Congratulations to my brother Greg who was named head coach at Cabrini College. Busy on the road recruiting this summer and speaking at various venues including the venerable UConn camp, Greg inherits a Cavalier squad that includes a high school teammate of UC Davis's Jesse Lopez-Low at St. Ignatius in San Francisco, CA, Chris Blake. A small world indeed!

A la Larry Brown turned things around at Elgin CC last season and is poised to get Cabrini back on track in the tough PCA conference.

Here's a nice article on the hiring from the Daily Times:

By TERRY TOOHEY
ttoohey@delcotimes.com
As Greg Herenda drove onto the Cabrini College campus Monday to interview for the vacant men’s basketball coaching position, the first building he saw was Grace Hall, which houses the faculty and administrative offices.
Any nervousness the 46-year-old basketball lifer from Jersey City, N.J. had about the interview quickly disappeared.
“My mother’s name was Grace Herenda,” Herenda said. “She died last week and the interview came two days after we buried her. It was like she was talking to me.”
That drive and subsequent interview proved fruitful Thursday when Herenda was selected as the fourth men’s basketball coach in Cabrini history.
Herenda replaces Matt Macciocca, who was dismissed as the Cavaliers coach following the 2006-07 season after two years as the Cavaliers coach.
“You think I would have cried when I saw that name on the building, but I laughed,” Herenda said of his emotional drive onto the campus. “My mother had a great sense of humor and she would have enjoyed the irony of it. Here she was, telling me what to do from heaven. I knew immediately that I was in the right place. Sometimes, you just have to follow your gut and that’s what I did. I knew that my mom was looking down on me.”
Herenda, a graduate of Merrimack College, brings more than 20 years of college coaching experience with him to Cabrini. He spent the 2006-07 season as the head coach at Elgin Community College in Elgin, Ill., where he guided the Spartans to an 18-11 record and the first appearance in the Region IV District B championship game in school history.
Prior to Elgin, Herenda served as the associate head coach at East Carolina (2000-2005), where he was the right-hand man of former Drexel coach Bill Herrion. Herenda also was an assistant at Yale (1997-99), Seton Hall (1994-97), Holy Cross (1989-94), Merrimack (1985-89) and Massachusetts-Lowell (1983-85).
At Lowell, Herenda helped recruit the core of a team that went on to win the 1988 NCAA Division II championship.
“I’m excited,” Herenda said. “I know of Cabrini’s tradition and I was even more impressed when I got on campus. It’s a gorgeous campus, the facilities are unbelievable and the people are even better. I’m very excited and honored to be the next basketball coach at Cabrini College.”
Herenda takes over a team that struggled the past two seasons. The Cavaliers went 11-14 in 2005-06 and 5-20 last season and failed to qualify for the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference tournament both years. The good news is that there were no seniors on the roster.
The top returnees are forward Randy Reid from Monsignor Bonner, who averaged 17 points and eight rebounds a game, guard Greg Clifton (11.0 ppg.) and center Bruce MacLelland (8.6 ppg., 10.3 rpg.). Reid was a second-team All-PAC selection and was the team’s sportsmanship winner in the league.
“Everything we do will be taken from a defensive standpoint,” Herenda said. “We’re going to play extremely hard and get up and defend you. I’m not a 94-foot kind of guy. We’ll press three-quarter court, but I’m a firm believer that offense starts with good defense. We’re going to rebound and run and get the best shots available.”
Terry Toohey is the assistant sports editor of the Daily Times.