Rick Pitino
Pitino answers questions from the press at the 2013 Final Four
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Louisville |
| Conference | ACC |
| Record | 416–141 (.747) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
September 18, 1952 New York City, New York |
| Playing career | |
| 1971–1974 | UMass |
| Position(s) | 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–present | Louisville |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 770–269 (.741) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 2× NCAA Division I championships (1996, 2013) 7× NCAA Final Four (1987, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2012, 2013) America East Tournament championship (1983) 2× America East regular season championships (1980, 1983) 5× SEC Tournament championships (1992–1995, 1997) 2× SEC regular season championships (1995, 1996) 2× C-USA Tournament championships (2003, 2005) C-USA regular season championship (2005) 3× Big East Tournament championships (2009, 2012, 2013) 2× Big East regular season championships (2009, 2013) AAC regular season championship (2014) AAC Tournament championship (2014) |
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| Awards | |
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NABC Coach of the Year (1987) Adolph Rupp Cup (2009) John Wooden National Coach of the Year (1987) 3× SEC Coach of the Year (1990, 1991, 1996) C-USA Coach of the Year (2005) |
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Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2013 |
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Richard Andrew "Rick" Pitino (born September 18, 1952) is an American basketball coach. Since 2001, he has been the head coach at the University of Louisville, and coached the Cardinals to the NCAA championship in 2013. As a college head coach, Pitino has also served at Boston University (1978–1983), Providence College (1985–1987) and the University of Kentucky (1989–1997), leading that program to the NCAA championship in 1996. In addition to his college coaching career, Pitino also served two stints in the NBA, coaching the New York Knicks for two seasons and the Boston Celtics for three and a partial fourth.
Pitino holds the distinction of being the only men's coach in history to lead two different schools to an NCAA Championship (Kentucky and Louisville). He is also the only coach to lead three different schools (Providence, Kentucky, and Louisville) to a Final Four. Pitino is one of only four coaches in NCAA history (along with Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim) to take his school to the Final Four in four separate decades, one of only three coaches (along with Roy Williams and Jack Gardner) to have led two different programs to at least two Final Fours each, and one of only two coaches (along with Williams) to have led two different programs to at least three Final Fours each. In 2013, Pitino was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
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