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per the AP:
Richard Pitino sat calmly in the middle of the room, his eager players flanking him and his restless children in front of him on the floor, as the teams with NCAA Tournament bids flashed on a big screen.
There went Louisville, an awfully familiar name.
Next came Minnesota, his current team.
Pitino simply smiled, fully and immediately aware of the extra intrigue created by the selection committee with this East Region matchup of No. 7 and 10 seeds.
The madness of March has been built on all those low-major upsets and buzzer-beating swishes that bust up the office-pool brackets, but some of the must-see TV each year is arranged before the opening tip.
The Louisville-Minnesota game is one of those predetermined talkers, pitting Pitino and the Gophers against the storied program that fired his father, Rick Pitino, prior to the 2017-18 season in response to the federal investigation into a nationwide college basketball bribery and corruption case. Richard Pitino served two stints as an assistant with the Cardinals under his dad, who has been coaching a professional team in Greece this season .
''Has he talked about Louisville the last two years? Yeah, he has, not in the most positive light,'' Pitino said. ''It's not going to be about me. I'm not going to be, 'Oh, it's revenge,' or anything like that. It's about our players. It's about this program.''
The Gophers will go to the NCAA Tournament for a second time in six seasons under Pitino.
''We know he's been there a long time, his dad's been there, but we can't make it all about the Pitino family,'' senior shooting guard Dupree McBrayer said. ''This is a team game.''
https://sports.yahoo.com/made-tv-nc...ta-hits-pitino-intrigue-153545946--ncaab.html
Go Gophers!!
Richard Pitino sat calmly in the middle of the room, his eager players flanking him and his restless children in front of him on the floor, as the teams with NCAA Tournament bids flashed on a big screen.
There went Louisville, an awfully familiar name.
Next came Minnesota, his current team.
Pitino simply smiled, fully and immediately aware of the extra intrigue created by the selection committee with this East Region matchup of No. 7 and 10 seeds.
The madness of March has been built on all those low-major upsets and buzzer-beating swishes that bust up the office-pool brackets, but some of the must-see TV each year is arranged before the opening tip.
The Louisville-Minnesota game is one of those predetermined talkers, pitting Pitino and the Gophers against the storied program that fired his father, Rick Pitino, prior to the 2017-18 season in response to the federal investigation into a nationwide college basketball bribery and corruption case. Richard Pitino served two stints as an assistant with the Cardinals under his dad, who has been coaching a professional team in Greece this season .
''Has he talked about Louisville the last two years? Yeah, he has, not in the most positive light,'' Pitino said. ''It's not going to be about me. I'm not going to be, 'Oh, it's revenge,' or anything like that. It's about our players. It's about this program.''
The Gophers will go to the NCAA Tournament for a second time in six seasons under Pitino.
''We know he's been there a long time, his dad's been there, but we can't make it all about the Pitino family,'' senior shooting guard Dupree McBrayer said. ''This is a team game.''
https://sports.yahoo.com/made-tv-nc...ta-hits-pitino-intrigue-153545946--ncaab.html
Go Gophers!!