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Half of the new coaches in the Big East have a familiar look to Pitt basketball fans. Kevin Willard of Seton Hall and Mike Rice of Rutgers are part of the Big East coaching fraternity after either playing or coaching for the Panthers.
Willard was a guard at Pitt in the mid-1990s under his father, Ralph. Rice was an assistant coach at Pitt in 2006-07 before becoming the head coach at Robert Morris for the past three seasons. Both have challenges ahead of them as they try to turn around the New York City-area schools that never quite made it under former coaches Bobby Gonzalez (Seton Hall) and Fred Hill (Rutgers).See the full content of this document
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New Big East Coaches Familiar with Surroundings
Rutgers is down to nine scholarship players after two of its best players, guard Mike Ros...
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