Bronx Insider: Sports Desk: Manhattan Men's Basketball Announces Home-and-Home Series with Bryant.

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Manhattan Announces Home-and-Home Series with Bryant.

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Manhattan and Bryant have announced a home-and-home series in men’s basketball starting this year at Draddy Gymnasium.

The Jaspers and Bulldogs will play at Draddy Gymnasium on Sunday, Dec. 11, at 2 p.m. Manhattan will play in Smithfield, R.I. next season. Next season’s date is still to be determined.

Manhattan, under interim head coach RaShawn Stores, opens the 2022-23 season on Monday, Nov. 7, at VCU. The home opener for the Jaspers is Friday, Nov. 11, against Central Connecticut State at 7 p.m.

A two-year team captain, Stores helped the Jaspers to back-to-back MAAC Championships and 71 total wins. Stores, who entered the program as a walk-on, graduated ninth in school history with 314 assists and was a Defensive All-American as a senior in 2015-16. 

Bronx Insider: Sports Desk: Manhattan Makes Men's Basketball Leadership Change; Stores Named Interim Head Coach.

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Manhattan Makes Men's Basketball Leadership Change; Stores Named Interim Head Coach.

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Manhattan College men's basketball announced today that head coach Steve Masiello is leaving the school after 11 years. He will be replaced for the 2022-23 season by RaShawn Stores who will serve as interim head coach.

 
Mr. Stores, [30], is in his sixth year with the Manhattan Men's Basketball staff, and his second as an Associate Head Coach. A two-year team captain, he helped the Jaspers to back-to-back MAAC Championships in 2014 and 2015 and 71 total wins.

Said Marianne Reilly, director of athletics for Manhattan College, “We thank Coach Masiello for his service and wish him well. As we look to building successful teams for the future -- and with recruiting season beginning soon and Coach Masiello’s  contract ending in April 2023 -- we determined that it was the right time to begin rebuilding from the top down.”    

Mr. Masiello, who played under coaches Rick Pitino and Tubby Smith at the University of Kentucky in the 1990s, joined Manhattan as an assistant coach in 2001 and left in 2005 to become an assistant coach under Rick Pitino at Louisville from 2005-2011. He returned to Manhattan as head coach on April 11, 2011. At Manhattan, he achieved a record of 162 wins and 177 losses, winning two MAAC tournaments(2014 and 2015) and taking Manhattan to the NCAA championships, also in 2014 and 2015.

 
Continued Ms. Reilly, “We are committed to a strong basketball program and excited that RaShawn -- a proven team leader – will be leading our veteran team into what promises to be an exciting season.   As we look to the future, we will be looking to identify a permanent head coach who can help us attract extraordinary talent on and off the court and build for the future. RaShawn will certainly be a candidate.”  

 
Said Mr. Stores, “Manhattan College is my school.  I am grateful and proud to have this opportunity and excited about the season ahead.”

Bronx Insider: Sports Desk: Manhattan Men's Basketball Picked Second in MAAC Preseason Poll; Perez Named Preseason Player of the Year.

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Manhattan Picked Second in Preseason Poll; Perez Named Preseason Player of the Year.

EDISON, N.J. – Manhattan men’s basketball was picked second in the MAAC Preseason Poll, and Jose Perez was named MAAC Preseason Player of the Year, the league announced during its annual preseason awards show on Tuesday evening.

Perez and Ant Nelson collected Preseason All-MAAC honors too. The 2022-23 season gets underway for the Jaspers on Monday, Nov. 7, at VCU. Season and single-game tickets for Manhattan basketball are now on sale.

Manhattan was second behind Iona in the preseason poll. Iona collected 10 first-place votes, with Manhattan collecting the other first-place vote.

Rider was close behind Manhattan in third. Quinnipiac and Fairfield rounded out the top five. Siena was tabbed sixth, with Marist in seventh. Niagara and Saint Peter’s are tied for eighth. MAAC newcomers, Mount St. Mary’s was 10th, and Canisius rounded out the poll in 11th.

In addition to being Preseason Player of the Year, Perez was a unanimous Preseason First Team All-MAAC selection. Last season, Perez led the MAAC in scoring at 18.9 points and finished second in assists per game at 4.5. After last season, Perez was named First Team All-MAAC, Second Team All-Met, and NABC Second Team All-District. The Bronx native paced the league in free throws made (182) and free throws attempted (227). The free throw totals ranked fourth in Division I this past season. Perez had the highest-scoring game last season with 38 points against Niagara on Feb. 4.  

Joining Perez on the Preseason All-MAAC Teams was Nelson, who was named Preseason Second Team All-MAAC. Nelson averaged 10.9 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 2.3 assists over 26 games for the Jaspers last season. The New York native had back-to-back 20-point games against Quinnipiac and Siena.

2022-23 Preseason Coaches’ Poll

1 – Iona (10)
2 – Manhattan (1)
3 – Rider
4 – Quinnipiac
5 – Fairfield
6 – Siena
7 – Marist
T8 – Niagara
T8 – Saint Peter’s
10 – Mount St. Mary’s
11 – Canisius

Preseason First Team All-MAAC

Supreme Cook, F, Jr., Fairfield
Nelly Junior Joseph*, F, Jr., Iona
Jose Perez*, F, 5Y, Manhattan
Matt Balanc*, G, R-Sr., Quinnipiac
Dwight Murray Jr.*, Guard, Sr., Rider

Preseason Second Team All-MAAC

Jordan Henderson, G, Gr., Canisius
Walter Clayton Jr., G, So., Iona
Ant Nelson, G, 5Y, Manhattan
Noah Thomasson, G, Sr., Niagara
Jackson Stormo, F, Gr., Siena

Preseason All-MAAC Third Team

Jake Wojcik, G, R-Sr., Fairfield
Jalen Benjamin, G, Sr., Mount St. Mary’s
Dezi Jones, G, Jr., Quinnipiac
Mervin James, F, Sr., Rider
Allen Powell, G, Sr., Rider

*-Unanimous Selection

Bronx Insider: Ocasio-Cortez in OC.

 

For Immediate Release: October 17, 2022

 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Rally Young Voters at U.C. Irvine.

On Sunday, October 23, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will speak to young voters about the crucial role they play in the midterm elections. Turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds nearly doubled between the 2014 and 2018 midterm cycles.  This high turnout must continue for Democrats to keep control of Congress and to win state races around the country - where choice, climate and justice are on the ballot. 

The rally will be held at the University of California Irvine, and hosted by Sunrise Movement Orange County, the Orange County Young Democrats, Planned Parenthood Generation Action U.C. Irvine, the U.C. Student Workers Union and College Democrats at U.C.I. 

SPEAKERS: 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York’s 14th Congressional District

Tommy Vietor, co- founder of Crooked Media and host of Pod Save America

Arlis Reynolds, City Council member for Costa Mesa's District 5

Dr. Kathleen Treseder, Howard A. Schneiderman Endowed Chair and Professor of Biology at UC Irvine

Iris “Nini” Wu, Orange County Young Democrats

WHERE: UC Irvine Flagpoles

WHEN: Sunday, October 23, 2022. 10:30 AM PT.