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BREAKING DI DIRT: Perry Out at USC Upstate

HoopDirt.com can confirm an ESPN report that Kyle Perry is no longer the head basketball coach at USC Upstate. While there has been no official statement by the university, Perry, as well as AD Julio Freire, have had their names removed from the official USC Upstate website. Perry took over back in October after head

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2017-18 DI Conference Coach of the Year Tracker

HoopDirt.com is tracking all of the 2017-18 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Conference Coach of the Year winners. The list will be updated as awards roll in. Congratulations to the following coaches:   America East Conference American Athletic Conference Atlantic 10 Conference Atlantic Coast Conference Atlantic Sun Conference: Joe Dooley – Florida Gulf Coast Big

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Wisconsin-La Crosse Men’s Basketball Search Narrowed to Three

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse has named three finalists to be interviewed for the head men’s basketball coach position, according to the search and screen committee. The three finalists are Kent Dernbach, interim head men’s basketball coach at UW-La Crosse; Zach Malvik, head assistant men’s basketball coach at Winona State University (Minn.) and Steve Schweer, assistant

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Southern Virginia Head Coach Tony Caputo Retires

After coaching over 700 contests in two decades and wrapping up an 11-14 men’s basketball season, Southern Virginia University men’s basketball coach Tony Caputo has announced his retirement from coaching. “It has been exciting over the years to have been a pioneer in the Southern Virginia Athletic Department and to have been able to watch

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Daily Dirt – 2/26/18

A few things that I’ve heard today with some news and updates mixed in… With Dan McHale being released today at Eastern Kentucky, the early HOT name there is Nicholls State head coach Richie Riley. A former EKU player (played for Travis Ford) and assistant coach (worked for Jeff Neubauer), Riley currently has Nicholls State

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