Hernandez leads LIU-Brooklyn mens hoops Blackbirds into NEC slate
LIU-Brooklyn Senior Thriving After Missing Last Season Due to Injury
First-year LIU-Brooklyn men’s head basketball coach Derek Kellogg didn’t mince his words back in November when asked about the importance of redshirt senior guard Joel Hernandez’s potential impact on the Blackbirds’ 2017-18 campaign.
“I think he needs to have a huge year for us to have success,” Kellogg said of Hernandez, who missed almost the entire 2016-17 season due to injury. “I’m interested to see if he can do that.”
Thus far, Hernandez has done it throughout the first 13 non-conference games for the Blackbirds (5-8), who will enter the all-important Northeast Conference portion of their schedule Friday evening against visiting Fairleigh Dickinson at the Steinberg Wellness Center.