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Coaches Cooley, Willard are chums off the court

Jan 22, 2020 at 10:31 PM

NEWARK, N.J. — If Ed Cooley lingered a few extra moments with Seton Hall’s Kevin Willard before Wednesday’s Big East clash, he had plenty of reasons why.

The two coaches are longtime friends, dating back to their days knocking heads in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference at Fairfield and Iona. When they moved into the big time in the Big East, their paychecks increased but so did their relationship. Last summer, things grew to another level when Willard assisted Cooley (along with Brown’s Mike Martin) on the United States entry in the PanAm Games in Lima, Peru.