The former St. John’s coach understands better than most how difficult a job Florida Atlantic is.
Then miraculous followed by amazing.
“The reasons why Coach May [should be] be the National Coach of the Year is it’s an incredibly difficult job, as are most jobs at that level,” Jarvis said. “With the budget that you have, with the facilities that you have, with the fact that usually you have to play a lot of buy games, which means you get a lot of losses because you’re playing against teams you probably have no business playing against, and that in turn destroys a lot of kids’ confidence.
He also hired May, an assistant at Florida at the time, in 2018, and the two sides are expected to agree on a new long-term extension after this weekend, May said. A lot has gone right in this run. Purdue became just the second No. 1 to lose to a No. 16 when it fell to Fairleigh Dickinson in the first round, setting up Florida Atlantic with a much easier second-round game.
Now it is two wins away from what would be the most unlikely national championship in college basketball history.Three keys: Florida Atlantic vs. San Diego St.Miami’s Isaiah Wong was interested in UConn once upon a time
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