NCAA Basketball: Who won the week in college basketball? Summer Edition 2

We have another Winner of the Week in NCAA basketball. This time it comes from the SEC.

It’s the summer, so figuring out which player, or team, or mascot, or fan base, or conference, or commissioner, or Plumlee won the week is a little more difficult than it is once November rolls around.

But even in the off-season, there are still a plethora of winners in college basketball if you know where to look. So I took it upon myself to dive deep into collegiate news feeds, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Vine and Snapchat in hopes of giving the Busting Brackets faithful what they want.

Every week we will choose one thing that won the week. At the end of the off-season, we’ll have a tournament/vote to figure out who/what in college basketball won the summer.

Last week Nigel Hayes didn’t just win the week, he Stone Cold Stunned it.

This week we feature a masterful promoter/coach.

I often ask myself somewhere in between 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. — of which my office has creatively labeled as “The Worst Hour of the Day” — if I was a soon-to-be senior in high school, what college program/coach would I commit to the minute he showed up at my house?

This, of course, is a convoluted and tricky question.

There are so many parameters that you have to sort out in your head: Where am I in the recruit rankings? Am I a Top-10, 6’6″ small forward with amazing leaping ability and a soft touch from long distance?

Am I hulking center with long arms and solid foot work on both ends of the floor and impeccable timing when it comes to blocking shots?

Am I a likable internet sensation with half a million views on my YouTube page because of some sick dunk edits with no real position in either college basketball or the NBA?

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Are my dreams to go professional after one year of basket weaving classes? Am I a four year guy, a la Denzel Valentine?

Do I need money to help out my family or is the scholarship actually enough?

Or am I just a 5’11” point guard with poor handles that enjoys driving his friends/teammates crazy because I pretend I’m some sort of hybrid crossover between Kris Jenkins and Steph Curry (which I absolutely am, by the way)?

While all of those questions take me down different, unexplored paths, almost every single time I still find myself arriving in Lexington, Kentucky.

That’s right. I am a proud, unabashed, John Calipari-guy.

And I’m not sure how others aren’t? I mean the dude is such a master recruiter/promoter/hype man that he even has a gridlock on my hypothetical dream recruits, let alone every single players in whatever websites Top-100 you choose to look at.

How is this possible? Is the movie Inception actually based off of Calipari’s recruiting tactics? Does he have some sort of weird device that he hooks up at all of his pitch meetings that allows him and Drake to infiltrate the minds of the recruit, his mom, his dad, his sister, his grandmother, his cousin, his girlfriend and his dog’s subconscious?

It has to be the case, right? How else could someone have this much control on both reality and make believe?

Buzz Williams better get his #MondayMotivations and #WednesdayWisdom tweets up if he plans on competing with that on the ol’ recruiting trail:

💡 When we talk "to" each other more than we talk "about" each other we will become more...#MondayMotivation #LCFC pic.twitter.com/Yo6DJyrNNs
— Buzz Williams (@TeamCoachBuzz) July 11, 2016

'Body Language' Screams!

...It never whispers#WednesdayWisdom #getBETTER pic.twitter.com/aw3Op4jEg2
— Buzz Williams (@TeamCoachBuzz) June 29, 2016

But in all seriousness, there is something that needs to be said (even though it’s probably already been said before) about Calipari’s innate ability to always stay fresh. To stay on our minds. To stay “in” the news. He’s always on. He’s always watching. Reading. Blogging. Beefing. Sub/Tweeting to his 1.5 million Twitter followers.

He just stays winning.

He’s the ultimate cheerleader. The ultimate agent. The ultimate hot take specialist. The hero we need. The hero we — as a college basketball community — deserve.

Take this week for example, when Calipari took to his iPhone and started blasting out characters about how to fix college basketball:

Everything in our game trickles down. Watching games this weekend and see that every close out to a jump shooter results in a foul.
— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) July 10, 2016

It's obvious we are teaching this. There should be NO CONTACT TO THE BODY THROUGHOUT THE SHOT. Elbow, wrist tap, stomach tap, etc.
— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) July 10, 2016

You want scoring to go up? Automatic foul if the shooter is touched before his feet hit the floor. This my next mission.
— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) July 10, 2016

Or when he got his Scott Boras on:

How about @DrewRoc5 tonight?! 23 points, four rebounds and four assists. Floor general who deserves an opportunity in the league.
— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) July 9, 2016

So happy for @DrewRoc5. He's worked so hard to earn his new deal with the Grizzlies. He'll be in the league for a long time.
— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) July 10, 2016

Jamal Murray went for 29 tonight!! I stand by my statement that he will be the top scoring rookie this year.
— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) July 12, 2016

I’m not saying Coach Cal had a hand in Andrew Harrison getting that contract, but he absolutely had a hand in Harrison getting that contract.

He continues to find ways — even in the doldrums of the summer — to make sure that “Coach Cal” and “Kentucky” are synonymous with “winning”, “recruiting”, “NBA” and “money”.

And at the end of the day, isn’t that what every big time recruit wants?

Isn’t that what every big time recruit thinks about?

Next: Top point guards in the class of 2017

And because of that Coach Cal didn’t just win this week. He wins every day of every week.

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