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We should have expected nothing less from John Calipari.

He probably has the blood-spattered glass slipper on display in his office.

And, of course, by the time he is charged with her murder, he will have moved on to a different jurisdiction.

College sports are all about school pride.

So SportsPickle talked to famous alums from each school in the Sweet 16 to get their takes on their favorite teams.

Kentucky head coach John Calipari was stripped of the contents of his stomach and bowels this morning when some bad clams he ate at dinner last night suddenly hit him.

Despite the messy situation that ruined a pair of $1,200 suit pants and sent him running to the bathroom in the middle of a press conference, disgusting bodily fluids pooling behind him, Calipari claimed to be without fault in the events that led to the incident.

“I am surprised as anyone that this happened,” he said. “You go to some little Italian restaurant in upstate New York that has a notice in the window about failing code inspection and — how was I to know that I shouldn’t order the clams casino and demand that the clams be extra rare? I’m sorry this happened to the people I vomited on on the way to the bathroom. But I’m as much of a victim here as anyone. My reputation is at stake.”

While the restaurant will likely have to shut down and everyone around Calipari must wash off the stench of his vomit and feces, the coach himself will likely make out quite well in the end. He feels much better after vacating his bowels, is moving on to a different restaurant tonight — one of Syracuse’s best — and is set to earn a significant payday in a lawsuit against the restaurant whose food sickened him.

“I realize that a lot of people got hurt along the way in my wake — one guy actually slipped in my diarrhea in the hallway, fell and hurt his back,” said Calipari. “But I just want everyone to know that I am feeling great. Better than ever, actually. I can’t stop smiling.”

Calipari said he did his part by cleaning up the bathroom with some old UMass and Memphis apparel he had laying around.

Upsets dominated the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. But the true result was much more grave than some dashed title hopes, as it is now being reported that Adam Randolph, a college basketball researcher and bracketologist for CBS Sports, sadly took his own life Sunday by jumping from a 10th story window of the CBS Building in Manhattan.

Like many bracketologists, Randolph invested heavily in highly seeded teams and chose top-ranked Kansas to win the championship.In a tournament that still includes an 11-seed, a 12-seed Ivy League school and Northern Iowa, a school that many have never heard of, several bracket experts have seen their reputations take a hit. According to sources, Randolph seemed very upset following the Jayhawks’ loss to Northern Iowa, saying “My brackets are totally f—ked,” and “There’s no way I can win now. It’s all over. I have nothing.”

The timeline of events that led to the tragedy are still coming together. But those who saw Randolph in the hours before his fateful leap say he looked haggard and distressed. At 6:41 p.m. Sunday night, the doorman to the CBS Building went outside after hearing a loud thud, only to discover Randolph’s body. The doorman quickly informed Randolph’s family, who rushed to the spot as soon as the extremely close Texas A&M-Purdue game was over.

Police found a note in his pocket which said that he committed suicide because he unable to live with his “stupid” tournament decisions, including picking Notre Dame to win their first-round game and putting No. 2 seed Villanova, who had been slumping late in the season, in the Final Four.He was found dressed in his favorite Kansas home jersey and was holding a large foam finger and a framed copy of his bracket from 2009, when he had correctly picked North Carolina to win the title. He signed his note with the phrase, “This is not awesome, baby.”

Randolph’s parents say they are absolutely devastated.

“How does something like this happen?” asked his father, Michael Randolph, a clinical psychologist in Pennsylvania. “Kansas was supposed to be the best team in the tournament.”

Kentucky head coach John Calipari is one of the most successful coaches in college basketball. He is also one of the most controversial, having fled NCAA sanctions at both UMass and Memphis for higher-paying jobs elsewhere.

What can we learn about this man through pictures?

Ali Farokhmanesh of the Northern Iowa Panthers knocked No. 1 overall seed Kansas out of the NCAA Tournament with a late three-pointer in their second round matchup.

Who is this guy? Here are some facts about Ali Farokhmanesh.

Ali Fredrick Farokhmanesh was born April 16, 1988 in Pullman, Washington. Farokhmanesh hoped to be born in a better place, but he was undersized and not highly regarded in utero and got a poor seed.

Farokhmanesh’s father, Mashallah Farokhmanesh, played for the Iranian national volleyball team and had a 42-inch vertical jump. Mashallah was best known by his playing name, “The Flyin’ Shiek”.

Mashallah and Ali’s mother, Cindy Fredrick, coached college volleyball together at Washington State and Iowa after meeting at a volleyball camp.Ali says he still has nightmares about the time he went into his parents’ bedroom because his mother was yelling “Bump! Set! Spike!”, only to discover they were not playing volleyball.

After an all-state senior season at Iowa City West High School, Farokhmanesh played a year of basketball at both Indian Hills and Kirkwood junior colleges before getting a scholarship offer from Northern Iowa.As you may have learned in recent days, Northern Iowa is not a junior college. Who knew.

In his first year at Northern Iowa last season, Farokhmanesh averaged 9.6 points and then improved to 9.7 points this season. At that pace, Farokhmanesh would have to play 73 more years to average the 17 points he scored in Northern Iowa’s upset of Kansas. Or he could just play a season in the Big 12.

Farokhmanesh is a marketing major at Northern Iowa. His senior thesis? Convince anyone to come to Cedar Falls, Iowa. Anyone at all.

Farokhmanesh is listed at 6’0”, 190 pounds, but he stands closer to 5’9”. The three-inch difference meant Farokhmanesh was not recruited coming out of high school, and it also makes Kansas’ lost to Northern Iowa three inches more hilarious.