The first-year head coach at the New Jersey low-major accepted the head coaching job at Iona on Tuesday ... He will replace Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino, who was named the head coach at St ...

Over the course of a 30-minute interview, Pitino fluctuated between loyalty to Iona and openness to one more big challenge. That openness is obvious and understandable. This is Rick Pitino after ...

The only team to hold a lead on the Huskies at halftime was Iona, then coached by the Naismith Hall of Famer Rick Pitino ... even better,” Hurley, the Jersey City native and former Seton ...

comes over from Iona, where he posted a 64-22 record and two tournament appearances in three seasons. St. John’s college basketball head coach Rick Pitino holds up a jersey after being ...

The reign of Rick Pitino's coaching career dates to well before his three seasons at Iona. After growing up ... huge sports fan based out of the South Jersey area in the United States.

After a disappointing early exit from last season's MAAC Tournament, head coach Rick Pitino is feeling ... is unclear for now. Pitino, who has previously said Iona would be his final coaching ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The basketball gods must have an affinity for sportswriters, because the fact we are going to get Rick ... the New Jersey Nets (Calipari) and Boston Celtics (Pitino).

Following Iona’s 87-63 loss to the UConn Huskies on Friday, Pitino was asked whether the first-round loss was his last as head coach of the Gaels. "I really don't have an answer to it ...

It wouldn’t have happened without Rick Pitino remaking Mitchell ... Last season, Fox Sports analyst Vin Parise was at an Iona practice. Pitino had to run out afterward because he was taking ...

By Adam Zagoria ALBANY, N.Y. — Rick Pitino ... No. 13-seeded Iona Gaels lost to the University of Connecticut, 87-63, in the first round of the men’s N.C.A.A. tournament, Pitino shook hands ...

Rick Pitino wasn’t ... NCAA championship in 1996, giving Pitino his first title. The following season, Calipari became the head coach of the then-New Jersey Nets. A year later, Pitino, too ...