By ADAM ZAGORIA
It was a bright and sunny first day of spring in the mid-50s on Tuesday in Manhattan when Rick Pitino was introduced as the newest coach of the St. John’s men’s basketball team.
St. John’s fans hope the weather marked an auspicious start of a new era for a program that hasn’t won an NCAA Tournament game since 2000.
Pitino, 70, was resplendent in a dark suit and maroon patterned tie during his introductory press conference at Madison Square Garden, where he coached Patrick Ewing and the Knicks back in the late 1980s.
“It’s not about when, or if, it’s going to happen for St. John’s and it’s going to happen in a big way,” Pitino, clearly enjoying the splendor of the moment, said, emphasizing that he would build “a culture of work.”
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