
J.P. Prince let us in on a little secret late Friday afternoon. Looking ahead to the Tennessee-Kentucky semifinal in the SEC Tournament, Prince suggested that we’ve got it all wrong about Bruce Pearl and John Calipari, the opposing coaches. “They’re best friends,” UT senior Prince said with a mischievous smile. “They talk all the time. They have lunch together. Y’all just don’t know it.” Nobody went for the pump fake. We know better. Pearl and Calipari approach each other with equal parts distrust and disdain.