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John Calipari hilariously fires back when Zvonimir Ivisic asks where Providence is

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Arkansas F Zvonimir Ivisic
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Zvonimir Ivisic, a Croatian native, has spent the past year and a half playing college basketball in the United States. That has him still learning where he is in the country, including, funny enough, where he’ll be this week during Arkansas’ appearance in the NCAA Tournament.

The Razorbacks learned they’ll be in the regional in Providence, Rhode Island as part of the West Region of the bracket during Selection Sunday. The only problem was Ivisic wasn’t exactly sure where Providence is.

“So we’ll practice tomorrow, Tuesday and then we travel to Providence. Probably a two-hour flight, maybe a little bit longer because you’re up in there,” John Calipari said to his team in the clip from Hogs Plus.

“Where is that? Where is it?” Ivisic interjected in asking.

Again, it’s a fairly funny moment for Ivisic as he still learns about different places in the U.S.. It then got even better with Calipari’s response to him.

“In the United States,” Calipari joked as those at his house watching the show with the team laughed.

That was just one clip on content shared from the Calipari house yesterday afternoon. It was an exciting event too with the ‘Hogs, who were once pretty outside the field early on in conference play, earning a No. 10 seed after winning nine of their final fifteen to be at 20-13 overall.

“There is no given on this day. So, I’m hoping we’re in, okay. I don’t care the seed, who we play and my guess is you don’t either. Let’s just get in and do what we do,” Calipari said before the reveal. “It has been, for me, an unbelievable ride because you guys never quit. You just keep fighting every game we play and, if we do that in this next couple weeks, you’re going to find out, like, holy cow, we are as good as anybody in the country.”

“Let me just say, you don’t worry about anybody else except us. We got that little pod in Providence,” Calipari said after the selection. “(Kansas) is good. But, you know what? So are we.”

Arkansas will play No. 7 Kansas on Thursday night with the winner likely to play No. 2 St. John’s on Saturday. That gives the Razorbacks a few to days to prepare themselves – or, in Ivisic’s case, familiarize himself with the capital of the smallest state in this country.