One year after getting fired by UMass, Derek Kellogg leads LIU-Brooklyn to NCAA Tournament
By ADAM ZAGORIA One year after getting fired
By ADAM ZAGORIA One year after getting fired
By ADAM ZAGORIA & DENNIS CHAMBERS LIU Brooklyn
LIU-Brooklyn has parted ways with head coach
NEW YORK –It was all set up for Shamorie Ponds to be the hero in his home borough of Brooklyn.
With St. John’s trailing LIU-Brooklyn by one point and the clock ticking down, Ponds got a clean look at a mid-range jumper from the left side but it hit the rim and the Blackbirds emerged with a 74-73 victory over the Red Storm at Barclays Center.
“I feel like that was a great play by Coach [Chris Mullin], I just feel like I gotta take us home on that,” said Ponds, who finished with a team-high 18 points on 6-of-16 shooting in the loss after he had tallied 51 points in his last two games combined.
“It was good coming back home but mostly I wanted to come out with a win,” Ponds added. “I felt like we were supposed to win this game.”
Teaneck (N.J.) High School shooting guard Joel Hernandez is the latest player to sign with LIU-Brooklyn, having done so Saturday morning as his visit to the campus ended.
The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Hernandez said he also considered Hofstra.
Hernandez told SNY.tv he picked LIU — which has appeared in three straight NCAA Tournaments — because of “the way it made me feel. I bonded with the players and coaches.”
Hernandez scored 1,590 points at Teaneck and led the Highwaymen to three straight North 1, Group 3 titles. He was named the Bergen Record Player of the Year.
