{"id":139649,"date":"2020-03-14T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=139649"},"modified":"2020-03-14T21:58:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T20:58:19","slug":"rick-pitino-confirms-that-he-will-be-ionas-next-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rick-pitino-confirms-that-he-will-be-ionas-next-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Official: Iona names Rick Pitino as Men&#8217;s Head Basketball Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Pitino confirmed to College Hoops Insider Jon Rothstein that he will be Iona&#8217;s next coach: &#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly excited. I started my journey in basketball in Manhattan. I&#8217;m now able to end my journey in New Rochelle. I&#8217;ve admired the stellar job that Tim Cluess has done. I&#8217;m going to try and carry that on and elevate it to prominence. I missed college basketball when I was in Greece. I&#8217;m back home where it all started. It&#8217;s the greatest feeling in the world&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Rick Pitino on Iona: &#8220;I&#8217;m incredibly excited. I started my journey in basketball in Manhattan. I&#8217;m now able to end my journey in New Rochelle. I&#8217;ve admired the stellar job that Tim Cluess has done. I&#8217;m going to try and carry that on and elevate it to prominence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRothstein\/status\/1238913718601252866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Pitino continued: &#8220;I missed college basketball when I was in Greece. I&#8217;m back home where it all started. It&#8217;s the greatest feeling in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRothstein\/status\/1238914161482125313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Iona announced Rick Pitino as the new head basketball coach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GAELNATION?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GAELNATION<\/a>, Coach Pitino!<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fp5azFixcH\">https:\/\/t.co\/fp5azFixcH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eK2qOdBlDJ\">pic.twitter.com\/eK2qOdBlDJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Iona Men&#39;s Hoops (@IonaGaelsMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IonaGaelsMBB\/status\/1238925534693928962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Pitino confirmed to College Hoops Insider Jon Rothstein that he will be Iona&#8217;s next coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,249,401],"tags":[2629,3306],"rumors":[407],"typology":[20],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-139649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-euroleague","category-greece","category-ncaa","tag-panathinaikos-en","tag-rick-pitino-en","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-ufficiale"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139649"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=139649"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=139649"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=139649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}