Stevens Institute of Technology has promoted Waleed Farid to it’s top assistant. Farid was a volunteer assistant with the Ducks last season and replaces Brendan Twomey, who was recently named the head coach at Centenary College. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.
HOT: C. Conn’s Dickenman signs extension
Central Connecticut Director of Athletics Paul Schlickmann has announced that head men’s basketball coach Howie Dickenman has signed a contract extension that will keep him as the head coach at his alma mater through the 2015-16 season. Dickenman will be entering his 17th season leading the Blue Devils in 2012-13. Dickenman’s record speaks for itself
Charleston Southern staff update
Men’s Basketball Coach Barclay Radebaugh announced the addition of Kyle Dobyns and Eric Lechlitner to the CSU men’s basketball coaching staff for the 2012-2013 season. Dobyns will take over as Director of Basketball Operations for the Buccaneers, while Lechlitner will serve as the team’s Video Coordinator for the upcoming season. Dobyns comes to Charleston Southern
Friday named AC at Susquehanna
Susquehanna’s head men’s basketball coach Frank Marcinek has announced the hiring of Don Friday as his new assistant coach, announced on Monday. Friday comes to SU from Division I St. Francis (Pa.) where he was the head coach from 2008-12. He led the Red Flash to the Northeast Conference (NEC) playoffs in 2010 and 2011,
Corbin promoted at Shenandoah
Shenandoah University Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Doug Zipp and head men’s basketball coach Rob Pryor announced that Allen Corbin has been promoted to full-time assistant men’s basketball coach. Corbin, who joined the SU staff as Pryor’s lead assistant prior to the 2011-12 campaign, becomes the 19th full-time coach in the department and the sixth full-time
Toledo Hires Ops Guy
Toledo head coach Tod Kowalczyk announced the addition of Michael Bennett to the Rockets’ staff as the program’s director of basketball operations. Bennett, who comes to Toledo following one year as the video coordinator for Ball State’s men’s basketball program, replaces Brad Konerman who resigned in late August. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college
Walberg to Nuggets
Former Pepperdine head coach Vance Walberg has been named as an assistant on George Karl’s staff with the Denver Nuggets. He had most recently been an assistant at UMass and is credited with developing the dribble-drive offense. Here’s the story from the Denver Post: Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and
Bensman named AC @ ONU
Rich Bensman has been named an assistant men’s basketball coach at Ohio Northern University. Bensman comes to ONU after a highly successful prep basketball coaching career, where he won 296 games and an Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championship in 18 seasons at the helm at Cincinnati Reading High School. He was named the
Wright State staff update
The Wright State Department of Athletics announced three staff moves Friday as men’s basketball director of operations Brendan Mullins has been promoted to an assistant coach position, and Bill Donlon, Sr. has been named to replace him as the director of operations. Additionally, former Raider great Bill Edwards has been added as assistant strength and
UConn staff restructured
The University of Connecticut men’s basketball coaching staff has been restructured under new head coach Kevin Ollie. Glen Miller, starting the third season of his second stint on the UConn staff, will assume the duties of Associate Head Coach, while Karl Hobbs, last year’s Director of Basketball Administration, will join veteran George Blaney as fulltime
Roy Williams update
– University of North Carolina men’s basketball coach Roy Williams had a biopsy of the tumor on his left kidney Wednesday at UNC Hospitals. The results of the biopsy indicate it is an oncocytoma (pronounced ON-ko-sigh-TOE-muh), a non-cancerous kidney tumor. Williams had surgery to remove a tumor from his right kidney on September19th, which was
Air Force adds assistant
Tyron Wright has been hired as an assistant coach for the Air Force men’s basketball program, according to head coach Dave Pilipovich. Wright, who was an assistant coach for Air Force from 2006-09 and a graduate assistant coach for the Falcons during the 2000-01 campaign, worked in the registrar’s office at the Academy and was