Long-time Cal State-Fullerton coach Andy Newman has been named men’s basketball coach at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, athletics director Steve Aicinena announced Wednesday.
Newman spent the last 10 seasons at Cal State-Fullerton, serving as the team’s interim head coach this past season after nine years as an assistant, five of them as associate head coach. He helped the Titans lead the Big West Conference in scoring in eight of his 10 seasons, including a conference-best 81.8 points per game in 2008 when they were Big West league and tournament champions and earned an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.
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