It will be reunion season for Rick Pitino.

First, it’s Iona on Saturday, then Kentucky a week later in Atlanta.

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Iona, of course, gave him another shot after he was fired by Louisville and was coaching in Greece.

He led the MAAC school to a pair of NCAA Tournament berths before leaving for St. John’s in 2023.

“The president [Seamus Carey] and [athletic director Matthew Glovaski] flew to Madrid, Spain, to see me coach against Real Madrid,” Pitino recalled this week. “We met at an Irish pub at midnight with my son, my niece and my nephew to talk about going to Iona, and we stayed from li

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