During his four previous years as a head coach, Richard Pitino has come close to joining his famous father in the NCAA Tournament a couple of times.
“For me, I’ve been really close,” Pitino, 34, told FanRagSports.com by phone on Thursday. “My first year at FIU we were really close, we went to the finals of the conference tournament. My second year [and first at Minnesota] we were probably once of the last teams to not make it. So we’ve been pretty close.”
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