Whew! It just really hasn't been the best of weeks for Big East Basketball now has it? First Seton Hall fires Coach Bobby Gonzalez, then the 1st day of the NCAA Tourney sees Notre Dame, Marquette and Georgetown all lose in their 1st game and now this.
As we had told you last week, St. John's made it official today and parted ways with Head Coach Norm Roberts. The Red Storm did make it to the NIT Tournament, but lost their 1st game at the buzzer to Memphis.
More on the firing from the New York Daily News RIGHT HERE
((Norm Roberts//Courtesy: Cataffo/NYDaily News))
Roberts does leave the Red Storm in better shape then when he got there. However he was unable to get them to the NCAA Tourney, with this years NIT bid being their 1st Tournament action during his tenure. He had an overall record of 81-101.
There will be lots of speculation on who will take over the job since the cupboard is not bare. With a good young squad led by Anthony Mason Jr. (yes, the son of the former NBA guy), the talent level isn't bad. We had speculated last week that Georgia Tech Coach Paul Hewitt might be the guy, however, Hewitt's contract just rolled over at Tech and it would be an expensive proposition for him to leave Atlanta.
Here again is Lloyd Bridges from the Movie Airplane talking about a bad week: Thanks You Tube....
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