Richard Andrew Pitino is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach for Iona University. He was also the head coach of Greece's senior national team. He has been the head coach of several teams in NCAA Division I and in the NBA, including Boston University (1978â1983), Providence College (1985â1987), the New York Knicks (1987â1989), the University of Kentucky (1989â1997), the Boston Celtics (1997â2001), the University of Louisville (2001â2017), and Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and EuroLeague (2018â2020).