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Daily Dirt – 8/6/19

A bunch of things that I’ve heard… Following up on something that I TWEETED earlier this morning…former Portland assistant Bob Cantu has landed at Kansas. He will serve in a non-coaching role as an advisor on Bill Self’s staff. He was at Portland from 2016 until this past spring, spent three seasons assistant at UTEP,

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Rogers Added to Oklahoma Baptist Men’s Basketball Staff

Zac Rogers has been named assistant coach on the Oklahoma Baptist men’s basketball staff. Rogers spent the last season at Division II Midwestern State in the Lone Star Conference. “Today is another significant day for our players in hiring Zac Rogers to be our assistant coach,” said head coach Jason Eaker. “We are impressed with his family, character, and

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Columbia tabs Levine as Assistant Basketball Coach

Justin Levine will join the Columbia men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach fourth-year head coach Jim Engles announced today. Levine comes to the Lions after spending four seasons, the last two as video coordinator, at Virginia Commonwealth University. “Justin’s accomplished a lot in a short amount of time in this business,” Engles said. “He

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Sam Houston State Dirt…

Following up on something that I tweeted earlier tonight… I can confirm that Sam Houston State assistant Chuck Taylor has departed the staff and will enter the private sector. Taylor had been on the Bearkats staff since 2016. Prior to coming to SHSU, he served as an assistant at North Carolina Central and also spent

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Xavier Dirt…

Xavier will name current Evansville assistant Matthew Graves as their new Special Assistant to the head coach. Graves joined the Evansville staff prior to last season after spending five seasons as the head coach at South Alabama (65-96). Prior to heading to USA, Graves had spent 17 years at Butler both as a player, and also

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