Author Archives: The DirtKing

OFFICIAL: Anderson named Head Basketball Coach at FDU

Following-up on yesterday’s report (FDU DIRT). The hiring of Tobin Anderson at FDU has now been made official. Here’s the release: Fairleigh Dickinson Director of Athletics Bradford Hurlbut announced Tuesday the hiring of Tobin Anderson as the eighth head men’s basketball coach in Knights history. Anderson will be officially introduced at a press conference on Thursday, May 5 at 1

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Johnson promoted to Associate Head Coach at Texas A&M

Texas A&M men’s basketball’s Devin Johnson, a 12-year member of head coach Buzz Williams‘ staff, has been promoted to associate head coach, Williams announced. “Coach Devin has earned this promotion in every way possible! He just finished his 11th year in our program, and has filled every job on our staff from top to bottom,” Williams said.

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Daily Dirt – 5/3/22

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) A bunch of things that I have heard… Nicholls State assistant Stevie Taylor is on the move, and will become the Director of Basketball Operations at Toledo. Taylor was hired at Nicholls last summer following a two-year stint as an assistant at Langston University. He also worked at Boston College as

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D2 DIRT: STAC set promote Cappell to Head Coach

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) Following up on a bunch of reports from earlier today… With St. Thomas Aquinas’ Tobin Anderson headed to FDU as the Knights new head coach (FDU DIRT), it now appears that STAC associate head coach Matt Capell will take over for Anderson. In today’s Daily Dirt, I said that Anderson would be

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D3 DIRT: Ferrum College opens

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) I can confirm that Tyler Sanborn is no longer the men’s basketball head coach at D3 Ferrum. Not a ton of inside info on this one – I just know that Ferrum paid us to advertise the open position (HERE). Sanborn had been the head coach at Ferrum since 2017 and

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D2 St. Cloud State finalists

Usually, I have to dig for this stuff. St. Cloud State made it easy – they have published their three finalists for the vacant men’s basketball position. Here’s the release from SCSU: St. Cloud State University Director of Athletics Heather Weems has narrowed down the search for the next men’s basketball head coach to three finalists, as

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Kershaw named Head Basketball Coach at Carleton College

Carleton College named Ryan Kershaw its head men’s basketball coach. He is the 12th head coach in the program’s 112-year history and replaces Guy Kalland, who announced his retirement in March following 38 seasons at the helm of the Knights. Kershaw recently completed his ninth season as the lead men’s basketball assistant coach at Carleton and has served

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OFFICIAL: Scheyer adds Lucas to Duke Basketball Staff

 Duke University men’s basketball head coach Jon Scheyer has announced the hiring of former University of Kentucky assistant coach Jai Lucas (pronounced “jay”), who will hold the same position on Scheyer’s inaugural staff. A heralded recruiter with Durham ties, Lucas, 33, is regarded as one of the nation’s top assistant coaches. His mother, Debbie, and father, Houston Rockets assistant

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