‘The Sweatshirt Video Game’: Rick Pitino pays tribute to Lou Carnesecca

• J.J. Post, ESPNDec 7, 2024, 05:02 PM ET With the St. John’s Red Storm honoring famous coach Lou Carnesecca– who died last Saturday at age 99– present males’s basketball coach Rick Pitino paid tribute in a distinctively fitting manner.Editor’s Picks

Pitino has actually been known for donning a wide range of slick, styled Italian matches on the sidelines throughout his profession, but he went with an appearance versus the Kansas State Wildcats that would make Carnesecca proud– a patterned sweater.It wasn’t simply any sweatshirt, either.” The Sweatshirt Video game”… 40 seasons later pic.twitter.com/VgZtNwUcMV!.?.!— St. John’s Male’s Basketball(

@StJohnsBBall )December 7, 2024 Just like Pitino and his suits, Carnesecca

was well-known in his own training heyday for sporting loud sweaters. Maybe his most iconic knit appearance came during the Red Storm’s 1985 Final 4 season, when Carnesecca used a brown sweatshirt with a red and blue “V”pattern on the front during a winning streak.The 19-game win streak came to an end with”the sweater game “in between top-ranked St. John’s and the then-No. 2 ranked Georgetown Hoyas 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. Georgetown coach John Thompson reveals his own reproduction of St. John’s coach Lou Carnesecca’siconic sweatshirt to Carnesecca before the two groups played on Feb. 27, 1985. Georgetown would go on to win the “sweater game”85-69. NY Daily News Archive through Getty Images “I didn’t mind him attempting to upstage me, however what was the worst part

, he beat me that night. That truly injured. He might have kept the sweater!”Carnesecca remembered years later.Pitino had his own replica of the iconic brown sweater customized, which he set down on the midcourt logo design at Carnesecca Arena once the game concluded.Kansas State coach Jerome Tang also commemorated Carnesecca with a purple sweatshirt of his own. The Red Storm beat the

Wildcats 88-71 to transfer to 7-2 on the season.