• The street naming ceremony for Jurich will take place Saturday at 10 a.m. on Louisville's campus, along Floyd Street. You ...

Rick Pitino said he has donated to Kentucky's NIL initiative for football and would do the same for Mark Pope and the Wildcats' basketball program. Louisville Courier-Journal.

American Pharoah winning the Belmont Stakes on June 6, 2015. Standing alongside the track and listening to the crowd at ...

Rick Pitino has coached six different schools to the NCAA Tournament. He has been involved in horse racing for decades and has connections to the 2025 Kentucky Derby field. Pitino has ties to 3 ...

Rick Pitino coached at Kentucky from 1989 through 1997. During that time, he won a national championship and three Final Fours. He then left to try coaching in the NBA with the Boston Celtics, ...

In 36 seasons at the college level, Pitino has an on-court record of 854-306 (.736) during stints at Hawaii, Boston University, Providence, Kentucky, Louisville, Iona and St. John's.

Rick Pitino told the Rupp Arena crowd that new Wildcats coach Mark Pope will carry Kentucky, which suffered two first-round exits in the past three NCAA tournaments, to "greatness." ...

Former Kentucky basketball coach Rick Pitino carries UK’s 1996 national championship trophy to the court before being re-introduced to the Big Blue Madness crowd in Rupp Arena on Friday night.

Along with his success on the hardwood, however, Pitino has been involved in horse racing for decades. Those connections continue to this day, as he has multiple ties to the 2025 Kentucky Derby field.

Mark Pope is set to begin his second season with Kentucky basketball. Here's how other coaches have fared during Year 2 leading the Kentucky Wildcats.

— Rick Pitino (@RealPitino) January 30, 2025 Calipari’s tenure at Kentucky was perfect, until it wasn’t. For almost a decade, he fulfilled Big Blue Nation’s wildest dreams.

For close to two decades, Rick Pitino was a villain to Kentucky basketball fans, a man whose life and career had an almost Shakespearean arc. After leading the Wildcats from the depths of scandal ...