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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Because time measures history even as it moves on from it, and because college basketball remains perpetually dictated by larger-than-life coaches with enormous levels of power, money and personality, the latest chapter in a relationship that is not, in fact, a relationship, is going to play out here on Saturday with great anticipation. It might feel like nostalgia. Or a hallucination.
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Rick Pitino, coaching the St. John’s Red Storm, and John Calipari, coaching the Arkansas Razorbacks, will go head-to-head for the 24th time in a college game. Pitino is 72. Calipari is 66. Their first matchup was in
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