Rick Pitino is a terrific coach ... McGunnigle, who died last year, coached Pitino at St. Dominic’s in Oyster Bay, and he saw it from the moment he first watched Pitino playing pickup on ...

Pitino, who was born in Manhattan and played high school basketball at St. Dominic in Oyster Bay, immediately understood its potential. Rick Pitino speaks with Kadary Richmond during a game ...

Rick Pitino: "Mike Cragg is gonna have a heart ... He was a standout point guard at St. Dominic High in Oyster Bay. More than five decades later, sipping a large cappuccino with skim milk in ...

Rick Pitino is a New York kind of guy. He was born in New York City some 72 years ago. He graduated from high school in Oyster Bay. His coaching stops have ranged from an assistant spot almost 50 ...

A high school romance that stood the test of time Rick Pitino and Joanne Minardi’s story started in the early 1970s when both were students at St. Dominic’s High School in Oyster Bay ...

Rick Pitino doesn’t look at his return to college basketball’s biggest stage as a redemption story. He said as much Saturday after leading St. John’s to its first Big East Tournament ...

Eight years after scandals ended Rick Pitino’s tenure at one of the country’s most successful programs and led him to find work halfway around the world, the 72-year-old has a chance to stand ...

Rick Pitino has won the Big East Tournament three times and owns multiple national coaching awards, but one distinction had eluded the St. John’s coach throughout his Hall of Fame career.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rick Pitino has matched wits with Mike Krzyzewski and Dean Smith, with John Thompson and Jim Boeheim, with Roy Williams, Lute Olson and more, but the only coach he has seen ...

St. John’s defeated Creighton on Saturday night to earn the school’s first Big East Tournament title in 25 years thanks to Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino, and he plans to celebrate in a big way.

At this point, we know almost everything about Rick Pitino, including the stuff we wish we didn’t. He’s 72 now, and in nearly a half century as a head coach, his fame has revealed all ...

While exiled from college basketball in 2019 and coaching in Greece after a tumultuous ending to his Louisville tenure, Rick Pitino called his shot. The storied college basketball coach ...