James Hett News

It would appear in recent games Dave Calloway, Monmouth University men's basketball coach, has established some continuity with a general eight-man rotation.

It took a while Saturday night before the one-two Monmouth University men's basketball punch of Travis Taylor and Whitney Coleman could put away Penn for good.

The hurried, fast-break pass attempt by point guard James Hett whizzed over the head of 6-foot-7 sophomore Travis Taylor Wednesday night when Monmouth played at Rutgers.

Senior Whitney Coleman drained the game-winning jump shot with 3.6 second left, lifting the Monmouth Universoty men's basketball team to a 75-73 victory over host Wyoming in the first round of the 2009 World Vision Challenge on Friday night.

The Monmouth University men's basketball team had its bell rung Saturday. Fresh from its upset victory over host Wyoming Friday in the World Vision Basketball Challenge, the Hawks were unable to contain Pepperdine guard Keion Bell.

The packed student section behind the basket at the shiny new Multipurpose Activity Center on the campus of Monmouth University unleashed a lusty barrage of boos when Florida International coach Isiah Thomas walked onto the floor prior to Friday night's game.

The feeling of optimism that surrounds the Monmouth University men's basketball program apparently hasn't made its way much beyond the borders of West Long Branch.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: Dave Calloway went for some added bulk when he signed 6-5, 240-pound Ed Waite and 6-7, 230-pount versatile player Marcus Ware.

Blake Hamilton was barking out directions and a lot of the younger guys were listening.

One could say that Marques Johnson has come full-circle. After a highly-productive high school career for Raritan came to a close in 2005, the 5-foot-11 point guard just finished up his college career at Boston University and is now back home this summer and suiting up for Sterns Trailer at the Verizon Fios Jersey Shore Basketball League.