Former St. John’s assistant Glenn Braica appears to be the front-runner for the vacant head-coaching position at St. Francis of Brooklyn, two sources told The Post.
Braica, a Brooklyn native and former assistant with the Terriers, was relieved of his duties with the Red Storm when head coach Norm Roberts was fired last month.
St. Francis’ opening was created last Wednesday, when former Seton Hall assistant Brian Nash resigned suddenly after five seasons on the job, citing personal reasons. The Terriers did not make postseason play under Nash and finished 11-18 this season.
Braica, a graduate of Queens College, previously worked with the Terriers for 15 seasons in various capacities. In his last seven years there, St. Francis went 118-83, with an 88-42 mark in the Northeast Conference.
St. Francis’ position is one of three in the area that remain open after a three-week flurry of coaching changes. Columbia, which lost Joe Jones to an assistant job at Boston College last week, is still in the early stages of its search. And Rutgers, which still has not officially divorced itself from the embattled Fred Hill, cannot begin its search until the Hill matter has been resolved.
“It’s an internal personnel matter,” Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti said in a school-issued statement yesterday. “We have no further comment at this time.”
Elsewhere, Manhattan College junior guard Rico Pickett, who led the MAAC in scoring this season, entered his name in the NBA Draft. But Pickett, a transfer from Miami Dade Community College, has not hired an agent, clearing the way for a possible return to the Jaspers.