Fairleigh Dickinson’s Tobin Anderson, whose team pulled off one of the biggest upsets in tournament history last weekend as a No. 16 seed by knocking off No. 1 seed Purdue, has been hired to replace Rick Pitino at Iona, per ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
It will be a five-year deal for Anderson with the Gaels.
Thamel was first to report that Iona was zeroing in on Anderson, while Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports was first to report that Anderson informed the leadership at Fairleigh Dickinson that he was leaving for the Iona job.