During an interview with ESPN's Jay Bilas, former Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino continued to deny that he had any knowledge of an alleged payment from an assistant coach to the family of a high-profile recruit during the player's time with the Cardinals.

The allegations against Louisville include payments of $100,000 to the family of an unnamed player, who is believed to be Brian Bowen.

Pitino said he took a lie detector test a month ago and was asked two questions by the polygraph examiner. He was asked if he had any knowledge of the Bowen family receiving money and whether he had any knowledge of an Adidas transaction. 

"I answered 'absolutely not' on both questions and passed the lie detector test. So I had no knowledge of any of this," Pitino said (via ESPN.com). 

The Hall of Fame coach went on to say that he takes "full responsibility" for anybody he brought into the program, but also stressed that the assistant coaches he hired went through a vetting process. 

"I take full responsibility for anybody I hire," Pitino said. "There's no question about that. I take ownership of that. People have said to me after the Andre McGee thing, 'You need to really vet your assistant coaches.' Well I did vet my assistant coach. ... I've hired some great ones. Did I make some mistakes in the last couple of hires? One hundred percent, yes, but I believe that they were the right people," Pitino said. 

Louisville placed assistant coaches Kenny Johnson and Jordan Fair on paid administrative leave earlier this month, but last week the school announced the dismissal of Fair. 

Louisville's athletic board voted unanimously to fire Pitinio on Monday "for cause", and on Tuesday the former coach announced plans to file a lawsuit against Adidas.