Seton Hall’s Head Coach is a product of the Rick Pitino coaching tree. Now in his ninth season, Kevin Willard spent time under Pitino in Boston and Louisville as an assistant. He was on the Cardinals coaching staff from 2001-2007. In 2007, he accepted the job as the head coach at the University of Iona where he spent three years before arriving at Seton Hall. Willard even played his freshman year of college basketball at Western Kentucky University before transferring to Pitt, so the guy is familiar with hoops in the Bluegrass.
His strong ties to Pitino may give fans even more of a desire for a blow-out win Saturday in Madison Square Garden.