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BREAKING: Bzdelik era comes to end at Wake Forest

Wake Forest AD Ron Wellman has scheduled a 5:00pm press conference for this afternoon to announce that Jeff Bzdelik will not return for the final year of his contract. Bzdelik finishes his tenure at Wake with a 51-76 record (17-51 ACC). More on this after the presser.

BREAKING: Lallathin named head coach at Kennesaw State

Jimmy Lallathin, who served as interim head coach for the final 16 games of the 2013-14 season, has been named head men’s basketball coach, Kennesaw State Director of Athletics Vaughn Williams announced on Thursday. Lallathin, who began the just-concluded season as associate head coach, was elevated to interim head coach on Jan. 2 when head

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Daily Dirt – 3/20/14

Two quickies as I get ready to watch these games… • From an excellent source…San Jose State assistants Omar Lowery and Jack Kennedy have resigned. They had both just completed their first seasons on Dave Wojcik’s staff. Lowery had come to SJSU from Cal Poly, and Kennedy from the University of San Francisco. No word

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HOT: Preston and Kennesaw State part ways

Kennesaw State University and Lewis Preston have mutually agreed that he will not return as head coach of the men’s basketball program, Director of Athletics Vaughn Williams announced today. "I want to personally thank Lewis for his hard work and dedication as head men’s basketball coach during the last three years," Williams said. "There were

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Lamar rumor…

Multiple sources have told me Tic Price will have his interim tag removed and named head coach at Lamar today. It sounds like the announcement will come at a 3:00 press conference. Price took over for Pat Knight with five games remaining this past season. Price has previously been the head coach at Memphis, McNeese

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BREAKING: Auburn hires Bruce Pearl

Auburn hired Bruce Pearl as its new basketball coach Tuesday, bringing in a frequent visitor to the NCAA Tournament, a coach with SEC experience, a three-time national coach of the year and fan favorite. Pearl coached at Tennessee from 2005 through the 2011 season, taking all six of his teams to the NCAA Tournament. He’s

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Jacksonville rumors…

Some names that I’ve heard surrounding the search to replace Cliff Warren at Jacksonville… • Darrin Horn – Former head coach South Carolina and Western Kentucky. Holds a 171-111 record in 9 seasons as a DI head coach. Had 4 straight 22+ win seasons at WKU capping it off with a 29 win campaign in

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Recapping a crazy day on the coaching front

Wow…what a crazy day today… IN: Bruce Pearl hired at Auburn, Tic Price made official at Lamar. OUT: Steve Donahue out at BC, Ken Bone shown the door at Washington State, and Brad Huse resigns at Montana St. Also, because it was so busy today, some of our rumors got pushed off of the front

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DII rumor…

One very good source told me last night (and another confirmed it this morning) that DII Minnesota Crookston will not renew the contract of head coach Jeff Oseth. The Golden Eagles just wrapped up their second consecutive 4 win season for Oseth who holds a 59-263 record at the school since 2002. It sounds like

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HOT RUMOR: Schroyer to UT-Martin

I have heard from two good sources that UNLV associate head coach Heath Schroyer will be named as the next head coach at Tennessee Martin. The press conference has been scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. New UTM AD Julio Freire was most recently an assistant AD at UNLV hence the connection to Schroyer. I first mentioned

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BREAKING: Huse resigns at Montana State

Montana State head coach Brad Huse has resigned after eight seasons on the job at Montana State. He informed AD Peter Fields in a meeting this morning of his decision. Huse compiled a 107-133 during his tenure at MSU. The official press release is expected soon.

HOT RUMOR: Bone dismissed at Washington State

Multiple sources are reporting that Ken Bone was dismissed today as the head coach at Washington State. Bone just wrapped up his fifth season at WSU and compiled a 79-85 record (28-61 Pac-12). An official statement is expected sometime this afternoon.