PROVIDENCE — John Calipari has been in the NCAA Tournament enough times to know the selection committee often has either a sense of humor or a flair for creating games with subplots. So the first-year Arkansas coach assumed, given his somewhat acrimonious exit from Kentucky, that the Razorbacks would be headed there.

"I'm kind of back to my roots of being the underdog," Calipari said Wednesday at the Amica Mutual Pavilion, per ESPN's Mike Reiss. "This was one of those years that was so rewardi