Our forecast for New Jersey's 2024-25 college basketball season:  Top: Welcome back, hoop-heads!  2:10: Rutgers  13:10 Seton Hall  22:50: Princeton 26:20 Monmouth 28:35: Saint Peter's 30:20: FDU 32:05 NJIT 33:40: Rider

We convene an emergency podcast to discuss the transfer-portal madness that put Jersey college hoops at center stage this week, plus other roster-building and scheduling updates.  Top: We're back 2:00: Kadary Richmond & Seton Hall 20:15: Rutgers, Cliff Omoruyi & schedule 30:45: Princeton keeping it together? 36:30 Monmouth's roster rebuild  

Season finale: Seton Hall's NIT title and what's next Rutgers McDonald's All-Americans' and portal activity Haggerty and All-Met honors NCAA final predictions 

Seton Hall's NIT run and what's next for the Pirates Dan Hurley, UConn and Jersey in the Final Four Rutgers' offseason and the transfer portal

On Shaheen Holloway, Seton Hall's NIT run, Rutgers, Princeton, the portal and March Madness

On a historic Selection Sunday snub for Seton Hall and the Big East   The value of the NIT Princeton's heartbreak Saint Peter's dancing  March Madness upset, sleepers, Final Four picks

Bracketologist Brad Wachtel on Seton Hall, Princeton, St. John's and more.  Plus: Shaheen Holloway got it done, Steve Pikiell's roster challenge, and our championship-week predictions in for the Big East, Big Ten, MAAC and Ivy League tourneys. 

John Paquette has worked 38 Big East tourneys, first with Seton Hall and then as the league's media relations director. The Hazlet resident on his favorite memories, the changes since realignment and the coaches' personalities -- plus a story or two from Seton Hall's 1989 Final Four run   Also: A rundown of where all 8 NJ college hoops teams stand as Championship Week approaches and a shoutout to the D-3 NCAA squads. 

Monmouth's King Rice on coaching his son Xander, his evolution as a head coach over 13 seasons and 200 wins, his relationship with Shaheen Holloway, and why coaches should stop complaining about the NIL and transfer portal.  Plus: A rundown of where Seton Hall, Rutgers, Princeton, Saint Peter's, Rider and FDU stand as March Madness approaches. 

Gary Cohen on Seton Hall, interviewing Shaheen Holloway and calling college hoops Seton Hall's rally vs. St. John's and Rick Pitino's meltdown Rutgers' roller-coaster week and Steve Pikiell's Kenpom rant Xander Rice's spectacular finish for Monmouth Princeton seizing its big-stage moment FDU's elevator escape, Saint Peter's big weekend