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Daily Dirt – 4/3/18

A few things that I’ve heard… Mike Rice is a HOT name right now at Pitt. Multiple sources have told me that he is involved with an assistant spot on Jeff Capel’s staff. Rice is a Pittsburgh native who has been the head coach at Rutgers and Robert Morris. He has most recently been working

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Springfield College’s Charlie Brock Named President of the National Association of Basketball Coaches

Springfield College head basketball coach Charlie Brock succeeded University of Kansas head coach Bill Self as president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) on Sunday night during the annual NABC convention, held in conjunction with the 2018 NCAA® Division I Men’s Final Four®. Brock stepped into the role of president a little early

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HOT: Anthony Evans out at FIU

HoopDirt.com now confirm that Anthony Evans is no longer the head coach at Florida International. This was first reported by Jeff Borzello. Evans became the head coach at FIU back in 2013. He compiled a 65-94 mark during his tenure, including a 14-18 (8-10) record this past season. Before coming to FIU, Evans spent six

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Pepperdine Basketball Staff Update

New Pepperdine head basketball coach Lorenzo Romar has added Curtis Allen as an assistant coach, and has hired John Impelman and Gerald Brown in administrative roles. They will join Ken Bone who was named as the associate head coach back on March 13th. Pepperdine’s third assistant position has been filled, but that will not become

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Daily Dirt – 4/2/18

Some things that I’ve heard while waiting to see how many 3’s Villanova will make tonight… I have heard that former Loyola (MD) head coach G.G. Smith will be heading to High Point with his father Tubby. G.G. resigned at Loyola back in March after a five-year run at the school. It sounds like he

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Travis Steele Named Head Basketball Coach at Xavier

Xavier University Director of Athletics Greg Christopher announced today that Xavier Associate Head Coach Travis Steele has been selected as the new Sedler Family Men’s Head Basketball Coach at Xavier. Steele has spent 10 seasons at Xavier, including nine on the staff of his predecessor, Chris Mack. Steele, 36, will be officially introduced as the

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REPORT: Bryant to Hire Iona’s Jared Grasso

Iona associate head coach Jared Grasso will become the next head coach at Bryant University according to multiple reports. Grasso just wrapped up his seventh season on Tim Cluess’ staff. Prior to Iona, Grasso spent four years at Fordham University in the Bronx. In 2009-10, Grasso was named interim head men’s basketball coach for the

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Duke Basketball Staff Update

Duke University men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski announced the hiring of former Blue Devil Chris Carrawell as an assistant coach. Earlier this week, Krzyzewski promoted Nate James and Jon Scheyer to associate head coaches after Jeff Capel was named the head coach at Pittsburgh. To complete his restructured staff, Coach K has also announced that

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