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Seton Hall head coach Bobby Gonzalez and his staff are playing host this week to two of the top ballers from New York City.
JayVaughn Pinkston, a 6-foot-6 senior forward from Bishop Loughlin High, visited campus and the Prudential Center Tuesday with New Heights athletic director Kimani Young.
Devon Collier, a 6-7 senior wing from St. Anthony, will hit Seton Hall on Wednesday with Adam Berkowitz of New Heights. Collier will then visit St. John’s on Thursday.
“It went well,” Pinkston said of the Seton Hall visit. “I liked it. It was fun, better than I thought it would be. The campus and the arena are nice.”
Added Young: “We both were pleasantly surprised.”
This interview with Tennessee Coach Bruce Pearl is the fifth in a series of interviews with Division 1 head coaches conducted at camps this summer.
NEW YORK — Bruce Pearl knows the SEC East will be absolutely loaded this year.
With Kentucky, Florida, South Carolina, Vanderbilt and Tennessee all in the same division, the SEC East could be the toughest conference in all of college basketball.
“We could be a Top 10 team in the country and we could be the third best team in the SEC,” Pearl said last month at St. John’s. “It’s a great league.
“It’s loaded every year. With John [Calipari] at Kentucky, the bar’s been raised. Florida’s not been in the [NCAA] Tournament two years in a row. That’s not going to happen again. They got a lot of guys back.
“Wherever the bar is set, we all seem to rise to wherever the bar is set. We have beaten Florida seven of the last eight times. We finished ahead of Kentucky four straight years. We’re trying to go after our fourth SEC championship in five years, we’ve got an awful lot to play for. I’ve got to continue to keep Tennessee in a very competitive situation so that when you guys start talking about the SEC East, not only are you talking about Florida and Kentucky, but you also talk about Tennessee.”
There has been quite a bit of movement in the Big East over the past few days…
Pittsburgh suspended forward Gilbert Brown for the fall semester because of academic reasons.
Brown, a redshirt junior from Harrisburg, Pa., played in 32 games off the bench last season. He scored in double figures five times and averaged 5.4 points and 3.1 rebounds.
The 6-6, 200-pound Brown could be eligible to rejoin the team Dec. 20.
The Panthers already lost DeJuan Blair and Tyrell Biggs. Now Brown’s absence leaves the Panthers even thinner up front. McDonald’s All-American Dante Taylor figured to be a key player as a freshman and his role may have just gotten even more important.
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