John Calipari and NCAA Trophy – photo by David J. Phillip | AP
If you’re Vito Montelli, you can hang up on John Calipari and live to laugh about it. In fact, you can do much more than that, like inviting the newly crowned NCAA champion at Kentucky to come speak at your annual postseason banquet. That’s exactly what Montelli, the 50-year boys basketball coach at St. Joseph, did. And when Calipari arrived at Vazzano’s Four Seasons Wednesday night to honor the Cadets’ 2012 Class LL boys basketball championship, Montelli told the gathered crowd — which included Trumbull First Selectman Tim Herbst, Five Star basketball camp guru Howard Garfinkel and CBS/Sports Illustrated’s Seth Davis – how he hung up on the Wildcats’ coach on the eve of their national semifinal against Louisville in March.
