Rick Pitino Shares GREATEST March Madness Finish Ever, Recruiting Rick Brunson + Yelling At Practice
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
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0:00 - Intro
1:20 - Starting the College Basketball Season
4:19 - Taking care of his players
10:32 - Going Viral
12:39 - Donovan Mitchell
18:29 - Building Character
23:50 - The Greatest March Madness finish ever?
26:34 - Snapping at practices
29:41 - Similarities on different Knicks teams
31:10 - Loud NBA Arenas
33:20 - Loudest College Arenas
35:56 - College Basketball Super Conference?
38:46 - DoorDash Ad
40:05 - Tri-State Ford Ad
40:51 - SimpliSafe Ad
41:52 - Recruiting Pitch for Rick Brunson
44:25 - Chicago is playing well
46:05 - Rick Carlisle
47:55 - A Different brand of Coaching
49:50 - Team Dynamics
51:59 - Josh's flight movie selection
54:00 - Fan Questions for Rick
58:34 - Macy's Holiday Traditions
1:00:51 - Thanks to Coach Pitino
1:01:15 - Macy's Ad
1:02:19 - Sports Headlines
1:05:26 - Tommy John Ad
1:06:29 - Baller of The Week
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1:09:05 - Picks of the Week
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1:11:05 - Fan Questions
1:17:53 - AT&T Ad
1:18:53 - Outro
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| 0:00.0 | When Donovan Mitchell came to me, and I watched him in summer basketball and I loved him. I thought he was a freak athlete, but couldn't shoot. So I called him up and I said, I want you to visit Louisville. I can really help you. Watch the player development session. I'm going to put you on a split screen with Steph Curry. I'm going to show you Steph Curry's arc. I'm going to show you your arc. So we did it. Went through it. On Sunday, he's getting ready to leave with his mom. Saturday night we have we have dinner. I don't know what's he said coach where's the restroom? I said it's in the back and my phone is blowing up in my pocket and my kids are telling me that Donaldvin Mitchell just committed. He went in the bathroom, we went on Twitter and committed to Louis. He came back and said, coach, stand up. |
| 0:39.5 | That's the way. He said, give me a hug. |
| 0:41.1 | I'm a Louisville Cardinal. Let's get it. Let's go. Let's get it. |
| 0:56.1 | What's up, everybody, and welcome to another episode of The Routemate Show, presented by |
| 1:03.4 | BetMGM. |
| 1:05.0 | Obviously, as all the ways you have young Matthew over here. |
| 1:09.1 | We got the captain of New York here. |
| 1:13.8 | And then we have the OG, Rick Petino. |
| 1:14.2 | How are you? |
| 1:15.2 | I'm great. |
| 1:19.8 | We appreciate you blessing our podcast with the visit. |
| 1:20.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:24.2 | First off, you know, good start to the season. |
| 1:27.3 | You guys, you got one and O. You have one-0. Yeah, 1-0. |
| 1:28.3 | We're playing Alabama on Saturday. |
| 1:31.9 | And they're the number one |
| 1:33.8 | tempo team. |
| 1:35.9 | They shoot the ball within 15 seconds |
| 1:37.5 | every time down the court. |
| 1:38.8 | I put it up. |
| 1:41.0 | I'll tell you what. |
| 1:41.5 | They're the opposite of New York Knicks last year. |
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