Russellville will be getting a very special visitor on Wednesday.

First-year University of Kentucky head basketball coach John Calipari will be making a stop in Logan County at the new UK Ag Extension Office located just off the 68/80 By-Pass.

This “meet and greet” event will begin at 2:30 p.m., with Calipari arriving at approximately 3 p.m.

Calipari will address the crowd, talk to fans, take photos and sign autographs for a limited time.

He is scheduled to be at Barnes & Noble in Bowling Green

at 5 pm to promote his new book “Bounce Back.”

After bringing the University of Massachusetts basketball program to national prominence in the ’90s and resurrecting the Memphis basketball program in the 2000s, John Calipari became the 22nd coach in UK history, and the seventh in the last 79 years.

In 1996, Calipari moved from UMass to the NBA after leading the Minutemen to the Final Four. For his efforts, Calipari was named Naismith National Coach of the Year. Calipari led the Tigers to the 2008 NCAA title game, and Memphis' 38 wins in 2007-08 made him the winningest coach for a single season in NCAA history. As a result, Calipari was named Naismith National Coach of the Year for a second time in his career. He is only the second coach to receive the honor multiple times since the award's inception in 1987. Duke's Mike Krzyzewski is the other to do so.

Calipari, the 2009 Sports Illustrated National Coach of the Year, led the Tigers to nine-straight 20-win campaigns and nine-consecutive postseason appearances, the only Memphis coach to do that. He posted 252 wins – 28 wins per season – as the Tigers' head coach, making him the winningest coach in school history.

Calipari's success began in his first season at Memphis, but it was the last four years that placed him in the NCAA and school record books. The Tigers' 147 wins the last four seasons made Calipari the winningest coach in a four-year span in NCAA Division I history. His 104 victories in the last three seasons are the second-most in NCAA Division I history over a three-year span.

He directed the Tigers to the top of both national polls in 2007-08, becoming the fifth coach in NCAA Division I history to take two different schools to the No. 1 ranking. Calipari led UMass to No. 1 in 1996. He joined Roy Williams, Ralph Miller, Frank McGuire and Eddie Sutton in that elite club.

The last four seasons, Calipari directed the Tigers to four-straight 30- win campaigns and is the first coach in NCAA Division I history to record four-straight 30-win ledgers.

The 50-year-old lettered two years at North Carolina-Wilmington before transferring to Clarion. He played point guard at Clarion during the 1981 and 1982 seasons, leading the team in assists and free throw percentage. The Eagles were ranked in the Division II Top 20 both years and participated in the 1981 NCAA Division II Tournament.

Calipari and his wife, Ellen, have two daughters, Erin Sue and Megan Rae, and a 12-year-old son, Bradley Vincent. Erin recently graduated from UMass and is now in her first year of grad school at Wake Forest, while Megan is a sophomore at UK.