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HoopDirt.com and Just Play Solutions team up for 2017-18 Coach of the Week / Coach of the Year Awards

For Immediate Release November 17, 2017 BOSTON, MA – HoopDirt.com and Just Play Solutions have strengthened their partnership by teaming up to present college basketball’s Coach of the Week Award which will culminate in the 2017-18 Coach of the Year Award. This will be the third season that HoopDirt.com will recognize coaches weekly at the

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Westfield State University Basketball Staff Update

Westfield State University head basketball coach Rich Sutter has added Nate Martins, Robbie Burke, and Wesley Jackson to his staff for the 2017-18 season. Martins, who will serve as the associate head coach, had most recently been the head coach at Rockville High School (CT). He has also worked with the South End Community Center

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Connecticut College Basketball Staff Update

Garvin McAlister and Sam Moser have been named assistant men’s basketball coaches at Connecticut College. They replace Dan Kane who was recently named head men’s basketball coach and Athletic Director at the University of Maine Presque Isle, and Shawn Hallahan who, after four years at Conn, left the college ranks to work in the private

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Chuck Person Pleads Not Guilty In Fraud Case

NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor says the government has 16 hours of telephone conversations by fired Auburn associate head basketball coach Chuck Person to use against him at trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Boone in New York made the disclosure as Person pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges in a college basketball bribery scandal.

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Former Old Dominion coach Jeff Capel Jr. dies of ALS

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Former Old Dominion and Fayetteville State coach Jeff Capel Jr. has died, less than two years after being diagnosed with ALS. Fayetteville State Chancellor James A. Anderson said family members told him of Capel’s death Monday. He was 64. Anderson called Capel one of the school’s “most respected alumni and former

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Medaille College Basketball Staff Update

The Medaille College Men’s Basketball program announced the appointments of two new Assistant Coaches, along with a promotion to a familiar face. Greg Bean, who has been an Assistant Coach for the Mavericks over the past two seasons, has been promoted to Associate Head Coach by Head Coach Mike Blaine. Since Bean has joined the

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Two Auburn Basketball Support Staffers Placed on Administrative Leave

The Auburn University Athletics Department released the following statement this morning: “The Auburn Athletics Department has placed men’s basketball support staff members Jordan VerHulst and Frankie Sullivan on administrative leave until further notice based upon the University’s ongoing investigation into the men’s basketball program.” VerHulst is in his fourth season on the basketball staff at

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