It's Pitino vs. Pitino for the Gopher season opener
Louisville coach Rick Pitino, left, greets his son Richard Pitino before a basketball game in 2012. The Pitinos will face each other in Puerto Rico tonight.
Timothy D. Easley / AP 2012
The University of Minnesota Golden Gopher men's basketball team is in Puerto Rico to play Louisville tonight. The game, which will take place inside a U.S. Coast Guard airplane hangar, pits University of Minnesota head coach Richard Pitino against his father Rick Pitino who is Louisville's head coach of Louisville.
MPR's Phil Picardi spoke with Howard Sinker, a digital sports editor for the Star Tribune, about the game which is the 2014-15 opener for the Gophers.
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