Pitino, who's in contention for coach of the year, has taken quite the journey back to the grandest stage of college basketball since being fired at Louisville, where he won a national title. He'll face a coach he's very familiar with, and the one who replaced him after he left the Wildcats.

Standing in the middle of a sold-out Madison Square Garden, confetti sticking to his suit, Rick Pitino was asked about his remarkable basketball odyssey and latest Big East championship.

St. John's basketball coach Rick Pitino joined Jimmy Fallon on 'The Tonight Show' Thursday. Here are some highlights from the appearance:

Calipari was being ridiculed with great delight over his Kentucky team's first-round loss to 14th-seeded Oakland.

John Calipari and Rick Pitino will face off for the fifth time in the NCAA Tournament when No. 2 seed St. John's faces No. 10 seed Arkansas in on Saturday in a second-round game in the West Region, with a trip to the Sweet 16 on the line.

Rick Pitino and John Calipari faced off for the 30th time on Saturday when St. John's and Arkansas battled in the NCAA Tournament second round.