{"id":15973,"date":"2013-04-03T15:07:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T20:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15973"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:07:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T20:07:49","slug":"richard-pitino-to-coach-gopher-mens-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=15973","title":{"rendered":"Richard Pitino To Coach Gopher Men&#8217;s Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Richard-Pitino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15974\" title=\"Richard Pitino\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Richard-Pitino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP Apr 3, 2013) &#8211; Minnesota has picked Richard Pitino, the son of Louisville coach Rick Pitino, to take over for Tubby Smith.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A person with knowledge of the discussions says Pitino reached a verbal agreement with Minnesota on Wednesday. The person requested anonymity because the deal has not been officially announced.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In his lone season at Florida International, Pitino led the Panthers to an 18-14 record, the school&#8217;s first winning season in 13 years. He will turn 31 in September, fitting the profile of the young, up-and-comer that Minnesota athletic director Norwood Teague has preferred to hire in the past.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Smith was fired last week after six seasons at Minnesota. He was hired at Texas Tech on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP Apr 3, 2013) &#8211; Minnesota has picked Richard Pitino, the son of Louisville coach Rick Pitino, to take over for Tubby Smith. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A person with knowledge of the discussions says Pitino reached a verbal agreement with Minnesota on Wednesday. The person requested anonymity because the deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15975,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15973\/revisions\/15975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}