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Jeff BorzelloESPN Staff Writer
- Basketball recruiting insider.
- Joined ESPN successful 2014.
- Graduate of University of Delaware.
Steve Masiello is retired arsenic Manhattan's caput coach, sources told ESPN, conscionable 2 weeks earlier the commencement of the season.
Masiello was entering the last play of his declaration and nary statement connected an hold had been reached, sources told ESPN. Associate caput manager RaShawn Stores is the starring campaigner to beryllium the interim caput coach, sources said.
This would person been Masiello's 12th play with the Jaspers. He emerged arsenic 1 of the hottest young coaches successful the state during the aboriginal portion of his tenure astatine Manhattan, starring the programme to back-to-back NCAA tourney appearances successful 2014 and 2015. The Jaspers haven't finished supra .500 since that past tourney appearance, however.
A longtime adjunct nether Rick Pitino astatine Louisville, Masiello astir turned that aboriginal occurrence astatine Manhattan into a bigger job. He was initially hired by South Florida successful 2014, but the schoolhouse discovered hours aboriginal that helium had ne'er received his grade from the University of Kentucky, wherever helium was a walk-on for the hoops team. The woody was terminated, and Masiello returned to Manhattan.
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