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Rick Pitino Explains His Suit Change

As FanHouse's Charles Rich noted yesterday, Louisville head coach Rick Pitino changed suits at halftime of his team's game against Georgetown, and it worked: The Cardinals went from trailing 31-23 to winning 59-51. ESPN's Erin Andrews made the wardrobe change the focal point of her post-game interview:

"My suit was fine, I just spilled Diet Pepsi or Diet Coke all over it at halftime," Pitino said.

After the jump, ESPN makes even more of an issue out of the wardrobe change.


Before the game, ESPN's Rece Davis called Pitino's white suit, which was part of a ploy by Louisville to get all of its fans to wear white for the game, "One of the more remarkable sartorial things we've seen in the history of college basketball":

And if that seems like overkill, also note that Dick Vitale called Pitino a part of his "All-GQ team":