UMass Minutemen Basketball - UMass Minutemen Basketball Coaches, UMass Minutemen Basketball Players, Marcus Camby, Rick Pitino, John Calipari (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 121. Not illustrated. Chapters: Umass Minutemen Basketball Coaches, Umass Minutemen Basketball Players, Marcus Camby, Rick Pitino, John Calipari, Julius Erving, Travis Ford, Steve Lappas, Bruiser Flint, Stephane Lasme, Al Skinner, Derek Kellogg, Johnny Orr, Mullins Center, Gary Forbes, Tony Gaffney, Harold Gore, Commonwealth Classic, Tony Barbee, Walter Hargesheimer, Chris Lowe, Kitwana Rhymer, Matt Zunic, Lou Roe, John Robic, Chuck Martin, Curry Hicks Cage, Lari Ketner, Rashaun Freeman, James Life. Excerpt: Rick Pitino (born September 18, 1952)) is an American basketball coach. Since 2001, he has been the head coach at the University of Louisville. He has also served as head coach at Boston University, Providence College and the University of Kentucky, leading that program to the NCAA championship in 1996. He has coached on the professional level for the NBA's New York Knicks and Boston Celtics with mixed results. Pitino holds the distinction of being the only men's coach in NCAA history to lead three different schools (Providence, Kentucky, and Louisville) to the Final Four. In addition, Pitino has achieved a measure of success as an author and a motivational speaker. Pitino an Italian American and native of New York City, grew up in the Village of Bayville and was captain of the St. Dominic High School basketball team in nearby Oyster Bay, Long Island. He enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1970. He was a standout guard for the Minutemen basketball team. His 329 career assists rank tenth all-time at UMass, as of the 2008-2009 season. He led the team in assists as a junior and senior. The 168 assists as a senior is the eighth-best single season total ever there. Pitino was a freshman at the same time future NBA legend Julius Erving spent his junior (and final) year at UMass, although the two never played on t...