Adam Zagoria covers basketball at all levels. He is the author of two books and an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Sports Illustrated, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide.
**UPDATE 9/1713** Seton Hall officially hired Oliver Antigua as an assistant coach. The press release from Seton Hall was here until Thursday, with my column on it from earlier this summer below.
Kevin Willard is thinking outside the box.
And when you’re the coach at Seton Hall, you might as well try something new to bring in an infusion of talent.
Having already hired former Rutgers head coach and Northwestern assistant Freddie Hill to (successfully) assist in the recruitment of point guard Jaren Sina, Willard is on the brink of adding Oliver Antigua just shortly after Dominican forward Angel Delgado — an Antigua protégé from the DR– verbally committed to the Pirates.
“I haven’t hired anyone yet,” Willard told SNY.tv Tuesday after reports surfaced on Twitter that the Antigua-to-Seton Hall hire was done.
Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka were seeded No. 1 and 2, respectively, for the U.S. Open, which begins Monday.
That sets up the possibility of a rematch of last year’s final, won by Williams in three sets after Azarenka was up a break in the third.
Azarenka just beat Williams in a third-set tiebreak on Sunday to win the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, serving notice that she can beat arguably the greatest women’s player ever on a big stage.