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D3 DIRT: Finlandia set to name new Head Coach

It sounds like D3 Finlandia University (MI) will name Allen Dehority as the Interim Head Men’s Basketball Coach. He would replace Sam Casey, who went 1-23 in his only season with the Lions. Dehority has most recently served on the women’s basketball staff at Finlandia. He also spent three seasons as an assistant at Rose-Hulman

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Southeastern Louisiana Promotes Conroy to Interim Assistant Basketball Coach

The Southeastern Louisiana men’s basketball team promoted Riley Conroy to interim assistant coach, second-year SLU men’s head basketball coach David Kiefer announced Monday. Conroy’s hire is pending the approval of the Louisiana System’s Board of Supervisors. The New Orleans, Louisiana native is in his second season with the program after serving as the team’s director of recruiting

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11th Annual Rising Coaches Conference – October 5-9, 2020

11th Annual Rising Coaches Conference Oct 5-9th Via Zoom Sign up for Free at www.risingcoaches.com/events Conference will start at 6pm EST each night. Recordings will be available on our member site to watch on-demand Speakers include… Buzz Williams Tommy Amaker Cori Close Paul Biancardi Michelle Clark-Heard Alan Stein Joe Prunty Larry Shyatt And many more…

McKinney named new Head Men’s Basketball Coach at SUNY Ulster

Marques McKinney has been named the next Head Men’s Basketball Coach at SUNY Ulster. McKinney, originally from Fishkill, NY; has had several assistant coaching positions over the last four seasons, including stints at Cazenovia College, Medaille College, New York Institute of Technology, and most recently Onondaga Community College. In 2016-17 at Medaille College, he helped lead

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Bennett added to SUNY Canton MBB staff

Former SUNY Canton men’s basketball standout Kahdean Bennett has been added to the men’s basketball staff as a volunteer assistant coach, as announced by Head Men’s Basketball Coach Shiva Senthil on Friday.   Bennett begins his coaching career after playing for the Roos for four seasons from 2016-2020. He was the starting point guard for

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Cooper named Assistant Basketball Coach at SMU

 John Cooper has been named an assistant coach by Head Coach Tim Jankovich. Cooper has served as head coach at Miami (Ohio) and Tennessee State as well as an assistant coach at Oklahoma State, South Carolina, Oregon and Auburn. Cooper has recorded more than 100 wins as a Division I head coach, and joins the Mustangs after three

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Daily Dirt – 10/2/20

A few quick things to wrap-up the week… I have heard that North Texas Director of Basketball Operations Andy Schmitt will be departing the staff, and will join basketball analytics company HD Intelligence. Schmittt had been at UNT since 2018, and was at New Mexico before that. Former Rutgers and Rhode Island assistant Jim Carr

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