Kentucky.com has an article about the Lexington Herald Leader requesting the teams spring GPA.
While chastising the "local media" for seeking the grade-point averages of University of Kentucky sports teams, UK basketball coach John Calipari noted Wednesday that the men's basketball team had a 3.14 GPA for the spring semester of 2011. Calipari saluted the players for succeeding on the court and in the classroom in the 2010-11 school year.
"That is the TRUE philosophy we have at UK and it's one that I won't allow anyone to disparage or slander," Calipari said in a posting on his Web site, coachcal.com.
Earlier this spring, Hall of Fame Coach Bob Knight disparaged the academic achievements of so-called one-and-done players. He mistakenly said that UK's five starters in the 2010 NCAA Tournament did not attend a class in the spring semester.
Knight later apologized.
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