Richard Pitino

Richard Pitino

Pitino in 2013
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Minnesota
Conference	Big Ten
Record	58–52 (.527)
Biographical details
Born	(1982-09-16) September 16, 1982
Alma mater	Providence
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2004–2005	College of Charleston (admin. asst.)
2005–2006	Northeastern (asst.)
2006–2007	Duquesne (asst.)
2007–2009	Louisville (asst.)
2009–2011	Florida (asst.)
2011–2012	Louisville (associate HC)
2012–2013	FIU
2013–present	Minnesota
Head coaching record
Overall	76–66 (.535)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
NIT Championship (2014)

Richard William Pitino (born September 16, 1982) is the head coach of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team. He is the son of Louisville's head coach, Rick Pitino. After attending St. Sebastian's School in Needham, Massachusetts, Richard Pitino earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history at Providence College in 2005. During his time at Providence, Pitino was the manager for the Friars men's basketball team under Tim Welsh. For two years, he also served as an assistant coach for Saint Andrew's School in nearby Barrington, Rhode Island.

Assistant coaching career

In 2004-2005, he worked as an administrative assistant under Tom Herrion at the College of Charleston. In 2005, he was hired by coach Ron Everhart to serve as assistant coach at Northeastern University and followed Everhart to Duquesne University the following year. He was hired on at Louisville in April 2007.

He left the University of Louisville and accepted a position to work under Billy Donovan at the University of Florida on April 17, 2009.

He left Florida on April 12, 2011, to become the associate head coach at Louisville.

Head coaching career

Florida International University

Pitino left his position as the associate head coach at Louisville to become the head coach at FIU on April 15, 2012 replacing Isiah Thomas. With only six players remaining from the previous season, and not all of them on scholarship, Pitino cobbled together a team and coached a high-pressure defense that finished eighth in the nation in steals. He was able to compile an 18-14 record (11-9 in the Sun Belt conference) in his first season as head coach. His FIU team had the best conference record in school history. Additionally, FIU reached the Sun Belt Tournament Title game as a four seed, before falling to Western Kentucky in the tournament championship game, 65-63.

University of Minnesota

On April 3, 2013, despite having only one year of head coaching experience at FIU, Pitino was hired to become the head coach at the University of Minnesota replacing Tubby Smith.

On April 1, 2014, in Pitino's first season at Minnesota, the Golden Gophers defeated Florida State University 67–64 in overtime in the NIT semifinals, breaking a school record with its 24th win of the season. On April 3, 2014, exactly one year to the date he was hired, Pitino won his first NIT Championship by defeating coach Larry Brown's SMU team 65–63, securing a school record 25th win.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
FIU Panthers (Sun Belt Conference) (2012–2013)
2012–13	FIU	18–14	11–9	5th (East)
FIU:		18–14 (.563)	11–9 (.550)
Minnesota Golden Gophers (Big Ten Conference) (2013–present)
2013–14	Minnesota	25–13	8–10	7th	NIT Champions
2014–15	Minnesota	18–15	6–12	T–10th
2015–16	Minnesota	8–23	2–16	13th
2016–17	Minnesota	7–1	0–0
Minnesota:		58–52 (.527)	16–38 (.296)
Total:		76–66 (.535)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

External links

• Player bio at Duquesne University
• Player bio at the University of Louisville