Pope didn't show up for the presser for 45 minutes after the loss. And when he did, he talked in quiet, clipped code.
Indiana University basketball fans howled about the modest recruiting success that Tom Crean and his staff delivered in the summer of 2015.
There will be more than one Pitino in the Big East next season.
In men's college basketball, this has been The Year of the Southeastern Conference.
Bruce Thornton scored 22 of his career-high 30 points in the second half and Ohio State cruised to an 85-65 victory over No. 4 Kentucky on Saturday in the CBS Classic at Madison Square Garden.
This is Pitino Week: for Rick at St. John's and Richard at New Mexico.
Four teams continue to make their cases they are the most likely picks to be No. 1 seeds for the men’s NCAA Tournament when the field is announced March 14.
The Associated Press dropped its fifth poll of the college basketball season on Monday, and Arizona ascended as the third team to spot atop the poll.
They trailed by 8 points with 1 minute and 18 seconds to play. They needed an Aggies player to miss not one, but two free throws with 1.5 seconds to play.
Indiana beat Louisville, 74-66, late Monday afternoon in the consolation game of the Saatva Empire Classic at Madison Square Garden.