Don’t expect Jim Calhoun and John Calipari to go out for drinks at Nick and Stef’s Steakhouse adjacent to Madison Square Garden after their teams meet Wednesday night in the SEC/Big East Invitational.The two men have a history that dates back to the late ’80s and early ’90s, when Calipari was a brash young coach at UMass trying to wrest supremacy of New England from the older, more established Calhoun at UConn.
“John came in from Moon Township in Pennsylvania and he said that UMass was the King of New England, that their program was King of New England,” said Calhoun, whose No. 14 Huskies (6-1) face No. 4 Kentucky (8-0) in the second game of a doubleheader that also features St. John’s and Georgia.
