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Rebuilders: UNM’s Pitino, SJSU’s Miles have led the two biggest turnarounds in college basketball

When Tim Miles invited his old Big Ten coaching buddy Richard Pitino onto the “Inside the Mind of Miles” podcast on Dec. 21, 2020, who could have known just how intertwined their journeys would be over the next few months and next couple of years?

Miles, the one-time coach at Colorado State who was on a coaching hiatus at the time after being fired by the Big Ten’s Nebraska Cornhuskers, was hosting a podcast, and often he asked coaching buddies to be guests.

Pitino at the time was the 6-0 head coach of Minnesota in his eighth season with the Golden Gophers.