How Rick Pitino experimented with transfer portal at St. John's — and won
This coach is a Hall of Famer who flips rosters and is king of the transfer portal. Deion Sanders? Nope.
It's Rick Pitino at red-hot St. John's.
SAN DIEGO – Much like Deion Sanders in football, Rick Pitino has developed a bit of a reputation for himself in this new era of men’s college basketball . He’s a Hall of Famer who pioneered the art of flipping a team roster and becoming king of the transfer portal, following a blueprint similar to the one used by Sanders , the football coach at Colorado. The big difference so far is sustained results.
Pitino has revived St. John’s with three straight winning seasons, including a second straight NCAA Tournament appearance, this time as a No. 5 seed here against Northern Iowa on Friday, March 20.
“We don’t build through the high school ranks,” Pitino said Thursday. “We build through the portal. And we keep the ones we want coming back, and the ones that want to leave should leave.
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