Tim Cluess, a member of one of the New York area's most prominent basketball families, takes over an Iona team expected to be among the favorites next season in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

Rick Pitino's return to the NCAA Tournament might make him the man of the hour, but he passes some of that credit to the man who came before him, former Iona coach Tim Cluess. "We've had so many great ...

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — Hall of Famer Rick Pitino was named basketball coach at Iona College on Saturday. Pitino coached at Louisville from 2001-17 before being fired in a pay-for-play scandal and had ...

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — Hall of Famer Rick Pitino was named basketball coach at Iona College on Saturday. Pitino coached at Louisville from 2001-17 before being fired in a pay-for-play scandal and had ...

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Connecticut head coach Jim Calhoun reacts during a game against West Virginia in the second round of the Big East NCAA college basketball conference tournament in New York, Wednesday, March 7, 2012.

PITTSBURGH — As he prepares his players to face astronomical odds, as they will when they open the NCAA Tournament Thursday against Duke, Iona coach Tim Cluess offers only one piece of advice: “Don’t ...

C.W. Post basketball coach Tim Cluess will be named the head coach at Iona Thursday, officials at the New Rochelle campus said late Wednesday. Cluess was a surprise winner whose name surfaced after ...

In the short time since he learned that incoming recruit Michael Haynes had been shot and killed in Chicago on Thursday night, Iona coach Tim Cluess can't stop dwelling on one aspect of the tragedy.