Jaden Daly
@DalyDoseOfHoops
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Independent college basketball writer based in NY metro area since 2009. @USBWA member covering MAAC, Big East, Rutgers, local mid-majors, UNC, zebra alerts.
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Joined November 2010
April 17th is always a day of celebration, because it was that date on which the website I’ve now cultivated came to be in 2009. My latest look back took a record 12,647 words to summarize. This is the epilogue for year 15. I hope you enjoy it.
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Hurley on what his wife, Andrea, might say had he taken the Kentucky job: “We just went to Rhode Island, which I had to drag her to, and then to Connecticut, I got her closer (to New Jersey). I can’t afford a divorce right now, I just started making money.” #UConn #BleedBlue.
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Pitino: “Young people are different these days. I’m still struggling with it…I’m not quitting like some other coaches, but I’m struggling. I gave up drinking for New Year’s, but after today, I think I might have the shortest resolution in the history of mankind.” #sjubb.
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Rick Pitino: “My vision is to play every game at Madison Square Garden, conference-wise. It has to be at a major facility. Carnesecca Arena is not big enough for the brand of basketball we’re gonna build.” #sjubb.
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A picture is worth a thousand words: @TylerNelson14 gets a big hug from @CoachJStags on the completion of a legendary career.
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Pitino: “We kind of lost this season with the way we recruited. We recruited the antithesis of the way I coach. It’s a good group, they try hard, but they’re just not very tough.” #sjubb.
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Pitino: “I told Mullin when I first got the job, I said, ‘Chris, I’m nothing in this program compared to you. This is your home, your program. I’m just a caretaker for Lou, that’s all I am. So please come back to your home. You’re the most celebrated player in history.’” #sjubb.
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Pitino: “We are so unathletic that we can’t guard anybody without fouling. For me, I’ve always enjoyed the first year, and I’m not gonna lie to you: This is the most unenjoyable experience of my lifetime. This has been so disappointing.” #sjubb.
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Hurley on Tristen Newton: “He should be talked about as one of the best guards in the country, but people who watch TikTok highlights and don’t watch the game are the ones judging. They don’t know shit.” #UConn #BleedBlue.
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Seven straight out of the half for #UConn, and Underwood will talk. I’ll let the crowd tell the story.
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Rick Pitino: “We need to get in a multi-bid league. I think the Atlantic 10 — with Loyola Chicago coming in, Archie Miller taking over at Rhode Island and Frank Martin at UMass — is gonna take off.” #ICMBB.
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Greg McDermott: “I’m really excited and proud of our team, but it’s hard to be in too much of a celebratory mood until we get a full report on the extent of Ryan Nembhard’s injury. I’ve been doing this 33 years…I’ve never been as proud of a team as I am tonight.” #GoJays.
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Some sad news to pass along this morning: The great Tom Konchalski is being transitioned into hospice care later today. Keep this living legend in your thoughts and prayers if you can.
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Hurley: “Alex does a shitty job of drawing attention to himself. Maybe if he did more TikToks, he’d have solidified his All-American status. We value the wrong things in sports. We don’t value champions, but maybe that’s a societal issue.” #UConn #BleedBlue.
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Here’s the full quote from Hurley on the Big East possibly only getting three bids. Great question from @NYPost_Brazille:. “First off, if Seton Hall is not in, that’s embarrassing, and there’s a larger problem relative to the respect that the Big East gets.” (1/4).
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Cam Spencer on technical: “I don’t think I’ve ever had one before, in college at least.”. Hurley: “He gets a shitload of ’em in practice.”. #UConn #BleedBlue.
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A mid-major is now guaranteed to play for a national championship. If you’re the NCAA or CBS, you hate this. If you’re a college basketball fan, you love it.
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Shaka Smart: “I was at VCU for six years, and we had a sellout streak over 100 when I left. I learned not to take for granted that the arena was full.” #mubb #LetsGoVCU.
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Mike Anderson: “It’s not my first rodeo, so for all the haters, keep doing it. I’m even more motivated than I’ve ever been. Whether I’m a country boy, city boy, I’m loving St. John’s and I’m loving New York.” #sjubb.
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Rick Pitino: “I asked about the character of the basketball team. To be honest, I didn’t get glowing reports, but I did get a glowing report on Joel Soriano. We’re gonna bring him to a level he didn’t even think he could reach.” #sjubb.
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Shaheen Holloway: “When I took the job, everybody told me, ‘it’s a bad job, don’t take it.’ But like I said, sometimes you gotta believe in yourself, you gotta bet on yourself. Everywhere I’ve been, I’ve done that. That’s who I am.” #MAACHoops #StrutUp.
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I’ve seen Purdue live. I’ve seen #UConn live. The comparison between the two is not close. No disrespect to the Boilermakers, but I can’t see Purdue playing this kind of a game against a Top 5 team like the Huskies just did. UConn 81, Marquette 53 your final in Hartford.
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Pitino just fired a zinger at @NYPost_Brazille:. ZACH: “Rick, do you have any nerves for Sunday?”.RICK: “Your paper said we were going dancing! Why would I have any nerves? The New York Post is the Bible, who else am I gonna believe? I was dancing all last night!”. #sjubb.
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Shaheen Holloway: “A group of guys came in here who no one gave a chance to, no one believed in, and made history. They shocked the world. It’s a story within a story. They came in and made history. Point blank, period.” #MAACHoops #StrutUp.
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Hurley: “Tomorrow’s gonna be brutal. The video session’s gonna be crushing. The accountability is gonna be super high and we’re gonna be brutally honest about what happened here tonight. We’ll act appropriately. When we lose at #UConn, everyone hurts.”.
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Miller on #UConn: “When I was playing, Duke had Christian Laettner, Danny’s brother Bobby, Grant Hill…and I think UConn, in its rightful place, is them right now. I don’t think college basketball has seen a better winner than Alex Karaban.”.
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Can everyone do me a favor today?. I understand certain college basketball media types are being dragged through the mud today, but can we please leave Fanta out of this? John did nothing wrong here, and shouldn’t be lumped in with all the other vitriol. Be better, everyone.
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Rick Pitino: “I’d like to give a special shoutout to Tim Cluess. Nobody did a better job than Tim Cluess. he was one of the premier coaches in the country, and Tim, wherever you are, we share this with you tonight.” #ICMBB.
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Pitino: “Look: Joel’s slow laterally, he’s not fast on the court. Chris Ledlum is slow laterally, Sean Conway’s slow laterally. Brady’s physically weak, Drissa is slow laterally.” #sjubb.
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The streak lives to fight another day. Providence is now 22-0 all-time with @John_Fanta on the call after the first test on the road ends in a gritty Friar victory. #pcbb
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Never in my 15-year career, or even before that, did I expect a #MAACHoops team to reach a regional final. For that, @PeacocksMBB deserves to be celebrated and remembered through the ages. What Shaheen Holloway and his team did was unparalleled, unbelievable, special. #StrutUp.
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Hurley: “I can already see it in the AP poll, the lack of respect that the Big East gets. We should have five teams, minimum, in the Top 20. Marquette, Creighton, Xavier should be highly ranked, you got what St. John’s has done. We should all be ranked in the Top 20.” #UConn.
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Rick Pitino: “If I had a choice for when I could die, it would probably be on the sidelines. Just roll a seven right there.”.
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One last quiet court at the RAC, and fittingly, that’s Caleb McConnell out there dropping the curtain on the old barn. You don’t see many like him anymore, that’s for sure. #RHoops #TheKnighthood
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If any West Virginia fans follow me: You’re getting one of the most talented and humble players I’ve had the privilege to cover over 15 years in the New York/New Jersey media, a kid who will win you over right away and stop at nothing to better himself. Our loss is your gain.
Morgantown West Virginia📍.
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Hurley: “If you play for four or five schools in four years, you’re kind of a mercenary at that point and you have no base in life.”.
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Pitino: “It’s not the job. You could be at Missouri and recruit slow players. Believe me, it’s not St. John’s. We had to put together a team at the last second. We will never, ever, do that again.” #sjubb.
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Steve Pikiell: “First, I’d like to quickly mention our radio announcer, Coach Joe Boylan. He’s in the hospital. We’re thinking about you, Coach.” #RHoops #GardenStatement.
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Cooley: “For St. John’s not to be ranked, I don’t know who some of these voters are, you’re blind. Wake up. That’s one of the best teams we’ve played all year. Anyone behind that iron mic who has a vote, wake your ass up.” #Hoyas.
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My sources tell me that Jose Perez will receive a decision on the appeal West Virginia filed for his eligibility waiver that was initially denied last month, and that he could be available for the Mountaineers Saturday against Kansas if all goes well.
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Karaban: “The fans always show out whenever we play at MSG. This isn’t the first time #UConn Nation has helped us.”.
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UConn should be at the line shooting three for the tie here. Breeding absolutely botched that one.
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BREAKING: Red Panda will be performing at halftime of ALL FOUR Big East quarterfinals on Thursday. Best news you’ll see all day.
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Hurley: “To get to where we were, the work that this staff did, I just think we get like-minded people to come and play here. We just try to recruit winners and people that it’s never enough for. Whatever we are now, 24-2, it’s never enough. We have people like that.” #UConn.
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#UConn’s current roster:.Hassan Diarra.Alex Karaban (testing draft waters).Samson Johnson.Jaylin Stewart.Solo Ball.Youssouf Singare.Jayden Ross.Andre Johnson.Andrew Hurley.Ahmad Nowell.Isaiah Abraham.Liam McNeeley.Tarris Reed (Michigan transfer).Aidan Mahaney (SMC transfer).
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Rick Pitino: “I’ll play New Mexico at the Garden. Let’s go, @LoboCoachPitino. You need to come to Madison Square Garden. He still owes me a game.” #sjubb.
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Hurley on Big East going 6-0 in NCAA: “Look what we’ve done in non-conference games, MTEs, NCAA Tournaments. There should have been five or six Big East teams in this tournament…you see how other leagues who got bids over us have underperformed.” #UConn #BleedBlue.
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Wilcher: “When you win, you get all of New York City to back you, and I feel like that’s what’s happening now.” #sjubb.
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Dan Hurley: “Storrs, Connecticut is the basketball capital of the world. We’ll come into a season with a chip on our shoulder, or two chips, and that’s why I think this program is as successful as it’s been. We don’t carry complacency.” #UConn.
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Pitino: “About three weeks ago, the administration and I were talking. I could sense in their minds, (the season) was over. In our minds, it was just beginning.” #sjubb.
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Pitino: “That’s why next year, the only game we’re playing at Carnesecca is Connecticut. The rest, we’re gonna negotiate.”. When asked by @NYPost_Brazille if the comment was serious: “100 percent. I have my reasons.” #sjubb #UConn.
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Rick Pitino has never faced an opponent quite like St. John’s public safety. Conversely, St. John’s public safety has also never seen an opponent quite like Rick Pitino.
I apologize to all our great fans that had to wait a long time to get into sold out Carneseca. I can assure you this will never happen again.
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Hurley: “Like I said in New York, the Big East is a monster and iron sharpens iron. It should have been a six-bid league, and I just think the league prepares us for these games.” #UConn #BleedBlue.
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Pitino: “RJ is a great talent who’s gonna give me a nervous breakdown. Throwing the ball off the guy’s rear end off an inbounds pass? Some of the things he does are going to age me. Some of things he does make me 90 years of age…I’m close to Looie now.” #sjubb.
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Jose Perez has informed me that he intends to enter the transfer portal in the wake of Steve Masiello’s dismissal at Manhattan. Perez, the MAAC preseason player of the year, was returning for his senior season, and his bond with Masiello transcended the basketball court.
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Pitino on Dunlap: “He’ll be alright. If he’d stop biting his shirt and pay attention to scouting, it would help us tremendously.” #sjubb.
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Say what you want about Rick Pitino, but there was one quote from his press conference that resonated beyond the game:. “If you have humility, you’re gonna get better. If you have an ego, you’re gonna get delusional.”. Useful and meaningful in all walks of life.
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Rick Pitino: “I love coaching at Iona, I love my players. I hate this league…I hate being in a one-bid league.” #MAACHoops.
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Today a peacock, tomorrow a feather duster. Lou Carnesecca is neither in this moment. He is now immortal, an angel having received his wings. A reflection on the patron saint of St. John’s basketball, who left us today at 99: #sjubb
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BREAKING: @John_Fanta will be on the call for @PCFriarsmbb’s Saturday night home game against Creighton, in which the Friars can clinch the Big East regular season championship with a win. For those of you scoring at home, Providence is 13-0 all-time with Fanta on the call. #pcbb.
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Dan Hurley on being picked third: “It’s all a bunch of shit, so it doesn’t matter.” #UConn.
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Pitino: “We got it rolling right now, and winning does that. This is New York, it’s all about winning in New York. It’s a shame Lou’s not alive…he’d be very proud of this team with how they fight. We really want to get St. John’s back where it belongs.” #sjubb.
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Shaheen Holloway: “Saint Peter’s made it to the Elite 8. Great story, you guys should write about that. I’m gonna end it on that.”. Mic drop. #MAACHoops #StrutUp.
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Hurley: “I’m not sure Liam, when he gets back, is gonna fix the lack of tenacity we have right now. We’re a shell of ourselves from a defensive standpoint, we’ve only won the rebounding battle twice in the Big East.” #UConn.
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Once again, I’ll let the crowd tell the story after a Karaban three prompts a Painter timeout. #UConn 56, Purdue 40, 9:27 still to play. #BleedBlue
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Shaka Smart: “Our guys are in the locker room clowning around, but you know what? That’s Kam Jones. I could tell him to be like me, but I don’t shoot like him. So I’m fine with him being him.” #mubb.
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On this day in 2009, I started Daly Dose Of Hoops with no clear vision of what it would become. Today, it turns 14, and as I do every April 17th, I recap my journey during the season. Here’s all 10,592 words of this year’s epilogue. I hope you enjoy it.
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Hurley: “We’re returning basically no one. And then you have players in the league that have played against Josh Carlton. It’s just so unique, the position that we’re in.” #UConn #BleedBlue.
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This quote from @JulianChampagn2 should get St. John’s fans fired up:. “We want to come out and execute like our life’s depending on it. We’re going to run through brick walls for our fans, and we’re also going to run through brick walls for our teammates and our coaches.” #sjubb.
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#UConn has won eight straight games at Madison Square Garden in a span of 361 days, more than any other college basketball team that has played here.
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STORRS, Conn. — The basketball capital of the world. It took almost 18 years, but I’ve finally made it up here. Game #31, and @UConnMBB’s return home as the Huskies face @PCFriarsmbb. #UConn #pcbb
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Sha: “I think the future’s bright. We’ve got five juniors coming back, I thought Clarence had a great year, Juju had a great year, three guys sat out. When you get e-mails saying I want my son to play for you, I admire what you’re doing, I think the future’s pretty bright.”.
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Hurley: “There’s a lot of truth to what some of these conferences did relative to manipulating the NET. When you look at some resumes of some of these programs, they literally beat nobody in the non-conference.” (4/4).
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Rick Pitino: “This year, I think St. John’s is going to be the most improved team in the country.” #sjubb.
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Finally listening back to the Hurley locker room scrum audio as I write this column I’m about to share. On Clingan: “I know they had him for five (blocks), but I’d imagine we’re gonna go back and look. We WILL send a petition in, trust me, because we’re petty like that.” #UConn.
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Pitino to @NYPost_Brazille, in jest: “I think you’re hurting the team by fucking bringing it up all the time. So do me a favor, because I love you: Don’t fucking mention it anymore. My respect for you is great. Stop mentioning the 3-point line. You’re jinxing us. It’s bad karma.”.
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Pitino: “Do we have shitty facilities? Yes, we do. But we’re doing something about that.” #sjubb.
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Martelli on MSG: “You’re gonna get pissed, but it’s the second-best basketball arena. Because everybody knows The Palestra is the best basketball arena.”.
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Dre Davis being presented with the second annual J.P. Pelzman award, recognizing his accessibility for and interactions with the media. Tyrese Samuel was the inaugural recipient last year. A tradition established by @NJHoopsHaven to honor our late great colleague. #shbb #HALLin
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Steve Pikiell on senior day: “When they came here four years ago, we didn’t have a lot of fans, we didn’t have a lot of traditions. We need to have everyone here (Sunday), it needs to be an unbelievable sendoff. They deserve it.” #RHoops #GardenStatement @RURiotSquad.
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Andrew Hurley has more national championships than Jim Boeheim.
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Sha mentioned multiple times that he told his team it got a chance to represent Seton Hall for a different audience than it’s been used to. That different audience also got to see what we’ve known in NY and NJ for years, that Sha is just a first-class dude. #shbb #HALLin.
After Seton Hall wins the NIT Title, Shaheen Holloway **quite literally** tells Robbie Avila to keep his chin up. This is respect between two great representatives of college hoops. This is sportsmanship at the highest level.
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Enough about Ukraine. What will either of you do to make sure the Big East gets more than three teams into the NCAA Tournament? #Debate2024.
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BREAKING: Providence is now 10-0 with @John_Fanta on the call. Someone treat him to dinner on Fed Hill tonight, please. #pcbb.
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This is how Sha ended his press conference tonight, and this is how he’s always been since I interviewed him for the first time five years ago at Saint Peter’s. In a world of coachspeak, the brutal honesty is refreshing. And it’s why those who know Sha well love him so much.
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This is a since-deleted tweet from Iona’s Isaiah Washington, possibly in regard to the Rick Pitino rumors. Remember, Washington transferred to Iona from Minnesota, where Pitino’s son, Richard, is still the head coach: #MAACHoops #ICMBB
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