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Cabrera Joins Lebanon Valley Coaching Staff

Former Mansfield University and Messiah College assistant Will Cabrera has joined the Lebanon Valley men’s basketball coaching staff in the same position. “We are extremely excited to have Will joining our staff,” said LVC head coach Brad McAlester. “He’s going to be a great addition to our program and will help us tremendously on the

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Cody Anderson Named DBO at Longwood

Cody Anderson, former student manager for the University of Georgia men’s basketball program, joined the Longwood men’s basketball staff as director of operations, head coach Jayson Gee announced Thursday. In his director of basketball operations role at Longwood, Anderson will coordinate the program’s travel operations, academic monitoring, scouting and film preparation and statistical analysis while

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Julian Terrell Named Assistant at Austin Peay

Julian Terrell, a former Vanderbilt standout who has served as the program’s director of video operations the last two seasons, has been hired as Austin Peay State University men’s assistant basketball coach. The announcement was made by head coach Dave Loos. Terrell replaces Corey Gipson, who left last week for an assistant’s position at Missouri State.

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Hurley Adds Burno to Arizona State Staff

Rashon Burno, assistant coach at the University of Florida the past three seasons, has joined the Arizona State University men’s basketball coaching staff, Coach Bobby Hurley has announced. Burno, who held collegiate coaching positions at Towson State, Manhattan College and the University of Nebraska – the latter post he accepted in May after Florida head

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North Carolina Central Dirt…

On Monday, it was announced that Paris JC (TX) head coach Chuck Taylor had resigned to become an assistant at a DI school in North Carolina (Taylor Resigns at Paris JC).  I have now heard that his landing spot will be North Carolina Central where he will replace Michael Cotton who recently became the associate

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Akbar Waheed Named Assistant at Hofstra

Hofstra University Head Men’s Basketball Coach Joe Mihalich announced today that Akbar Waheed has joined the Pride coaching staff as an assistant coach. Waheed replaces Shane Nichols, who departed for a similar position at Murray State. “Akbar will be a tremendous addition to an already strong staff here at Hofstra,” commented Mihalich. “Akbar was on

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Charleston Southern Dirt II…

I can confirm that Joey Murdock has been hired as an assistant coach at Charleston Southern.  Murdock has been an assistant at Pensacola State College (FL) for the past five seasons.  Before that, he was a GA under Jeff Lebo at Auburn and also spent time as a high school coach in Florida.  He was one of

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Virginia Staff Update

Virginia men’s basketball head coach Tony Bennett has promoted assistant coach Ron Sanchez to associate head coach. Bennett also promoted Vic Sfera to director of scouting/recruiting and recently added Orlando Vandross as the director of recruiting/player development. Sanchez has served as an assistant coach at Virginia for the last six seasons after holding the same

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B180 Basketball Fundamental Skills Program Improves Basketball Players’ Academic Reading Skills

The B180 Basketball Fundamental Skills Program Improves Basketball Players’ Academic Reading Skills Average 20 and 10 = Improve 20 Lexile Levels in 10 days www.b180basketball.com What Makes the B180 Basketball Fundamental Skills Program the Most Complete Basketball Skills Training Program Ever Put On Cards According to a recent report by CNN http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/us/ncaa-athletes-reading-scores/ student athletes’ reading

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