COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Columbia University men’s basketball coach Jim Engles has rounded out his staff with the hiring of Jean Bain and Jared Czech as assistant coaches and the appointment of Jonathan Safir as director of basketball operations. Bain comes to Morningside Heights after a four-year stint as Dartmouth’s associate head coach. Czech served as Engles’ director of operations at NJIT during the 2014-15 season before being named Director of Hoop Group Elite, the world’s largest basketball instructional organization, last year. – HoopDirt. Read More.