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.

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 ...

Tom Jurich hasn't been on a college campus in an official capacity for almost seven years. But he still pays attention.

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 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, ...

Rick Pitino was wildly cheered in a surprise return to Rupp Arena, with the Hall of Fame coach saying “I am so happy to be back” in a show of support for first-year Kentucky coach and former ...

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." ...

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

Rick Pitino career at Kentucky. After coaching a surprising Providence squad to the 1987 Final Four and then spending two seasons with the Knicks, Pitino was convinced by athletic director C.M ...

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.

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 ...