Rick Pitino

Rick Pitino
	Pitino in a press conference for the 2013 Final Four
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	St. John's
Conference	Big East
Record	51–18 (.739)
Biographical details
Born	September 18, 1952; New York City, New York, U.S.
Playing career
1971–1974	UMass
Position(s)	Point guard
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1974–1976	Hawaii (assistant)
1976	Hawaii (interim HC)
1976–1978	Syracuse (assistant)
1978–1983	Boston University
1983–1985	New York Knicks (assistant)
1985–1987	Providence
1987–1989	New York Knicks
1989–1997	Kentucky
1997–2001	Boston Celtics
2001–2017	Louisville
2018–2020	Panathinaikos
2020–2023	Iona
2023–present	St. John's
Head coaching record
Overall	885–311 (.740) (college); 192–220 (.466) (NBA)
Tournaments	55–22 (NCAA Division I); 6–5 (NIT)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	2 NCAA Division I tournament (1996, 2013); 7 NCAA Division I regional – Final Four (1987, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2012, 2013); America East tournament (1983); 2 America East regular season (1980, 1983); 5 SEC Tournament (1992–1995, 1997); 2 SEC regular season (1995, 1996); 2 C-USA tournament (2003, 2005); C-USA regular season (2005); 4 Big East tournament (2009, 2012, 2013, 2025); 3 Big East regular season (2009, 2013, 2025); AAC tournament (2014); AAC regular season (2014); Greek Cup (2019); 2 Greek League (2019, 2020); MAAC tournament (2021, 2023); 2 MAAC regular season (2022, 2023);
Awards
	AP Coach of the Year (2025); Henry Iba Award (2025); NABC Coach of the Year (1987); John Wooden National Coach of the Year (1987); Adolph Rupp Cup (2009); 3× SEC Coach of the Year (1990, 1991, 1996); C-USA Coach of the Year (2005); 2× MAAC Coach of the Year (2022, 2023); Big East Coach of the Year (2025); * Vacated by the NCAA
	Basketball Hall of Fame; Inducted in 2013 (profile)

Richard Andrew Pitino (/pɪˈtiːnoʊ/; born September 18, 1952) is an American basketball coach who is the head men's basketball coach at St. John's University. He was also the head coach of Greece's senior national team. 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).

Pitino led Kentucky to an NCAA championship in 1996.

In 2013, while in Atlanta with his team for the Final Four, 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.