Fordham hiring Villanova's Neptune as head coach

March 29, 2021

Porter Binks/Getty ImagesBY: LEIGHTON SCHNEIDER, ABC NEWS

(NEW YORK) — Fordham University will hire Villanova assistant coach Kyle Neptune as the next head basketball coach, according to multiple media reports and confirmed by ESPN’s Jeff Borzello.

This will be Neptune first head coaching job.

The 36-year-old from Brooklyn starred at Lehigh University before joining the Wildcats in 2008 as an administrative intern and video coordinator.

In 2010, he became an assistant coach at Niagara University and spent three years with the team before coming back to Villanova as an assistant coach.

He is the longest-tenured assistant for Villanova. During his eight years in his

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