temple to the NCAA tournament 17 times in 24 seasons with the Owls.

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Feb. 13, 1994, Temple coach John Chaney had to be pulled away from UMass's John Calipari following a Minutemen win. Since that 1994 blow-up, Calipari went on to become one of the premier coaches in the college game, finally winning his first national title in 2012. No good could come from this game, and Temple coach John Chaney knew it.

John Chaney was born on January 21, 1932 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. John Chaney's tenure as men's basketball head coach at Temple University could be coming to an end in the near future. You know this, and the images are part of our collective sports memory by now. Game day shootarounds – Coach would attend on the road, but only rarely at home. '"The great UMass-Temple rivalry is no more as of last year, thanks to the machinations of realignment—Temple is on the Island of Misfit Toys that is the American, while UMass stayed with the gutted remnants of the A-10. Seven months before that, one of Chaney's players called screaming: Jim Maloney, John's assistant coach for the previous 14 years, had died of a heart attack driving home from work.

Calipari played it cool. In the ensuing scrum, he promised to kick Calipari's ass and repeatedly yelled "I'll kill you." Temple was at home, in Philadelphia, at the Apollo, its year-old basketball cathedral, which was packed for the occasion.