Rick Pitino

Rick Pitino should be back in big time. Programs should be fighting to hire him | Opinion. Dan Wolken. USA TODAY.

Of all the jobs available this year, Georgetown is the one with the most potential to win a national championship. And so Georgetown seems poised to pass on a once-in-a-generation opportunity to immediately resuscitate its program by hiring one of the best to ever do it. And for others like Georgetown, which is reportedly not interested in Pitino, there’s going to be a reckoning when he has his next program in the top 10 relatively quickly. We all know what happened, and we also know that the NCAA has never pinned any of it on him directly. Whether you believe him or not, you don’t hire Pitino to fashion your program as a bastion of purity and ethics. But the potential rewards are almost infinite. John’s or someone else, there’s undoubtedly going to be a reward for making that determination. I wrote a column back in 2019 imploring UCLA to bring Pitino out of coaching purgatory in Greece. Over three seasons in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, he won 40 of 49 conference games and won the league’s automatic tournament bid twice. Eventually, UConn’s size and determination kicked in and snuffed out any chance of an upset. Rick Pitino should be back in big time. Programs should be fighting to hire him

Iona gave UConn its best shot, but UConn's best shot was better. Iona, the 13-seed in the West led by Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino, had an upset on its ...

St. John's has hired Iona head coach Rick Pitino to fill its coaching vacancy, per Big East legend John Fanta. The news comes just days after the school parted ...

John’s program that has reached the NCAA Tournament just four times since the turn of the century. However, his reputation took a tremendous hit as a series of scandals brought his 16-year tenure at Louisville to an end with his firing in 2017. The 70-year-old veteran has led three different programs to a combined seven Final Four appearances and picked up national championships in his stints at both Kentucky and Louisville.

Sources close to the program tell FOX Sports that the university plans to finalize a deal with the Hall of Famer in the coming days. It has been reported that ...

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Connecticut lived up to its No. 4 seed with a 87-63 win over No. 13 Iona, but the 2023 NCAA tournament first-round game was closer than the favorite likely…

Most still agree he has done an outstanding coaching job across three seasons with the Gaels, featuring two trips to the NCAA tournament. Adama Sanogo was a true force inside, finishing with 28 points and 13 rebounds, while the Gaels had no answer. Pitino already has a legendary resume across more than four decades in basketball.

Iona gave UConn a real scare for a half. Rick Pitino's Gaels led by two points through 20 minutes, and Huskies coach Dan Hurley was 20 minutes away from a ...

[Get the fastest scores, stats, news, LIVE videos, and more. "I really don't have an answer to it, to be honest with you," Pitino said when asked if this was his last game at Iona. The Hall of Fame coach has been reportedly connected to the St.

Iona gave UConn a real scare for a half. Rick Pitino's Gaels led 39-37 at the half, and Dan Hurley was 20 minutes away from a third-straight early NCAA ...

[Get the fastest scores, stats, news, LIVE videos, and more. "I really don't have an answer to it, to be honest with you," Pitino said when asked if this was his last game at Iona. The Hall of Fame coach has been reportedly connected to the St.

ALBANY – Let the Rick Pitino sweepstakes begin in earnest. The Hall of Fame coach, expected to leave Iona University after leading it to his second NCAA ...

Connecticut hit 10 of its first 14 shots to start the second half, and led by as many as 21. The two teams combined to go 13-for-27 on 3-point attempts and commit just eight turnovers. finished with 10 points for the Huskies. The industry-wide belief is that St. 4 Connecticut, 87-63, on Friday in front of 14,010 at MVP Arena. John’s is his likely destination.

Rick Pitino, who has been rumored as a coaching candidate for the vacant job at St. John's, was noncommittal about his future after Iona was eliminated from ...

He also coached in the NBA with the Knicks and Celtics and for two seasons in Greece at Panathinaikos. "The present is where we're at right now and it's disappointing for my guys because they're a great group of kids," Pitino said. Pitino said he doesn't know. Pitino then acknowledged the conversations around the St. Perhaps he meant in its current form, because Pitino then launched into a story about coaching against legendary St. "You don't just buy a house." Before he arrived at the podium for his postgame news conference here, Pitino walked through the hallways of MVP Arena. On Thursday, Pitino said he would consider coaching for another decade. He later talked about being exonerated in the He and Hurley embraced, and he told Hurley, "Win it all. Iona led UConn 39-37 at halftime, following what he called the best half his team has played all season. Flanked by an armed police officer, Pitino walked by the Iona band before he ran into Connecticut coach Dan Hurley.

With the Gaels' season coming to a close after an opening round loss to UConn, what's next for Iona coach Rick Pitino? Is he staying or going?

You don't just buy a house." ... The last thing I remember about being in St. Pitino has 834 career wins, a mark that includes the 123 victories that were vacated from his days at Louisville. "I really don't have an answer to it, to be honest," Pitino said, when asked if Friday's game was his last as an Iona coach. I know you're all alluding to St. "I hear the question, and I think when you start thinking ahead you always fail.

UConn pulled away in the second half for a convincing victory over Iona on Friday, giving the Huskies the program's first NCAA tournament win in more than 2,500 ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (WDRB) — A stack of boxed sandwiches sat untouched in the corner of the dressing room of the Iona men's basketball team, next to a plate of ...

St. John's reportedly "intends" to finalize a contract to make Rick Pitino its next head coach, FOX Sports' John Fanta reported.

You don’t buy houses without looking at the garage and the upstairs and the kitchen and everything. He said, ‘Coach, my shoes are on.’ I said, ‘Turn the water on and get in the shower.’ The referee comes and says, ‘One second,’ and I said, ‘My guys are in the shower. So I don’t remember too much about it, to tell you the truth, to be perfectly transparent. The Gaels finished the season with a 27-8 record in Pitino’s third season at the helm. In the postgame press conference, Pitino immediately faced a question about his future. Just hours after Iona’s season came to an end at the NCAA Tournament, Rick Pitino could be close to a new job.

Pitino coaching the Red Storm is certainly on the table, but another Big East option could emerge.

All eyes are on Cooley and Pitino — and what a shakeup to the Big East all of this could be. Pitino kept his gait straight and quickly disappeared behind a door with an Iona logo taped to the outside. "You don't buy houses without looking at the garage and the upstairs and the kitchen and everything," Pitino said about St. Maybe it should — there isn't a more proven candidate in this year's carousel, obviously — but it's unknown whether it would put Pitino at the top of the list if Cooley departs. A horde of media hoofed it in Pitino's wake after he spoke, hoping to glean any more clarity. Sources told CBS Sports the school has not made contact to this point and is pursuing other candidates. Pitino took the Friars to a Final Four in 1987. The industry has been abuzz with Pitino's future going on close to a month at this point. The leader at this stage is Providence coach Ed Cooley, sources told CBS Sports. - So, who is at the top of Georgetown's list of candidates? Reading the tea leaves, Iona's loss likely means Pitino has coached his last game with the Gaels after three seasons. Pitino's upset-minded Iona Gaels made it entertaining, competitive and had the affair in doubt for 20 minutes against No.