Pitino To End Coaching Career

{Louisville, Kentucky}...University of Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino said Tuesday that he won't coach past the 2016-2017 season when his current contract ends. Louisville's Athletic Association granted Pitino, the only men's coach to lead three different programs to the Final Four, a four-year contract extension in August. He'll make $3 million in base salary until the end of the 2013 season, followed by $3.9 million a year. Pitino is 253-96 in his 11th season at Louisville, which reached the Final Four in 2005. Pitino went 219-50 in eight seasons at Kentucky and won the 1996 national championship.