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Rutgers officials will meet Sunday with Eddie Jordan for the second time in as many days, hoping to hammer out a deal.

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Rutgers officials will meet Sunday morning with Eddie Jordan for the second time in as many days, hoping to continue hammering out a deal that will have the Los Angeles Lakers assistant – and ex-Scarlet Knights star — being introduced as the school’s new basketball coach in the coming week, according multiple people familiar with the proceedings.

Those people requested anonymity because negotiations are ongoing.

Jordan, who helped Rutgers to the Final Four in 1976, flew to New Jersey on Saturday for a first meeting with school officials at an undisclosed location in the state, two people confirmed to The Star-Ledger. Over the course of the two days, Jordan was scheduled to meet with Rutgers president Robert Barchi.

His first meeting with school officials did not end until approximately 11 p.m. Saturday night.

One person familiar with the school’s thinking said if all goes well, an announcement of Jordan’s hiring could be made as soon as Monday, with an introductory press conference later in the week. But a person privy to the first meeting said "there are a lot of layers to address, not all necessarily basketball" and that the hiring process and negotiations could last through Tuesday.

Jordan, 58, became the focus of Rutgers’ interest to replace Mike Rice after Rhode Island coach Dan Hurley, a standout at Seton Hall and St. Anthony of Jersey City, withdrew from consideration for the job on Thursday.

Rice was fired on April 3, a day after ESPN aired portions of a 30-minute video showing him verbally and physically abusing players in practice, and also screaming gay slurs.

Since then, athletic director Tim Pernetti, university counsel John Wolf and assistant coach Jimmy Martelli have resigned.

Jordan, who scored 1,632 points as a four-year starter at guard from 1973-77 at Rutgers, played for five NBA teams during a career that spanned from 1977 through 1984.

He has served as the head coach for the Sacramento Kings, Philadelphia 76ers and Washington Wizards (compiling a record of 257-343), though his college coaching has been limited to stints as an assistant at Rutgers, Old Dominion and Boston College.

Though Yahoo Sports reported on Friday that Rutgers offered Jordan the job, multiple sources said that was not true, with the school making its first official contact with him that day.

The pursuit of Jordan will precede the hiring of a new athletic director at Rutgers, which contradicts the accepted practice of having the new athletic director hire all high-profile coaches. Rutgers is in the process of putting together a selection committee to assist in the search for a new athletic director, with Richard Edwards and Kate Sweeney having already been named co-chairs of the panel by Barchi.

Though multiple media reports had Rutgers officials flying to Los Angeles to meet with Jordan, the sides agreed late Friday night that it was easier for Jordan to head East, with the Lakers having off days Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.

Jordan, who was a candidate in Rutgers’ two previous coaching searches, still owns a home in Montgomery in Somerset County.