Overview
- Pitino wore his signature white suit for St. John’s annual White-Out game against Villanova, drawing a loud ovation from the sellout Garden crowd.
- He had publicly weighed skipping the suit this year because of the Red Storm’s lopsided defeat at No. 6 UConn earlier in the week.
- The Hall of Famer said he had the white suit custom-made earlier in the season, joking it might be one of his last before clarifying he was not retiring.
- A group of Pitino’s friends also arrived in matching white suits and posed with him at midcourt before tipoff.
- Coverage noted the small-sample lore that St. John’s is 2-0 when he wears the white suit in prior White-Out games.