Penn State men’s basketball head coach Patrick Chambers has announced the appointment of veteran coach Jim Ferry as an assistant coach for the Nittany Lions. Most recently the head coach at Duquesne, Ferry will travel with the team for its foreign tour trip to the Bahamas later this week. “We absolutely seized the opportunity to
Assistant basketball coach Hunter Hageman has resigned. The Kingman, Ks. native was to begin his third season on the bench for the Roadrunners, but will now pursue opportunities closer to his family and friends in Kansas. His last day as a Roadrunner will be August 4. Coach Hageman came to Dalton State in the summer
The Oglethorpe men’s basketball team will have a new assistant coach headed into the 2017-18 season. Zach Altany joins the Oglethorpe coaching staff, coming to the Stormy Petrels after a two-year stint as a graduate assistant at Division II Georgia College in Milledgeville. “I am very excited to have Zach join the Stormy Petrel family
The University of Minnesota Crookston athletic department announced Krayton Nash as head women’s tennis coach and assistant men’s basketball coach. Nash has been a coach at the high school, prep school and collegiate level for the last 14 years. “We are excited to welcome Krayton Nash to the University of Minnesota Crookston,” said Director of
According to a report by The Michigan Insider, Wolverines head coach John Beilein will once again tap into the Illinois State basketball staff to hire an assistant coach. Late last week, it was reported that ISU assistant coach DeAndre Haynes would fill one of the two vacant assistant spots on the Michigan staff, and now
Marques McKinney has joined the NYIT men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach, head coach Kevin Hamilton announced. McKinney, 34, served as an assistant coach at Medaille College in Buffalo during the 2016-17 season. He helped lead the Mavericks to a 21-7 record, Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship and Division III NCAA Tournament berth. McKinney
Jon Nevol was introduced at a news conference Friday as the new head men’s basketball coach at Blue Mountain College. Nevol heads to BMC from Jones County Junior College (Miss.), where he helped lead the Bobcats this past season to state and regional titles and a Sweet 16 appearance in the NJCAA National Tournament. “Being
Following up on some DIRT from earlier today. It’s now been made official that after six years of leading the Essex County College Men’s Basketball team, Head Coach Corey Lowery has stepped down from the position to pursue other coaching opportunities. Coach Lowery leaves Essex as the winningest coach in program history. Lowery’s teams have
Some things that I’ve heard as July winds down… I have heard from a great source that Jarvis Christian College (TX) head coach Chevis Thompson has departed, and will become an assistant at Frank Phillips College (TX). Thompson served as the head coach at JCC since 2014, and has also been the head coach at
HoopDirt.com can confirm that Corey Lowery has resigned at NJCAA DII powerhouse Essex County College. He had been the head coach at the school since the 2011 season, and also spent prior to that four seasons as the head coach at Middlesex CC (NJ). An official statement is expected later this afternoon.
Waleed Samaha is leaving his position as Michigan’s director of basketball operations. A school spokesman confirmed Thursday that Samaha was leaving. The Wolverines hired him in 2016 after a long tenure as a basketball coach at Huron High School. Samaha took over the boys’ basketball team at Huron in 2002 and spent 14 seasons as
Wheaton men’s basketball head coach Mike Schauer has announced the hiring of Shawntae Gibbs as an assistant coach for the Thunder men’s basketball program. Gibbs is a 2017 graduate of Indiana University-Southeast, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Secondary Education with a focus in Language Arts. Gibbs played basketball as a freshman for the
