was at a post-game team meal when he learned his head coach had been fired.
The Massachusetts redshirt junior forward said it was roughly an hour after his season ended at the Atlantic 10 tournament in Pittsburgh on March 9. Administrators entered the dining room inside the team hotel and let the Minutemen know Derek Kellogg had been dismissed as men's basketball coach after nine seasons.
"It was sad," Berger said in a phone interview with The Oregonian/OregonLive. "That's been my coach for four years. I hate to see that happen. ... The timing of it I think was surprising.