"What I can tell our fans, I felt there were a couple (players) that wanted to end this and I didn't fight them much," Calipari told Tom Leach on his postgame program from IMG Sports. "I'm proud of how we fought hard to get back in the game, but we shouldn't be in this position."
"This is a humbling experience for me in a lot of ways and believe me I tried everything from dodge ball to everything to try to connect and I didn't," Calipari said.
"The biggest lesson you have is you've got to have competition, we've got to have more players, you can't do it and then you get hijacked by a player or two. You get hijacked, because you think you have to play them and you don't have a choice, and then you accept what they want to give you, surrender, and now the program is -- you can't do it.
You could tell their players didn't want to be there.