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Louisville board chair shows support for Pitino

The chairman of the board of trustees at Louisville said Friday night that embattled coach Rick Pitino has his and the board's support.

"Our genuine hope is that Coach Pitino is our coach for as many years as he wants,'' board chair Larry Benz said in a statement.

Benz's statement read like a direct rebuttal to one made earlier this week by another Louisville board member. In explaining her vote of no confidence for university president James Ramsey, who is embroiled in his own controversy unrelated to the athletics department, Leslie Bingham wrote in a letter to the Louisville Courier-Journal: "In a basketball program already embarrassed by the sexual misconduct of its coach, egregious alleged sexual misconduct by employees and players was never met with clear, forceful condemnation from the president.