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Eric Daniels Named Assistant at Utah Valley

Utah Valley University men’s basketball head coach Mark Pope announced on Monday the hiring of Eric Daniels as an assistant coach. Daniels joins Cody Fueger and Chris Burgess as new members of the Wolverine staff.”Coach Daniels is a terrific addition to our staff,” said Pope. “His experience as a player and coach in college and

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Tibaldi Named DBO at DePaul

DePaul head coach Dave Leitao announced today that Bryan Tibaldi has joined the program as director of basketball operations. Tibaldi spent the last four seasons in the same role at Missouri and will handle day-to-day operations of the DePaul program. “Bryan will be an integral element of our daily operations in coordinating our team travel,

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Daily Dirt – 6/1/15

Here are a some things that I’ve heard… The first name that has emerged surrounding the search to replace Steve Evans at LeMoyne is Patrick Beilein.  The former West Virginia Wesleyan head coach spent this past season in a player development / video coordinator role with the Utah Jazz.  Beilein was a 1,000 point scorer

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UPDATE: VMI Dirt…

Just a quick update on the VMI Dirt that I posted last week… Chris Kreider and Steve Lepore will in fact be named to Dan Earl’s staff.  The third assistant will not however be Ben Thompson –  I can confirm that it will be former East Tennessee State assistant Jason Slay.  Before joining the ETSU

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OFFICIAL: Phelps Joins Arizona Staff

Arizona head men’s basketball coach Sean Miller announced Monday that Mark Phelps is set to join the Wildcats as an assistant coach. The Virginia Beach, Va., native will bring 19 years of experience at the Division I level, including five as head coach at Drake University, to the UA bench. He has made 13 postseason

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Mihalich Receives Extension at Hofstra

Hofstra University Vice President and Director of Athletics Jeffrey A. Hathaway announced today that Head Men’s Basketball Coach Joe Mihalich has signed a contract extension. In just two seasons at Hofstra, Mihalich has engineered a masterful revitalization of the Pride Basketball program as he took over a program coming off a seven-win campaign and in

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DIII DIRT: Curry College (MA) Finalists

I have heard from great sources that there are three finalists for the vacant head coach position at DIII Curry College.  The final three are: Matt Blue – Former assistant coach Hartford.  Spent 2010 through 2015 on the staff at Hartford.  Has also been an assistant at Lafayette and DIII Susquehanna (PA).  Played collegiately at

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