HoopDirt.com news sponsored by Dr. Dish Texas Tech men’s basketball head coach Tubby Smith will receive the 2016 John R. Wooden “Legends of Coaching” award announced Tuesday at the Los Angeles Athletic Club’s annual Wooden Award Tipoff Luncheon. Adopted by the Wooden Award Steering Committee in 1999, the “Legends of Coaching” honor recognizes coaches who
Cal head coach Cuozno Martin wore a microphone for the first practice of the year last week. It all starts with “Are you willing to make the decision to succeed?” Watch the rest to see how well Martin communicates with his team. Video Courtesy Cal Athletics
HoopDirt.com news sponsored by Dr. Dish University of Louisville men’s basketball assistant coach Ralph Willard will take a medical leave of absence from the Cardinals’ program to attend to a health issue. Willard, who re-joined head coach Rick Pitino’s staff in April, has been advised by doctors to back away from his coaching duties to
HoopDirt.com news sponsored by Dr. Dish Following up on a rumor that HoopDirt.com posted on Monday (NAIA DIRT). It has now been made official – Dionne Phelps has been named the new assistant coach for the Oakland men’s basketball team, announced head coach Greg Kampe. Phelps joins the staff after spending the past four years as
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Registration is underway here for the annual John Groce Fighting Illini Basketball Coaches Clinic, scheduled for Oct. 16-17 at the Ubben Basketball Practice Facility on the University of Illinois campus. This year’s clinic features talks by head coach John Groce along with special guest speakers Seth Greenberg and Herb Sendek, and includes three Illini practices, a social
Last week, I mentioned that an NAIA job had opened (Daily Dirt – 10/9/15). I can now confirm that Oklahoma City University (NAIA DI) Head Coach Dionne Phelps has resigned in order to become an assistant coach at Oakland University. Before coming to OCU back in 2011, Phelps had spent five seasons as an assistant at
HoopDirt.com can confirm that Idaho assistant coach Joe Ford has resigned. Ford was placed on administrative leave late last month pending an investigation stemming from a possible inappropriate relationship with a female student-athlete while he was an assistant at Pacific last season. Back in May, Ford resigned from Ron Verlin’s staff at Pacific, and was hired by Verlin’s
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HoopDirt.com news sponsored by Dr. Dish Last month, HoopDirt.com reported that Conor Dow had been hired as the Director of Basketball Operations at Lafayette (DI DIRT: Administrative Staffers Hired). The hiring was made official today by Head coach Fran O’Hanlon. Dow comes to the Leopards after a four-year playing career at Clark University in Worcester,
A few things to close out the week… I can confirm that new Allegheny (PA) head coach Bob Simmons will add Chris Acculto to his staff. Acculto had previously served as an assistant to Simmons at Marywood (PA). Wheaton College (MA) assistant Derek DeMasi has departed to become an assistant at St. Andrews Prep School
HoopDirt.com news sponsored by Dr. Dish Union County College has hired Damel Ling as the head coach of the Men’s Basketball program for the start of the 2015-16 season. Not only is Coach Ling an accomplished basketball coach on the court, he also establishes an inspiring motivational atmosphere, which translates into success for his players on and
