Rick Pitino has given Iona — and St. John’s — an up-close and personal view of how a Hall of Fame coach can impact a program.
ALBANY — Rick Pitino has given Iona an up-close and personal view of how a Hall of Fame coach can impact a program through the sheer force of his personality and basketball genius.
There was no limo with Lou Carnesecca waiting inside observed outside MVP Arena to whisk him away to a certain university on Utopia Parkway, where a fan base searching desperately for a savior is waiting with open arms to for its dream.Rick Pitino reacts animatedly during the second half of Iona’s 87-63 loss to UConn.
“You don’t buy houses without looking at the garage and the upstairs and the kitchen and everything,” Pitino said. “You just don’t buy a house.”Pitino knew what he was up against on Friday, a program that Hurley had rebuilt from the ground up, with Final Four ambitions. A deep team that had Iona at its mercy on the glass .
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