Pitino started his journey with the St. John's Red Storm in 2023. After a rocky start to his tenure in New York, the Red ...

The St. John's Red Storm have been transformed into a college basketball power under the leadership of head coach Rick Pitino ...

St. John's Rick Pitino vs. Arkansas' John Calipari. This is the 30th meeting between two of basketball’s most well-known ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rick Pitino and John Calipari. Gucci loafers vs. sneakers. The native New Yorker back in his hometown against a quintessential carpetbagger making yet another stop on the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rick Pitino has matched wits with Mike Krzyzewski ... His relationship with Arkansas coach John Calipari is different, surprisingly, given the toe-to-toe battles during ...

Rick Pitino wasn’t interested in hyping up his marquee matchup with John Calipari. Sure, the Hall of Fame coaches have traded haymakers throughout their many basketball battles over the past ...

A storybook season for Pitino’s second-seeded St. John’s came to a sudden end as Calipari’s 10th-seeded Arkansas pulled off a 75-66 upset in Providence, R.I. St. John’s (31-5) shot just 28% from the ...

Rick Pitino (left) shakes hands with John Calipari before a 2016 game between Louisville and Kentucky. Counting six games in the NBA, Calipari owns a 16-13 edge in head-to-head meetings against ...

PROVIDENCE — It’s the matchup that most craved. John Calipari vs. Rick Pitino for a spot in the Sweet 16. The two Hall of Fame coaches will sport different colors than they wore in their ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The basketball gods must have an affinity for sportswriters, because the fact we are going to get Rick Pitino vs. John Calipari one more time is so good, it almost feels ...

When John Calipari rose to prominence at UMass during the same era as Rick Pitino was (re)building a powerhouse program at Kentucky, for some reason the broader media had no idea how to process ...