Rick Pitino
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"2" NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship/NCAA Division I Tournament Championships

"7" NCAA Men's Division I Final Four appearances by coaches/NCAA Regional Championships – Final Four

(1987, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2012, 2013)

"1" America East Conference/America East Tournament Championship (1983)

"2" America East Regular Season Championships

(1980, 1983)

"5" Southeastern Conference/SEC Tournament Championships (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997)

"2" SEC Regular Season Championships (1995, 1996)

"2" Conference USA/C-USA Tournament Championships (2003, 2005)

"1" C-USA Regular Season Championship (2005)

"3" Big East Conference (1979–2013)/Big East Tournament Championships (2009, 2012, 2013)

"2" Big East Conference/Big East Regular Season Championships (2009, 2013)

"1" American Athletic Conference/AAC Regular Season Championship (2014)"1" American Athletic Conference/AAC Tournament Championship (2014)

/ awards = "1" National Association of Basketball Coaches/NABC National Coach of the Year (1987)

"1" John Wooden National Coach of the Year (1987)

"3" Southeastern Conference/SEC Coach of the Year (1990, 1991, 1996)

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Bob Huggins, a lot of times, is misunderstood. He's someone who cares a great deal about his players. He wants to see them do well and he really goes the extra yard for players.

Little did he know what was going on behind the scenes.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Their guys have so much experience they're on Social Security. They're getting checks. They've been around. They play like a pro team. They run about 70 percent pick-and-roll. They force traps. They force you to switch. If it was a series, Georgia Tech would probably beat us.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

They're going to have to get a coach as good as Bob Huggins, and that's not easy to find. But if they can attract someone of the caliber of Bob Huggins, they can certainly continue.

When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Nobody we've played this season, ... has come with this much size, this much talent and this much experience. North Carolina and Georgia Tech probably have the most overall talent. Now that they're healthy, they're probably believing they can do it.