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Minnesota head coach Richard Pitino directs his team during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Purdue in the quarterfinals of the 2019 Big Ten Conference tournament. The day after being fired at Minnesota, Pitino was hired to become the new head coach at New Mexico.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — My first choice, John Wooden (proven winner), died in 2010. Details, details.
My second choice, Gregg Popovich, apparently couldn’t be pried away from the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs. Warm and fuzzy with the media as he is, Pop would have been fun to cover.