 After graduating from Fordham, he served in the U.S. Army, and later played for the Allentown Jets of the Eastern Professional Basketball League.Andariese's broadcasting career began with college games in the 1968-69 season before he joined the Knicks as a radio analyst for the 1972–73 season, where he teamed with Marv Albert, who had been calling the play-by-play since 1967.He was paired with Albert through the 1976–1977 season, and again from 1982 to 1986 and 1998 to 2014, and is well represented on the list of New York Knicks broadcasters in both radio and television.