Richard Pitino is the new head basketball coach at Xavier, joining his legendary father in the Big East coaching ranks.He heads to Xavier from New Mexico, where he led the Lobos to the past two NCAA Tournaments. He replaces Sean Miller, who was announced as the head coach at Texas on Monday.Pitino has a career record of 247-186 in his 13 seasons as head coach at Florida International (2012-13), Minnesota (2013-21) and New Mexico (2021-25).”We are excited to welcome Richard Pitino as our new men’s basketball head coach,” Xavier athletic director Greg Christopher said late Tuesday. “He has proven himself as a winner as a head coach at New Mexico and has an impressive resume of success before that as a head coach at Minnesota. His success as an assistant stood out, especially his time working for his father, Rick Pitino, at Louisville and Billy Donovan at Florida. We had tremendous interest in our head coaching position. It became clear that Richard was the right fit for Xavier to take us to championship success in the Big East and NCAA Tournament.”Pitino, 42, said he welcomes the challenge.”Xavier is one of the great brands in all of college basketball,” he said. “It has always been a dream of mine to coach in the Big East.”