SAN DIEGO — Rick Pitino has coached 1,231 college basketball games. Bill Self has coached 1,126. Just one of those games has been against each other.
That was in November 2021, and it wasn’t a fair fight. Pitino was at mid-major Iona, still reinventing himself for about the fourth time in his highly dramatic, ever-evolving career. Self was on his way to winning the national championship at Kansas a few months later. The Jayhawks won by 13.
