The 2019-20 college basketball season tips off Tuesday night across America, and in Omaha, it begins at 8:00 local time when the Jays play host to Kennesaw State. The Owls are coming off of a brutal 6-26 record a year ago (including 3-13 in the Atlantic Sun, and 0-18 on the road) and haven’t had a winning record in 14 years. So they enter the season with a new coaching staff in hopes of turning things around.
That coach? Amir Abdur-Rahim, a highly-respected young coach who has been an assistant at Georgia, Texas A&M, College of Charleston and Murray State; he’s credited with helping recruit and develop a pair of NBA draft picks in Robert Williams III at A&M, and Isaiah Canaan at Murray State.