The first Saturday in January was a wild day of college basketball. You can’t necessarily use that word to describe the St. John’s 70-62 win over Butler, but Rick Pitino needed a little extra ...
And never mind that coach Rick Pitino and the team’s trainer already had decided to hold the point guard out until the Musketeers come to the Garden. Smith asked to play and Pitino agreed.
St. John’s head basketball coach Rick Pitino feels the NBA needs to go back to its level of physicality during the 1980s and 1990s, when he was coaching the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics ...