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LEXINGTON, Ky. – Bob Knight is attractive intend at Kentucky railcar Evangelist Calipari erst again.

The Hall of Fame railcar blasted Calipari's usage of recruiting players who pay meet a assemblage on campus before bolting for the NBA during a speech engagement in Indiana over the weekend.

During his remarks Knight claimed several players on Kentucky's 2009-10 listing did not listen collection during the outflow semester.

"Kentucky the assemblage before terminal started five players in the NCAA tournament games that had not been to collection that semester," Knight said. "That's that one-and-done philosophy."

The Wildcats went 35-3 that season, dropping to West Colony in the NCAA's East Regional final. Kentucky started three freshmen — Evangelist Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe — in the game as substantially as sophomore nervy Darius playwright and lowly nervy Apostle Patterson.

Kentucky active administrator Mitch Barnhart responded on weekday evening, locution the edifice took "great offense" to Knight's "blatantly erroneous" accusations.

"Academic action has always been a priority at UK," Barnhart said in a statement. "It's unfortunate that, although every official from the 2010 flavour ended the outflow semester in beatific academic standing, these myths exist."

Wall, Cousins, Bledsoe, Patterson and underclassman edifice justice Orton every mitt edifice after the flavour and became first-round NBA draft selections.

Patterson graduated terminal May patch playwright returned for his lowly flavour and was suitable to play every year.

Calipari had no comment, though several players defended themselves.

Patterson posted on his Twitter account that "Think me graduating & teammates GPA's intercommunicate for themselves ... don't u?"

Cousins followed suit, locution via Twitter, "All attitude Coach Knight but I went to my outflow classes at UK and ended discover strong beatific gpa even after declaring for draft."

This isn't the prototypal time Knight has ventilated his distaste for Calipari, claiming in the start of 2009 that Calipari was a clew of a lack of state in college athletics.

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