Life experiences, age have Pitino enjoying experience By Pat Forde, ESPN.com Joanne Pitino sat in her Louisville living room Saturday afternoon and watched a disaster unfolding 1,300 miles away. On the threshold of the school's first Final Four in 19 years, the Louisville Cardinals were being routed by a bunch of unheralded underdogs from West Virginia. Worse yet, her husband, Rick, was being shot out of the gym from the three-point line ? the very weapon he's used better than any coach in college basketball history. The valedictory moment in Pitino's coaching comeback was slipping away. Down 20, this surreal situation called for a supernatural solution. Joanne, who was watching the game with her future daughter-in-law, Bethany Moore, got up and went into the next room. Speaking to the portrait hanging on the wall, she said, "I really hate to do this, but ..." Source <font color="Blue">Please do not post full articles.</font>
Good to see Rick do well in Lousivlle. He is where he belongs and that's college basketball. He is great for college basketball.