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Drake staff update

Drake men’s basketball head coach Mark Phelps announced the addition of Chris Brazelton to the coaching staff and the promotion of Nate Meyer from graduate manager to coordinator of basketball operations. Meyer has spent the past two years in the graduate manager position. Brazelton comes to Drake after spending the past five seasons as an

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Barsh named HC @ Southeastern (FL)

Southeastern University has officially named Roy (R-Jay) Barsh II their new men’s basketball coach. Barsh has been the head assistant coach for Tacoma Community College the past four years. Prior to his tenure at TCC, he spent one season at Lincoln High School, in Seattle, where he helped guide the school to the State’s Final

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North Park Hires Coach

North Park University named Tom Slyder as its new head men’s basketball coach. Slyder served as the head coach at Anderson University for the past seven years, where he led the team to a 102-84 record, including a Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship in the 2009-10 season. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball

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Fordham Extends Pecora

Fordham University head men’s basketball coach Tom Pecora has signed a multi-year contract extension. The extension will run through the end of the 2016-2017 season. Pecora just completed his second year at Fordham. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.

Hoiberg Agrees to Eight-Year Contract

Iowa State University announced a new contract for head basketball coach Fred Hoiberg today. The eight-year extension is worth an average of $1.5 million per season, nearly doubling Hoiberg’s current annual salary of $850,000. In his second year as head coach, Hoiberg led his alma mater to its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2005 and

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Weber Finalizes Coaching Staff

K-State men’s basketball coach Bruce Weber added yet another former player to his coaching staff on Tuesday with the addition of former Illinois standout Chester Frazier as an assistant coach. Frazier comes to K-State after playing professionally for two years in Germany, first for Goettingen (2009-10) and then for S. Oliver Baskets Wuerzburg Basketball Club

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Autry promoted at Marquette

Brad Autry, who joined the Marquette University men’s basketball staff in 2008, has been promoted to the position of assistant coach for the upcoming 2012-13 campaign. Autry served as the team’s coordinator of student-athlete development in his first four seasons with the Golden Eagles. Autry owns nearly 20 years of experience at the collegiate level,

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Engen out at Northland

After just two months on the job, Stu Engen is out as the head coach at Northland College. Engen joined Northland on April 23 after a national search. He resigned on Tuesday as men’s head basketball coach and assistant director of athletics. He is leaving the college to pursue an athletic director position at a

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Late Night Dirt – 5/24/12

Long day at the office followed by an even longer night on the Little League field! Here are a few things I’ve heard… • Georgia Southern assistant Steve Smith is headed to Clemson where he will replace James Johnson (hired as HC at Virginia Tech). Smith, who is a South Carolina native, had spent the

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Another Brown Update!

Crazy stuff going on surrounding the search at Brown. Here’s a recap of what’s happened over the last 15 hours or so… Late yesterday afternoon, I reported that I had two sources who each gave me the same four finalists. I said in my blog that I did not love either source (http://hoopdirt.com/blog/1e771ca6/brown-rumors/…), but went

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Hayes Joins UGA Basketball Staff

Three-year UGA letterman Jonas Hayes has joined the Georgia basketball staff as program coordinator. Hayes returns to Georgia after five seasons as an assistant basketball coach at Belmont Abbey College. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.

BREAKING: Baggett named HC @ Rider

Kevin Baggett, the associate head coach at Rider University, has been named the Bronc head coach and will be formally introduced to the media, Rider community and the general public at an 11am press conference Wednesday, May 30, Rider Director of Athletics Don Harnum announced today. Baggett has coached on the Division I level for

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