Pre-order your Coach Rick Pitino Bobblehead. Coach Pitino is the only coach to win a national championship at two different schools (Kentucky and Louisville) and the first coach to lead three different schools (Providence, Kentucky and Louisville) to the Final Four. Once the Red Storm is announced as one of the 2025 tourney participants, Pitino will have taken six different schools to the NCAA Tournament: Boston University, Providence, Kentucky, Louisville, Iona, and St. John’s.
On Saturday, December 7th – one week after Lou Carnesecca died at age 99 – current St. John’s coach Rick Pitino paid tribute to the legendary coach in a fitting manner for his team’s game against Kansas State at Carnesecca Arena in Queens, New York. While Pitino has been known for donning slick, styled Italian suit on the sidelines, Carnesecca was well-known for sporting loud sweaters. Carnesecca’s most iconic knit look came during the Red Storm’s 1985 Final Four season, when he wore a brown sweater with a red and blue “V” pattern on the front during a winning streak. The 19-game win streak came to an end in the “Sweater Game” between top-ranked St. John’s and then-No. 2 Georgetown at Madison Square Garden, where Georgetown coach John Thompson walked up to Carnesecca before the game and revealed he was wearing a replica of the lucky sweater himself. For the game against Kansas State, Pitino had his own replica of the iconic brown sweater tailored, which he set down on the midcourt logo at Carnesecca Arena after the game. The bobblehead is officially licensed by St. John's University.
- Expected to ship in September 2025
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Bobblehead is high quality and produced by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum
- 8 inches tall
- Individually numbered to 2,025
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