Richard Andrew Pitino (; born September 18, 1952) is an American basketball coach who is the head men's basketball coach at St. John's University. He has been the head coach of several teams in NCAA Division I and in the NBA, including Boston University (1978–1983), Providence College (1985–1987), the New York Knicks (1987–1989), the University of Kentucky (1989–1997), the Boston Celtics (1997–2001), the University of Louisville (2001–2017), Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and EuroLeague (2018–2020), and Iona University (2020–2023). He was also the head coach of Greece's senior national team.
Pitino led Kentucky to an NCAA championship in 1996. In 2013, his Louisville team won the national championship and he was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
In June 2017, the NCAA suspended Pitino for five games of the 2017–18 season for a perceived lack of oversight in an escort sex scandal at the University of Louisville involving recruits. Louisville's national championship from 2013 was eventually vacated and is being appealed by the university. In September, Pitino was implicated in a federal investigation involving bribes to recruits, which resulted in Louisville firing him for cause. He was later exonerated of these accusations and soon returned to coaching after a brief stint as a broadcaster.
On March 20, 2023, he was named head basketball coach at St. John's University. Since taking over at St. John's, Pitino has led the program to back-to-back Big East regular season and tournament championships in 2025 and 2026.
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Date: 18 September 1952
Freighter P H Townsend converted to cement carrier for Huron Portland Cement Co, Bethlehem Steel shipyard; unloading system described; ship superstructure left unfinished to permit navigation of inland waterways to Gt Lakes
Date: 18 September 1952
Acting Pres Urdaneta Arbelaez tells Internatl Press Assn of planned probe into police failure to stop attacks on press offices; denies refusal to protect papers
Date: 18 September 1952
P Conrad wins Disabled Veterans ed cartoon award
Date: 18 September 1952
NLRB aide holds Boston Post unfair in refusal to give ANG all payroll data during talks
Date: 19 September 1952
Maj Gen Adler repts US papers will spend about $1.5 million in own pubs during ANPA Ad Bur promotion campaign; heads campaign com; repts 875 papers participated in '51
Date: 18 September 1952
Printers' Ink quotes Gen Eisenhower and Gov Stevenson on ad role in natl econ
Date: 19 September 1952
By JANE NICKERSON
Jane NICKERSON
Date: 18 September 1952
By JUNE OWEN
June OWEN
Date: 18 September 1952
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