The Big Blue Nation of South Central Kentucky got a rare opportunity to meet and greet Coach John Calipari in Cave City Monday night.

Wildcat fans lined up all the way around the Cave City Convention Center for the chance to meet the University of Kentucky men's basketball coach.

The book signing and rally raised money for local charities in Barren County.

Coach Calipari tells WBKO Wildcat fans are "crazy" and he loves it and the passion for the team is already greater than he could have ever built anywhere else.

"The term I would use for me is awesome, to see what this program means to the Commonwealth's team means to the people of the Commonwealth, it is awesome," says Coach John Calipari, University of Kentucky Basketball