Pitino to coach Puerto Rico next summer (AP)

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Rick Pitino is taking on another rebuilding project. The only men's college basketball coach to lead three teams to the Final Four has agreed to coach the Puerto Rico national team next summer in the FIBA Tournament of the Americas with an eye toward qualifying for the 2012 Olympics. "It's a tall order and that's why I'm taking it," the Louisville coach said Monday.

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