It’s tournament time of course, but off-court news took charge on Monday as Georgetown hired Ed Cooley away from Providence and at St. John’s, former Duke assistant AD Mike Cragg hired Iona’s Rick Pitino.
Both are pretty huge developments.
Thoug he’s now 70, Rick Pitino is still a great coach. Let him swim in the portal waters a bit and he’ll reel in some major prospects. Most schools would like to have a coach of his caliber.
Our question about Pitino has always been simple: clearly he’s a basketball genius but he’s had many personal failings.