RICK PITINO BIOGRAPHY
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Date of Birth: September 18,1952
Hometown: New York, N.Y.
High School: St. Dominic's, Oyster Bay, N.Y.
College: University of Massachusetts
Year Graduated: 1974
Sports Played: Basketball (6-foot guard who played four seasons at UMass, averaging 28 points per game his senior year)
Coaching HigMights: 1974-76,
graduate and assistant coach,
University of Hawaii; 1976-78,
assistant coach, Syracuse
University; 1978-83, head coach,
Boston University; 1983-85,
assistant coach, New York
Knickerbockers; 1985-87, head
coach, Providence College; 1987-
89, head coach, New York
Knickerbockers; 1989-present,
head coach, University of
Kentucky.
Honors: 1987 Sporting News National Coach of the Year; 1990 Basketball Tunes National Coach of the Year; 1991 Sporting News National Coach of the Year; 1996 AP SEC Coach of the Year.
Wife's Name:
Joanne Minardi Pitino
Children: Michael 18;
Christopher 16; Richard 14;
Ryan 6; Jaclyn 4.
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Coach Rick Pitino has had 13 former assistant coaches advance to head coaching positions. Pictured are those former Pitino assistants.
BOB BROWN Southern Maine 1987-90 Boston University 1990-94
BILL BURKE Loyola (Baltimore, Md) 1981-82
GORDON CHIESA Providence 1987-88 Currently Utah Jazz Asst.
BILLY DONOVAN                  STU JACKSON JOHN KUESTER
Marshall 1994-96                Neu> York Knicks 1990 Boston University 1983-85
Florida 1996-Presenl                Wisconsin 1992-94 Qeorge Washington 1985-90
Currenrlv V.P., Vancouver Grfclies Currently Boston Celtics Asst.
BERNADETTE MATTOX Kentucky Women 1995-|>rescut
JIM O'BRIEN Dayton 1990-94 Currently UK Associate Coach
.\L\RTIN SCHOEPFER Connecticut College 1982-93
HERB SENDEK ORLANDO "TUBBY" SMITH JEFF VAN GUNDY
Miami (Ohio) 1993-1996 Tulsa 1991-1995 New York Knicks
North Carolina St. 1996-present        Georgia 1995-fwesent 1996-present
RALPH WILLARD Western Kentucky 1990-94 Pittsburgh 1994-f>rescnt