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Eastern Kentucky Extends Head Coach A.W. Hamilton’s Contract Through 2026-27

Eastern Kentucky University secured men’s basketball head coach A.W. Hamilton with a contract extension through the 2026-27 season, Vice President and Director of Athletics Matt Roan announced today. This past season, Hamilton led the Colonels to the championship game of the College Basketball Invitational (CBI).  EKU’s 23 wins were the third-most in one season in program history and

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Doherty named Director of Basketball Operations at Harvard

Tripp Doherty – formerly on the men’s basketball staffs at Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Harvard – is set to re-join the Harvard University men’s basketball staff as the Director of Basketball Operations ahead of the 2023-24 season, Tommy Amaker, The Thomas G. Stemberg ’71 Family Endowed Coach for Harvard Men’s Basketball, announced on Wednesday. During the 2022-23

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Kearney named Head Basketball Coach at SUNY Cortland

Maurice Kearney has been named the men’s basketball head coach at SUNY Cortland, according to Director of Athletics Mike Urtz. Kearney replaces Tom Spanbauer, who retired from the position this past spring after 28 years at the helm.  Kearney is a former Cortland men’s basketball player and coaching staff member. In his four-season playing career

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OFFICIAL: Jennings named Head Basketball Coach at D2 Edinboro

Following up on something that HoopDirt.com first mentioned yesterday (D2 DIRT). Drexel assistant Justin Jennings has officially been named as the new Head Basketball Coach at D2 Edinboro University (PA). Here is the statement the Edinboro released: Edinboro has hired Justin Jennings as the 12th head coach of the Fighting Scot men’s basketball program. Jennings joins the

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DAILY DIRT: Prep Edition (Part II)

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) Following-up on last week’s DAILY DIRT: Prep Edition – a couple more coaches have made the move to the prep / HS level… D2 West Florida assistant coach Brian Benator is headed to Heathwood Hall (SC) where he will become the new head boy’s basketball coach. Benator had been on the UWF

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Utah State adds Lorenzo as Director of Basketball Analytics

Utah State head men’s basketball coach Danny Sprinkle announced the hiring of Anthony Lorenzo as director of basketball analytics. Lorenzo spent the last four seasons as Washington State’s coordinator of operations, first joining the staff as a graduate manager in charge of operations in 2019-20. Prior to WSU, Lorenzo spent two seasons at the Academy of Art

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