From part one in our Zack Cziryak interview with Jon Rothstein


.................The transfer Rothstein is most confident in making that impact felt on this year’s Seton Hall roster is Dawes, who should provide an instant offensive jolt with his shooting ability.

"I've always felt that Al-Amir Dawes was as comfortable in his own skin as any guard in the ACC the last couple of years because he knows what he's good at and he's good at what he knows,” Rothstein said. “And I think, you look at one thing that's never going to go away when you talk about needs for winning teams, the uncanny ability to shoot the basketball. The last two years, he's been right at 39% from three.”

“I wouldn't expect him to be, you know, an all-Big East first team caliber player, but now all of a sudden there's somebody next to Kadary Richmond who can take pressure off of him and open up driving lane opportunities,” he continued. “I mean, this guy last year, again, made over 80 3s and now you add that to some of the other capabilities that this team has from a shooting perspective. All of a sudden now there are guys on the floor that can extend the defense."

We asked coaches who was the best hire of the busy 2022 coaching carousel​

By Gary Parrish


CBS Sports college basketball writers Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander surveyed roughly 100 coaches for our annual Candid Coaches series. They polled everyone from head coaches at elite programs to assistants at some of the smallest Division I schools. In exchange for complete anonymity, the coaches provided unfiltered honesty about a number of topics. Over the next few weeks, we'll be posting the results of the questions asked.

Some of the biggest jobs in college basketball were officially filed after last season -- among them Duke, Maryland, Louisville and Florida, each of which has won a national championship the past two decades.

There were lots of interesting hires. But which school made the best hire?

We asked roughly 100 college coaches that exact question. What they told us is reflected below.

Who was the best head-coaching hire in 2022?​

Others receiving votes: Dan Earl, Chattanooga; Chris Gerlufsen, San Francisco; Jonas Hayes, Georgia State; Rob Lanier, SMU; Bart Lundy, Milwaukee

Adam Rittenberg
ESPN Senior Writer

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark isn't bashful about his expansion strategy. He wants to go west.

Speaking Wednesday during a visit to future Big 12 member Cincinnati, Yormark told reporters that the league would be interested in adding members from the Pacific time zone. The new commissioner has taken a bold approach toward expansion, saying at football media days, "The Big 12 is open for business."

"Obviously, going out west is where I would like to go, entering that fourth time zone," Yormark said Wednesday.

He added of the Big 12's wish list: "A program that has national recognition, one that competes at the highest level in basketball and football, stands for the right things, is a good cultural fit."

The Big 12's strategy to target potential Pac-12 members for expansion has set off friction between the leagues, especially in the wake of the Pac-12 losing USC and UCLA to the Big Ten beginning in 2024.

Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff, asked about Yormark's "open for business" comment at his league's football media day, shot back, saying, "I appreciate that. We haven't decided if we're going shopping there yet or not."

Kliavkoff would later add: "I've been spending four weeks trying to defend against grenades that have been lobbed in from every corner of the Big 12, trying to destabilize our remaining conference."

The Pac-12 declined to comment on Yormark's Wednesday remarks.

Both the Pac-12 and Big 12 elected to accelerate discussions with ESPN and Fox about their media rights agreements, which are set to expire in 2024 and 2025, respectively. The Big 12's formal, exclusive negotiating window with both media partners wasn't set to begin until February 2024.

Yormark said Wednesday that he had "great meetings" with ESPN last week and will meet next week with Fox, adding that he senses both want to begin negotiations soon.

A lot of big names and big men are back including last season's national player of the year, Kentucky's Oscar Tshiebwe​

By Matt Norlander


Graphic by Keytron Jordan

CBS Sports' Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander surveyed roughly 100 coaches for our annual Candid Coaches series. They polled everyone from head coaches at elite programs to assistants at small Division I schools. In exchange for complete anonymity, these coaches provided unfiltered honesty about a number of topics. Over the course of three weeks we are posting the results of our summer survey on the state of college basketball.

The 2022-23 season is poised to prominently feature as many big-time big men than any year college basketball has seen in a generation. Of course, this is a byproduct of the NBA no longer valuing traditional centers or lumbering power forwards the way it did for 60 years. But thanks to NIL, and because the college game still features myriad styles and more eclectic lineups than the pros, a litany of high-profile 4s and 5s will be back on the college hardwood.

In a rarity, two CBS Sports First Team All-Americans are returning, something that hasn't happened in a very long time. It also means the national race for player of the year should not only be compelling but should help college hoops' popularity and Q rating among casuals. Some identifiable faces and recognizable names are not just in for another season, they're in uniform for power-brand programs and highly ranked teams.

Here's who coaches believe will be the best. We asked our annual question, and it's a three-man race (for now):


Others receiving multiple votes: Trayce Jackson-Davis, Indiana; Jaime Jaquez, UCLA; Marcus Sasser, Houston

Others receiving a single vote: Max Abmas, Oral Roberts; Hunter Dickinson, Michigan; Keyonte George, Baylor; Derek Lively, Duke; Caleb Love, North Carolina; Nick Smith, Arkansas

Is SHU offering tickets to purchase for the Kansas game?
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Lets Go Hall!!!!!!!!!!!!

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6 p.m. Cocktail Reception
7 p.m. Dinner and Program

Location: Walsh Gymnasium, Seton Hall University

Cohen invited Keith Hernandez to a courtside seat with him.

Hernandez never heard of Hinkle Fieldhouse. LOL

South Orange, N.J. – Seton Hall men's soccer continues its non-conference road swing on Friday night against Fairleigh Dickinson. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. at University Stadium in Teaneck.

LAST TIME OUT
Seton Hall fell on the road to Portland (RV), 3-1, on Monday night. The Pilots notched an early goal in the seventh minute to grab a lead, but the Pirates later equalized on a penalty kick goal from Quenzi Huerman (Vannes, France). Portland's attack proved to be too much in the second half, as the hosts found the back of the net twice late to take home the win.

BE THE BEST, BEAT THE BEST
The Pirates face a tough slate of six non-conference matches to begin the 2022 season, four of which will be away from home. Of those six non-league foes, five of them finished last season with a winning record. This year, the Pirates will take on five teams who finished inside the top-25 in RPI last season (Oregon State: 2, Georgetown: 4, Providence: 14, Creighton: 17, Villanova: 23). The Pirates will also face seven teams that reached the NCAA Tournament in 2021, all of which won at least one match.

The Hall will be facing some of the top teams in the country this season. Along with preseason No. 5 Oregon State, the Pirates also have preseason No. 2 Georgetown on their conference slate. This marks the first time since 2010 that Seton Hall will face two preseason top-five teams in the United Soccer Coaches rankings in the same season.

SCOUTING FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON (2-1-1 THIS SEASON; 8-7-3 / 6-1-2 IN 2021)

• FDU was picked to finish third in the NEC Preseason Poll.
• The Knights are coming off a 2-1 defeat to UMBC, and have scored exactly one goal in their first four matches of the season.
• Welcome back a pair of All-Conference performers in Jordan Alonge and Hugo Bacharach, as well as reigning NEC Rookie of the Year Tony Gomez.
• This will be the 33rd all-time meeting between the New Jersey schools, with Seton Hall holding a 15-13-4 edge. The Pirates took a 2-0 victory in their last meeting during the 2020 season (played in the spring of 2021).
• FDU is seeking its first win over Seton Hall since 2001, and just its second since 1968.

NEWS & NOTES

• Head Coach Andreas Lindberg sits just two wins away from 200 for his career.
• Seton Hall has won its last four matches, and 13 of its last 14, when scoring the first goal.
• The Pirates are unbeaten in their last seven matches against New Jersey schools, going 6-0-1 in those matchups.
• This will be Seton Hall's first trip to FDU since 2002, when the two sides played to a 1-1 draw.
• The win over Oregon State was the Pirates' first over a top-10 team in the United Soccer Coaches rankings since beating No. 2 Georgetown to win the BIG EAST title on Apr. 17, 2021. The win also marked the first time Seton Hall has defeated a top-10 non-conference foe on the road since winning at No. 3 Virginia in the 2001 NCAA Tournament.
• The Pirates conceded just one goal through its first three matches of the season, the program's best defensive start to a season since 2005.
• Luca Dahn has played wire-to-wire in each of his last 11 matches dating back to last season, and has also done so in 37 of his 39 career matches.
• Three Pirates return to the pitch in 2022 as graduate students, as All-BIG EAST Third Team honoree Luca Dahn (Kahl, Germany) joins JP Marin (Briarwood, N.Y.) and Paavo Riihijarvi (Oulu, Finland). The trio combined for seven goals and 18 points during the 2021 season.
• Fellow All-BIG EAST Third Teamer Johannes Pex (Stephansposching, Germany) enters his senior season, fresh off a campaign where he led the Pirates offensively with five goals, five assists and 15 points.
• Fourteen different Pirates found the back of the next last season. Of that group, nine of them return for the 2022 season.
• This season's roster boasts 12 freshmen, the most since the 2018 team which featured the same number.
• The Pirates also welcome in a pair of transfers: junior Quenzi Huerman from Palm Beach Atlantic, and sophomore Tyler Hutchinson (Cliffside Park, N.J.) from Clemson

WATCH
The match will be available to watch live on NEC Front Row. A link to the live stream can be found here.

NBA 2K's official Twitter page has begun to release player ratings, starting with the highest-rated players in the game.

The 2K team is also responding to players who request their ratings, giving fans a few bonus ratings reveals throughout the coming days.

Below, you can find a list of the ratings we know so far. (Note: This is an incomplete list and will be updated as more ratings are revealed.)

HAMILTON, N.Y. – Junior Wanxi Sun (Danville, Calif.) is the individual leader and the Seton Hall men's golf team has a seven-stroke team lead entering Sunday's final round of the Alex Lagowitz Memorial.

Sun put together two brilliant rounds on Saturday to vault to the individual lead. He was without blemish in round one, shooting five birdies and 13 pars in route to a 5-under-par, 67. In the afternoon, Sun finally committed his first bogey, but also collected three pars and an eagle on the par-5, 12th hole. For round two, he was 4-under-par with a 68.

Entering Sunday's final round, Sun is 9-under-par with a 67-68-135. He leads the field of 91 golfers by three strokes.

As a team, Seton Hall shot one of its best rounds in program history in the morning. The Pirates had an 11-under-par, 277, in round one, which is tied for the second-lowest par-72, single-round in Seton Hall history. The Hall followed it up with an 8-under-par, 280, in round two. Entering Sunday's final round, the Pirates lead the field with a 19-under-par, 277-280-557 and have a seven-stroke lead on Yale.

Seton Hall's lone BIG EAST competition, Villanova, is a distance 4-over-par through 36 holes.

Senior Wenliang Xie (Zhaoqing, China) fired a 1-under-par, 71, in round one, and improved in the afternoon. In round two, he used five birdies and 12 pars to fuel a 3-under-par, 69. Entering round three, Xie is tied for third overall with a 4-under-par, 71-69-140.

Playing in his first career collegiate tournament, freshman George Fricker (Woodbridge, England) looked every bit the veteran. He had six birdies in round one in route to a 2-under-par, 70. In round two, he had 15 pars to power a 1-under-par, 71. Currently, Fricker is tied for sixth overall with a 3-under-par, 70-71-141.

Angus O'Brien (Barwon Heads, Australia) had a terrific opening round, using five birdies to fuel a 3-under-par, 69. The sophomore shot a 5-over-par, 77, in round two, but is currently tied for 26th overall with a 2-over-par, 69-77-146.

Freshman Jack Bosworth (Simsbury, Conn.) shot a 4-over-par, 76, in the opening round, but used 14 pars and two birdies to shave off four strokes in round two. Through two rounds, he's tied for 32nd place with a 4-over-par, 76-72-148.

Rounding out the Pirates' lineup was junior Brody Hanley (Lantana, Texas). Hanley shot a 6-over-par, 78, in round one, but also improved mightily in round two. In the afternoon, he had three birdies in route to a 3-over-par, 75. He's currently 9-over-par with a 78-75-153.

Two additional Pirates made the trip and are competing as individuals. Sophomore Joshua Lee (Lantana, Texas) is currently tied with Bosworth at 4-over-par. He opened with a 3-over-par, 75, and shaved two strokes off in the afternoon thanks to two birdies and 13 pars. Freshman David Lally (Wicklow, Ireland) is currently 13-over-par with an 80-77-157.

Tournament Details:
ALEX LAGOWITZ MEMORIAL
Host: Colgate University
Location: Hamilton, N.Y.
Course: Seven Oaks Golf Club
Course Vitals: Par-72, 6,834 yards
Dates: September 3-4, 2022


THE COURSE:
Named for the ancestral home of the Colgate family, Seven Oaks Golf Club is nestled on the Colgate University Campus at the upper end of the Chenango Valley, in Hamilton, New York. In 1934, a young architect by the name of Robert Trent Jones was brought to Hamilton to begin work on designing the course as one of his first projects. Unfortunately, due to the great depression and WWII, the course and his plans were continuously postponed.

Jones was called back many times throughout the following years to redesign the course before a final version was accepted and it was not until 1956 that ground was broken on the first nine holes, officially opening on July 4th, 1958. Construction for the remainder of the course soon began and on September 4th, 1965 the last nine holes were opened for play.

Seven Oaks is characteristic of all Jones' courses, which include strategic deployment of water, along with extensive tee areas and large, expansive greens.

THE FIELD:
In addition to Seton Hall and host Colgate, the field includes 12 other schools: Binghamton, Bucknell, Canisius, Cornell, Lafayette, Lehigh, Rhode Island, Robert Morris, St. Bonaventure, and Yale. Fellow BIG EAST opponent, Villanova, is also in the field.

Pennsylvania, with former Seton Hall head coach Clay White at the helm, is also in the field of 14.

THE FORMAT:
Teams will play six golfers and count the four lowest scores per round.

THE SCHEDULE:
The teams will play 36 continuous holes on Saturday, and one final round on Sunday. Both days will begin with a shotgun start at 9:00 a.m.

THE RESULTS:
Live scoring will be available throughout the tournament via Golfstat.com. Complete results of each day's events will also be available following competition at SHUpirates.com.

When does official full practice begin ?

After a sensational NBA Summer League with the Milwaukee Bucks and two weeks before his first EuroBasket, Georgian sensation Sandro Mamukelashvili talks to BasketNews about his aspirations and opens up on his ties with Greek legend Nikos Galis.

Long article https://basketnews.com/news-176597-...basket-and-watch-a-game-with-nikos-galis.html

Rowdy arenas and historic venues make college hoops great and these are the best and most intimidating in the sport​

By Matt Norlander

CBS Sports' Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander surveyed roughly 100 coaches for our annual Candid Coaches series. They polled everyone from head coaches at elite programs to assistants at small Division I schools. In exchange for complete anonymity, these coaches provided unfiltered honesty about a number of topics. Over the next few weeks, we'll be posting the results of our summer survey on the state of college basketball.

If you compiled a list about the best things about college basketball -- the features, quirks and ingredients that make the sport great -- the obvious go-to atop such a list is the majesty and spectacle that is the NCAA Tournament. But No. 2, as far as I'm concerned, is the frenzied, intoxicating environments within so many of the sport's treasured venues. The in-arena experience, but also how that excitement also translates to television, is one of college basketball's viable selling points over the NBA.

There are well over 100 barns that bear characteristics, intimidations and histories that make them distinct. Among all these enchanting hoops theaters, which rank as the very best? There's no better group to ask than the people who've experienced the highs and lows of being in these buildings for years, some for well over half their lives: the coaches.

Let's see what they had to say. Each coach polled was asked to submit their top three when we asked ...

Which arenas have the best environments in college hoops?​

Tier 1​

Allen Fieldhouse (Kansas): 67.3% of all ballots
Cameron Indoor Stadium (Duke) 50.5%
McCarthey Athletic Center, aka The Kennel (Gonzaga) 27.4%

Tier 2​

Mackey Arena (Purdue) 15.8% of all ballots
McKale Center (Arizona) 15.8%
Assembly Hall (Indiana) 10.5%
Rupp Arena (Kentucky) 10.5%

Tier 3​

Breslin Center (Michigan State) 8.4% of all ballots
Koch Arena, aka The Roundhouse (Wichita State) 8.4%
Neville Arena (Auburn) 7.4%
United Supermarkets Arena (Texas Tech) 7.4%

Schools appearing on at least four ballots: Grand Canyon, Arkansas, Butler, VCU, Tennessee, Dayton
Schools appearing on at least three ballots: BYU, Illinois, Iowa State, Providence, San Diego State

Sophomore Anna Holland was also named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll.​

NEW YORK – Seton Hall's Asli Subasili (Tekirdag, Turkey) was named BIG EAST Women's Volleyball Freshman of the Week, and Anna Holland (Waukesha, Wis.) earned Weekly Honor Roll status on Monday.

Subasili continued to impress last week, playing significant time on the Pirates' front line as a freshman. She played in all 14 sets and proved to be a force both offensively and defensively. On Tuesday, she had four kills and two blocks against Hofstra. Subasili erupted for five blocks and three aces against George Mason on Friday night. Against Iona on Saturday, she blocked four shots and served up four aces.

Subasili is Seton Hall's first BIG EAST Freshman of the Week since the 2020 season.

Holland again anchored the Pirates back line defensively starting at libero for all four matches last week. The sophomore led The Hall with 4.07 digs over 14 sets. After nine and eight dig performances against Hofstra and George Mason respectively, Holland erupted for a season-high 26 digs to go with five assists in Seton Hall's four-set win over Akron on Saturday. In Saturday's nightcap, she was just one assist shy of a double-double, recording 14 digs and nine assists. For her efforts, Holland was named to the All-Tournament Team of the Seton Hall Invitational.

Villanova's Rose Crist was named BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week, while Providence's Mackenzie Taylor earned Defensive Player of the Week. Joining Holland on the Weekly Honor Roll are Connecticut's Taylor Pannell, Creighton's Keeley Davis, Marquette's Ella Foti and Xavier's Carrigan O'Reilly.

Seton Hall will return to action this weekend when it travels to the Sacred Heart Invitational. The Pirates will face host Sacred Heart on Saturday before playing both Stony Brook and Princeton on Sunday.

NEW YORK – Seton Hall's Luca Dahn (Kahl, Germany) was named BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week, the conference announced on Monday afternoon. Hannes Ronnholmen (Stockholm, Sweden) was also named to the conference's weekly honor roll.

Dahn was a key part of Seton Hall's 1-0 shutout victory over No. 10 Oregon State on Friday night. The graduate student played all 90 minutes, marking the 36th time in his 38 career matches that he has played wire-to-wire. The Pirates faced 15 shots from Oregon State, however Dahn and the defense held the Beavers to just four shots on target. Dahn was also called into action to defend numerous set pieces throughout the night, as Oregon State tallied 12 corner kicks but were unable to cash in.

Dahn earns his second BIG EAST weekly honor of the season, as he was named to the honor roll last week.

Ronnholmen was strong in goal for the Pirates, making three saves in the victory on Friday night. In the final moments of the match with the Beavers amping up the pressure, the senior made a big save on a blistering shot from the Oregon State's Nicklas Lund to help preserve the win. Seton Hall has allowed just one goal through the first three matches of the season, the program's best defensive start to a season since 2005.

The Pirates wrap up their west coast trip on Monday night as they visit Portland at 8:30 p.m.

By Jeremy Layton


The College Football Playoff will be changing in a big way.

The Post confirmed that after a meeting Friday, the CFP Board of Directors made the decision to increase the number of teams in the postseason tournament from four – not to eight, as some were expecting, but 12.

ESPN’s Pete Thamel was first to report the expansion. Sports Illustrated reported that the decision was unanimous, and that the implementation date will be left up to the conference commissioners to decide, though, according to The Post’s Zach Braziller, the goal is for it to start as soon as 2024.

The expectation is that the field will be the six highest-ranked conference champions and six at-larges.

The motivation for the expansion — money, according to Thamel — renewed once USC and UCLA joined the Big Ten, per Braziller.

The CFP board is expected to announce the decision later today.

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South Orange, N.J. – Seton Hall men's soccer finishes off its west coast trip against Portland on Monday night at 8:30 p.m.

LAST TIME OUT
Seton Hall upset No. 10 Oregon State, 1-0, on Friday night at Paul Lorenz Field in Corvallis, Ore. Andrea Borg (Sliema, Malta) scored the lone tally in the 59th minute to secure the Pirates' first road win over a top-10 non-conference foe in 21 years. Hannes Ronnholmen (Stockholm, Sweden) made a trio of saves, as the Seton Hall defense was able to stand tall against numerous Oregon State opportunities.


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BE THE BEST, BEAT THE BEST
The Pirates face a tough slate of six non-conference matches to begin the 2022 season, four of which will be away from home. Of those six non-league foes, five of them finished last season with a winning record. This year, the Pirates will take on five teams who finished inside the top-25 in RPI last season (Oregon State: 2, Georgetown: 4, Providence: 14, Creighton: 17, Villanova: 23). The Pirates will also face seven teams that reached the NCAA Tournament in 2021, all of which won at least one match.

The Hall will be facing some of the top teams in the country this season. Along with preseason No. 5 Oregon State, the Pirates also have preseason No. 2 Georgetown on their conference slate. This marks the first time since 2010 that Seton Hall will face two preseason top-five teams in the United Soccer Coaches rankings in the same season.

SCOUTING PORTLAND (1-0-2 THIS SEASON; 11-7-1 / 4-2-1 IN 2021)

• Portland enters this one fresh off defeating Cal Poly, 5-0, on Friday night. The Pilots also earned draws against Central Arkansas and No. 21 Indiana so far this season.
• The Pilots' offense is off to a blistering start, scoring 10 goals through three games.
• Former Pirate CJ Tibbling scored his first goal for Portland in Friday's win.
• Portland reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2021 before falling to eventual National Runners-Up, No. 2 Washington.
• Portland is receiving votes in the latest United Soccer Coaches poll.
• This will be the first meeting all-time between Seton Hall and Portland.

NEWS & NOTES

• The win over Oregon State was the Pirates' first over a top-10 team in the United Soccer Coaches rankings since beating No. 2 Georgetown to win the BIG EAST title on Apr. 17, 2021.
• The win also marked the first time Seton Hall has defeated a top-10 non-conference foe on the road since winning at No. 3 Virginia in the 2001 NCAA Tournament.
• The Pirates have conceded just one goal through three matches to start the year, their best defensive start to a season since 2005 when they had three clean sheets to begin the season. Seton Hall has never gone the first four matches of a season allowing just one goal.
• Head Coach Andreas Lindberg sits just two wins away from 200 for his career.
• The Pirates are aiming to stay unbeaten through the first four matches of the year for the third consecutive season.
• This is the Pirates' first trip to the west coast since the 2000 season, when they played Stanford and Cal at the Stanford Invitational.
• Luca Dahn has played wire-to-wire in each of his last nine matches dating back to last season, and has also done so in 36 of his 38 career matches.
• Three Pirates return to the pitch in 2022 as graduate students, as All-BIG EAST Third Team honoree Luca Dahn (Kahl, Germany) joins JP Marin (Briarwood, N.Y.) and Paavo Riihijarvi (Oulu, Finland). The trio combined for seven goals and 18 points during the 2021 season.
• Fellow All-BIG EAST Third Teamer Johannes Pex (Stephansposching, Germany) enters his senior season, fresh off a campaign where he led the Pirates offensively with five goals, five assists and 15 points.
• Fourteen different Pirates found the back of the next last season. Of that group, nine of them return for the 2022 season.
• This season's roster boasts 12 freshmen, the most since the 2018 team which featured the same number.
• The Pirates also welcome in a pair of transfers: junior Quenzi Huerman (Vannes, France) from Palm Beach Atlantic, and sophomore Tyler Hutchinson (Cliffside Park, N.J.) from Clemson

WATCH
The match will be available to watch live on PortlandPilots.com. A link to the live stream can be found here.