Rick Pitino press conference

St. John’s coach Rick Pitino may have been born in Manhattan, but his basketball legend came of age on Long Island. The kid from Bayville made a bit of a splash when he earned a coveted spot on the varsity basketball team at St. Dominic High School in Oyster Bay as a sophomore, and the ripples just got bigger from there. Before long, he was the sixth man on a powerhouse team that won the 1968 Long Island Catholic school championship. A year later, he was the starting guard with a catchy nickname

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