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Rutgers basketball is living on the extremes as of late. With two projected top-5 NBA Draft picks on their roster, head coach ...
Steve Pikiell tried not to push his four kids into athletics − even as a former player for Jim Calhoun at Connecticut and a college basketball head coach during all or most their lives.
When it comes to Paul Mulcahy’s decision to enter the transfer portal this month, Steve Pikiell appears to be focused on the future rather than worried about the present. “We had Paul for four ...
Last March, Rutgers gave its miracle worker men’s basketball coach Steve Pikiell a sizable e xtension to his contract that essentially served as a commitment to him for the rest of his career.
In 20 years as a college basketball head coach, Steve Pikiell never had a week quite like this past one. On the court, his Rutgers squad suffered a gut-punch loss at Michigan thanks to a buzzer ...
The selection show was playing on three big-screen TVs, and Steve Pikiell did not have to wait long to let go of his worst fears. He was standing in a conference room filled with players ...
The men’s basketball team, coached by her godfather Steve Pikiell, played below. “She was a December baby, born right in the middle of basketball season,” her father Tim Pikiell said.
This was some years back, at a time when Steve Pikiell was quietly building the template for how to create a basketball program out of the dust, practically from scratch. The first year at Stony ...
“If I could say one thing to parents: take a deep breath and just enjoy that your kid isn’t playing video games and he’s not running around doing something,” says Steve Pikiell, Rutgers ...
Steve Pikiell punched in Jim Calhoun’s number—his standard routine after receiving any job offer—and waited for a familiar New England inflection to bellow out from the other end.