UPDATE
The Iona Gaels have officially hired Rick Pitino as their next head coach.
BREAKING: Iona will hire Rick Pitino as its next head basketball coach, per Gaels' Athletic Director Matt Glovaski.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) March 14, 2020
With the college basketball season coming to a screeching halt due to the Coronavirus, it seems only fitting that the one man sitting on pause the longest - Rick Pitino - might finally be on the fast track back to the sidelines.
Per Adam Zagoria, a college basketball insider and former beat writer for Iona College, Pitino is a serious candidate to replace Tim Cluess, who resigned on Friday for personal reasons.