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Xavier head coach Richard Pitino dropped a hilarious comment to analyst Matt Norlander’s recent article questioning the Big East Conference’s priorities.
Norlander promoted his article with a tweet stating that the Big East cannot keep relying on the accolades of UConn coach Dan Hurley and St. John’s coach Rick Pitino.
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He also highlighted how the conference will likely spend around $135 million plus this season on its teams after the collective spending capacity skyrocketed.
“The Big East can’t keep latching its reputation to the coaching credentials of Hurley & Pitino,” Norlander tweeted. With a new commish and a collective spending budget of $135 million+ across 11 rosters, a huge season awaits for the only basketball-first power conference.”
Richard Pitino, Rick Pitino’s son, hilariously took credit for his dad’s mention.
“He’s right. Me and Dan Hurley can only do so much,” Richard Pitino tweeted.
Inhis CBS Sports article, Matt Norlander highlighted how Dan Hurley helped UConn compete for the national championship last season, even though only three teams from the Big East made March Madness.
“While NIL spending boosted across the high-major landscape, the Big East’s coaches, athletic directors and presidents were especially motivated coming off arguably the league’s worst regular season in its 47-year history,” Norlander wrote. Though UConn (again) salvaged so much of the league’s reputation by making an NCAA title game run as a No. 2 seed, the conference sent just three teams to the Big Dance (St. John’s was a 5 seed, Villanova was an 8).
“Three bids marked the fewest in Big East history. The league also ranked fifth out of the Power Five conferences in advanced metrics due to Butler, Creighton, Marquette and Providence all failing well short of expectations.”
Both UConn and St. John’s made the NCAA Tournament. Rick Pitino and his team were crowned the 2025-26 season’s Big East regular-season and tournament champions. They made it to the Sweet Sixteen but were…
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