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Temple Basketball Staff Update

New Temple head basketball coach Adam Fisher has announced three additions to his staff. Chris Clark and Bobby Jordan have been named as assistant coaches, and Jimmy Polisi has been added as the director of basketball operations. They join Michael Huger, who was announced as the associate head coach last week. CHRIS CLARK Chris Clark,

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Pickens joins UT Arlington Basketball Staff

 UT Arlington men’s basketball head coach KT Turner has finalized his third assistant coach position with the hiring of former Division-I student-athlete Keith Pickens. Pickens, 32, spent the previous five seasons (2018-23) in the same position at Southeast Missouri, helping lead the Redhawks to the NCAA Tournament last month after SEMO won its first Ohio Valley Conference Tournament

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Valpo Basketball Staff Update

Valparaiso University men’s basketball head coach Roger Powell Jr. has announced the first three members of his coaching staff as Pat Baldwin and Matt Gordon will serve as assistant coaches, while Kylen Butler joins the staff as special assistant to the head coach. Baldwin brings head coaching experience to the Valpo bench as he spent five seasons as the head coach at Milwaukee

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OFFICIAL: Rector named Head Basketball Coach at Coker

Following-up on something that I first mentioned back on April 13th (D2 DIRT). Coker University has officially named Brett Rector as their new head men’s basketball coach. Here’s the press release from the school: Brett Rector has been named Coker University’s head men’s basketball coach, announced today Wednesday, April 19th  by Vice President of Athletics

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Daily Dirt – 4/19/23

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) The search at UIW is moving quickly. I can confirm that after initial interviews, the pool has been cut to seven, with 1 or 2 coming to campus very shortly. The names that I’ve heard include, Arkansas assistant Gus Argenal, LSU assistant Ronnie Hamilton, Central Michigan assistant Shane Heirman, Santa Clara

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Peterson named DBO at ETSU

New ETSU men’s basketball head coach Brooks Savage has named Rob Peterson as the Buccaneers Director of Basketball Operations. “We are excited to welcome Rob and his family to ETSU,” said Savage. “Rob is a talented young coach who will be a major contributor to helping us build a championship program. He has been around the game his

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Utah State Basketball Staff Update

Head men’s basketball coach Danny Sprinkle has announced the hiring of Andy Hill and Chris Haslam as assistant coaches on his staff at Utah State. They had both previously served under Sprinkle at Montana State. Andy HillDuring the 2022-23 campaign, Hill helped lead Montana State to a 25-10 overall record and its second-straight NCAA Tournament appearance. It

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Oklahoma names Gates as new Assistant Basketball Coach

Oklahoma head men’s basketball coach Porter Moser announced the addition of Armon Gates to his staff as an assistant coach on Tuesday. No stranger to Moser and the Sooner staff, Gates spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Loyola Chicago under Moser (2011-13) and worked with OU assistant coach Ryan Humphrey and director of operations Tad Glibert at Northwestern. “Armon

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Curran joins George Mason Basketball Staff

George Mason University men’s basketball head coach Tony Skinn announced Tuesday that Steve Curran will join his staff as associate head coach. A principal architect of St. Bonaventure’s development into one of the Atlantic 10’s preeminent powers, Curran has worked alongside Mark Schmidt for the past 13 seasons. He has served as associate head coach

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