ESPN.com has a story from Dana O'Neil about the changing times for college basketball in the New York Metropolitan area.

Once Hofstra hires a replacement for Tim Welsh, who resigned Monday because of a DWI, the New York City area will have had 12 new coaches this offseason.

Here's a link to the story.

The story mentions both Manhatthan coach Barry Rohrssen and Saint Peter's coach John Dunne, a former Siena assistant.

Here's a quote from the story, referring to Siena.

"When you start claiming Cornell and Siena as your New York City teams, it's bad," said Dick "Hoops" Weiss, the longtime basketball writer for the New York Daily News. "For a while we even adopted Connecticut. I think people finally realized that fans aren't going to be satisfied with mediocrity. Whether it's 65 or 68 teams, it becomes a pass/fail deal. New York was failing."