New Xavier head basketball coach Richard Pitino credits his father, Rick Pitino, for his insatiable competitive nature. "That would be the singular thing I've learned," Pitino said Tuesday at his ...

So when Richard Pitino was being interviewed for multiple head coaching openings while he was still New Mexico's head coach, ...

That's not surprising coming off a run to the NCAA Tournament, two postseason games in three days and a coaching search that ...

The Xavier Musketeers got their new head basketball coach Tuesday night by hiring New Mexico head coach Richard Pitino to ...

Less than an hour after Chris Mack announced he would return to Charleston, CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein announced that Xavier ...

When Richard Pitino was asked about the expectations for his first season at Xavier Tuesday afternoon, the 42-year-old took a ...

But the hiring of Richard Pitino Tuesday night was a page foreign to Xavier's recent playbook. Xavier had not hired a head coach without ties to the program since Thad Matta in 2001. The fanbase ...

There will be more than one Pitino in the Big East next season. Xavier hired Richard Pitino, the son of St. John’s coach Rick Pitino, as its basketball coach on Tuesday night. The school had an ...

CINCINNATI -- Richard Pitino said he needed the right situation to come along for him to leave New Mexico. He ended up getting one in an unlikely spot. Pitino was introduced as Xavier's new coach ...

One week after he was formally introduced as Xavier's next head men's basketball coach, Richard Pitino has finalized his ...