Rick Pitino coached his first game at Hawaii in 1976, under odd circumstances. Before Pitino ever won a game, a newspaper cartoonisted predicted his great career. NCAA probe resulted in Rick ...

A young man who didn’t travel much out of the Eastern Seaboard and to come to Hawaii at that time, it was just incredible for me.” Rick Pitino coaching UH in 1977 (Courtesy Hawaii Athletics ...

St. John’s Red Storm head coach Rick Pitino is as well-respected in the basketball world as anyone. While he does have some ...

Rick Pitino is no stranger to the thrill of college ... Here's his full career timeline: 1974-76: Hawaii assistant coach and interim head coach Pitino's coaching career began as an assistant ...

Rick Pitino has excelled at coaching the St. John ... you just for an hour,” ” Pitino recalled. “We’re going to Hawaii the next night on our honeymoon and I said, ‘I’m gonna meet ...

Perhaps, if, in May of 1997, Rick Pitino had resisted the clarion call ... an era where the NCAA once charged him as an assistant at Hawaii with giving players coupons for free food at McDonalds ...

Eight years after scandals ended Rick Pitino’s tenure at one of the country ... has won everywhere since he first became an interim head coach at Hawaii in 1976. Among active Division I ...

Over the course of his distinguished college basketball coaching career, Rick Pitino ... had a honeymoon to Hawaii, but we’ve had quite a few trips after that,” Pitino said, with a smile.

In 1976, Lyons predicted that a slick young fella named Pitino would become a heck of a coach someday, and the cartoonist hoped it would be with Hawaii. “Personally, I’d like to see Rick ...