“The probability of me coming back is very high”, Pitino said Tuesday.
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Georgia Tech was slightly better at 37 percent and outrebounded Louisville 42-35 but lost a second close game to the Cardinals.
That’s all they’d get, too, as school administrators declared them ineligible for postseason play last month after determining recruiting violations were committed from 2010 to 2014.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Louisville coach Rick Pitino gave his departing transfers some championship-quality bling and a video tribute featuring “One Shining Moment”. “I doubt it. I don’t think it’s probable”.
The outcome was ultimately sealed by Lee, one of Louisville’s two graduate transfers with Trey Lewis, in their final collegiate game. His good friend and Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich has not indicted Pitino. Lewis finally scored on a free throw midway through the second half…. Tied at 34, the Cardinals gained separation from the surging Yellow Jackets with a 13-2 surge fueled by a Lee 3-pointer, the team’s first after missing 10 consecutive from distance. Pitino then presented Lee and Lewis with the rings and called the duo “championship people”, his way of thanking them for leading the Cardinals on and off the court. Georgia Tech is 6-4 since that January 25 loss and enters the KFC Yum! But he did think it would probably happen at some point, and he was confident when the Yellow Jackets fouled him on Tuesday night.
Georgia Tech then created two clean 3-point looks for Smith in the final minute, but he misfired on both. Onuaku was 7 of 10 from the field. “When you look at it from that perspective, you grow”, Lewis said.
Onuaku’s shots came in really handy when Georgia Tech picked up a four-point play. I love teaching, love coaching, love this team. “They’ll get through this like we had to get through it. Get it resolved as quickly as possible, and move on from there. You can live with that”. The 6-foot-10 center had 17 points and 11 rebounds to go along with three blocks. Trey Lewis had three points and five rebounds. Georgia Tech wasn’t much better at 36.7-percent and also had 17 turnovers. Chinanu Onuaku (9.8) and Quentin Snider (9.7).
“It was wonderful”, he said.
Pitino said the No. 11 Cardinals helped reinvigorate him after the scandal broke last fall and that he’ll take time off after the season to re-evaluate his future.
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Eric Crawford of WDRB.com, who co-authored Pitino’s latest book, “The One-Day Contract”, said he spoke to Pitino about the conversation with O’Connor and the coach told him it is “highly likely” that he’ll be back next season.
