Why does steve lavin wear white shoes

At a press conference earlier this season, Kentucky's John Calipari responded to a question about coaching attire to take a couple of jabs at rivals Pitino and Huggins.

Calipari suggested there had been a few suits he'd seen that made him want to gag. There was a gold suit that I saw—I don't know if it was yellow or gold—where the pants were too long. The guy at West Virginia wore it.

The larger question, of course, is whether clothes have any impact on the outcome. Like a lot of coaches, Pitino seems to think it's possible. With his Cardinals trailing Georgetown at halftime in , he changed into darker threads in the locker room. Louisville erased an eight-point deficit and won. Three years ago, coaching for the first time against Cincinnati—where he'd coached for years—Huggins donned the now-famous four-button gold suit.

The Mountaineers lost by 23 points. For the next game, he reverted to his tracksuit, which was also his choice at last year's Final Four. Glenn O'Brien, GQ's style maven, said that in the black warmups, Huggins "looks like a scary Jesuit assistant principal. Experts say the one look that never fails is the form-fitting dark suit. A coach prone to prolific sweating should invest in a lightweight jacket designed for summer.

And instead of a pastel coat, why not a blazer with a university crest? Dressed in a navy blue pinstriped suit, an open-collared shirt, and white tennis shoes, Lavin would go on to swear that his days of wearing a tie to the gym are over. Lavin is not your most conventional coach, but he's made a quicker transition to the Garden bench than did another out-of-towner, Mike D'Antoni, and he's got two classrooms full of Melo-like recruits on the way.

But Saturday was more journey, less destination. Three thousand miles away from the Knicks' pursuit of Carmelo Anthony, St. John's savored a sweet moment in the city's basketball renaissance when its coach threw out the playbook and told his kids to soak it all in.

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