Daily News | Coaching vet Chris Carideo on guiding Widener back to the NCAA tournament
NCAA Tournament bid secured, an opponent identified in Tufts and a trip to New Hampshire planned with obstacles identified … Widener men’s basketball coach Chris Carideo was the best kind of busy this week.
The academic profile has increased “exponentially,” Carideo said. “There was a time there, from probably like 2010 to 2013, where we as coaches really had to adjust to the kinds of students they were letting in. And now, we’ve adjusted to it.”“I’ve got Andrew Radomicki on my staff — he was at Lafayette with Fran [O’Hanlon] for five years,” Carideo said. “He’s downstairs now doing the scouting report for Tufts and crunching numbers, doing everything.
It’s not hard to believe that Carideo will listen closely when his own legendary South Jersey high school coach, Paul Rodio at St. Augustine Prep, called him … “‘I’ve got Xavier Ernest on my team, he doesn’t play for me much, but I think he’s got upside.’ Well, he’s in our rotation and he’s a sophomore.”“My inbox is flooded right now,” Carideo said. “When you start to win, my inbox is flooded with coaches — ‘I’ve got a guy.’ But it’s hard. If I don’t know them. I don’t want to ignore anyone.
“They have a graduate program, but they’ve got like five people in it,” Carideo said. “He could have stayed and gotten something he really didn’t care to do. … He was looking for someplace to get a Master’s … he’s from just over the bridge.”“No, I saw him in the portal and I emailed him right away,” Carideo said. “I was on the phone with Dom 20 minutes after I emailed him.”
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