The college basketball world on Monday went a little crazy when news broke that frequent Albuquerque visitor Rick Pitino would be taking over as the new head coach at St. John’s.
The return to the Big East Conference, and to coaching (some) of his home games at Madison Square Garden, for Pitino, the Hall of Fame coach is big news for the sport.
“Clearly ducking a return game with the Lobos,” UNM coach Richard Pitino, Rick Pitino’s son who hosted his dad and his now former team, the Iona Gaels, for a game in the Pit this past season, wrote on Twitter about the news.