Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle.
A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013.
He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.
BOSTON — Rollie Massimino cornered Jay Wright in the lobby of the Westin Waterfront hotel last Saturday, hours before the Wildcats were to meet Pittsburgh in the East Regional final at TD Banknorth Garden.
Massimino, the 74-year-old coach who led Villanova to its only NCAA championship in 1985, began drawing up a play that Pitt used for high-scoring forward Sam Young.
“You gotta stop this play,” Massimino told Wright, his former assistant and now the head coach of the Wildcats.
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