Pitino told Seth Davis he has only seen Louisville play for a few minutes, but he knows what’s happening there. He’ll give you chapter and verse about how the Kentucky governor stuffed Louisville’s Board of Trustees with Kentucky fans who engineered his ouster: “They torched the program,” he said — but he insisted that he takes no pleasure in seeing the place burn. “I don’t revel in the demise of the program at all, I love the people at Louisville, the fans there, the tradition. I want them to do well. I’ve tried to lose my bitterness about what happened. I was falsely accused, and I’ve moved on to greener pastures.”