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On Saturday, Rick Pitino's Louisville Cardinal team will face Gardner-Webb in Louisville. The next day, he will head to Miami to meet with Carlos Arroyo and J.J. Barea to discuss coaching Puerto Rico's national team."He's very excited and it's almost a done deal," Barea told ESPN Wednesday. "And I'm excited for it. We need a guy like that. It's going to help us as a team."
Puerto Rico, who last played in the Olympics in 2004 when they pasted the United States, is hoping to qualify in 2012. In Athens, they smoked the Americans 92-73. Barea, for one, is optimistic about adding Pitino.
"He'll bring defense and discipline and I think guys will listen to him more than they listen to the guys in Puerto Rico just because he's Rick Pitino," Barea said in the ESPN story.
Pitino would lead Puerto Rico to Argentina in the summer of 2011 to play in the Olympic Qualifying Tournament. If successful, they will qualify for the 2012 games in London.
Pitino has been mum on the subject, but it is speculated he will take the position.
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