In this weeks episode, host Chris Cottrell interviews the head coach of California State University, San Bernardino, Andy Newman.
Currently, CSU San Bernardino is 20-2 and ranked #6 in last weeks NCAA D2 Mens Basketball Top 25 Coaches Poll.
Coach Newman is in his 4th season as the head coach at CSU San Bernardino and has an overall record of 56-24.
In today’s episode Coach Cottrell and Coach Newman discuss navigating the year off from competition in the 2020-2021 season. Cottrell and Newman also discuss how the year away and CCAA’s decision to cancel the season, impacted recruiting and the roster at CSU San Bernardino. Coach Newman also talks rebounding margins, assisting the basketball and their elite backcourt of Darius Lubom, Brandon Knapper and Darius Mickens.
Previously Newman led the Coyotes to a 15-14 record in his first season with a win over then ranked #16 UC San Diego, who is now an NCAA Division I institution. In a shortened second season at the helm, San Bernardino was 21-8 and preparing to play Azusa Pacific in the first round of the NCAA tournament when Covid disrupted that event and the entire NCAA Tournament.
In what would have been his third season, 2020-2021, the CCAA, the California Collegiate Athletic Association shut down basketball and programs did not compete as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Before arriving in California, Newman was the head coach at the University of Texas Permian Basin where he won more than 100 games and advanced to the NCAA D2 National tournament twice.
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