Heiden Ratner is beginning his first year with Kentucky Christian University. Ratner will be a graduate assistant coach with the men’s basketball team this season. Coach Ratner comes to KCU from Las Vegas. Before starting his coaching career Heiden was a player at top levels, he started his college playing career as a combo guard
Pitino Signs 5-Year Extension
Rick Pitino signed a five-year contract extension with Louisville that will keep the coach with the Cardinals through the 2021-22 season. His $3.9 million base salary remains the same, but he will earn a $600,000 retention bonus every other year from 2014 to 2022. In 27 seasons as a collegiate head coach at five different
USC Upstate Gives Payne Extension
South Carolina Upstate has given men’s basketball coach Eddie Payne a contract extension through the 2015-16 season. Payne has guided the USC Upstate program for the past 11 years, helping the Spartans transition from Division II to Division I in 2007. The Spartans were 21-13 last season, tied for second in the Atlantic Sun Conference
OFFICIAL: Ehmer named HC @ SLC
Chris Ehmer has been named Sarah Lawrence College Men’s Basketball Coach/Assistant Director of Athletics, as announced by Director of Athletics and Physical Education Kristin Maile. Ehmer comes to Sarah Lawrence by way of Kenyon College, where has been the men’s basketball Assistant Coach since 2010 and has served as Head Golf Coach since 2011. He
La Rocque added to NAU staff
Longtime Nevada prep head coach Al La Rocque has joined the Northern Arizona men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach for Jack Murphy, one of his former players at Durango High School, Murphy announced. La Rocque brings 20 years of head coaching experience to the staff, including five years at Western High School from 1975-80
Former UTPA Coach Williams dies
The University of Texas-Pan American Department of Intercollegiate Athletics is saddened to announce that UTPA Hall of Famer and men’s basketball head coach emeritus Sam Williams, who coached the Broncs to the 1963 NAIA National Championship, passed away on Monday at the age of 88 due to natural causes. An inaugural member of the UTPA
Saint Anselm College Hires Assistant
Saint Anselm as hired former captain John Mariano as its new assistant coach. Mariano graduated from Saint Anselm in 2011. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.
Saul Smith on leave at Minnesota
Minnesota assistant Saul Smith has been placed on administrative leave by the university following an arrest for suspicion of DWI on 10/21. Smith, who is the son of Minnesota head coach Tubby Smith, is scheduled to appear in court on December 3rd. "While we do not want to rush to judgment before the legal process
F&M staff update
Franklin & Marshall head men’s basketball coach Glenn Robinson announced Nick Nichay and Fitzgerald Christophe as assistant coaches. Nichay comes to Franklin & Marshall after having spent two years at the Division II level as an assistant coach for Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y. While at Le Moyne, Nichay was responsible for recruiting, player
SW Tenn CC coach fired
According to FOX13 in Mmephis, Southwest Tennessee CC head coach Benjamin Rhodes has been fired after he pleaded guilty to stealing more than $12,000 in social security disability payments from four dead people. Rhodes confessed to the crime in U.S. District Court in Memphis and now faces five years in federal prison. He also confessed
Hull resigns at CCS
Community College of Spokane head coach Clint Hull has resigned for personal reasons. He will be replaced by assistant coach Jeremy Groth who has been an assistant to Hull for the past four seasons. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.
OFFICIAL: Moore joins UConn staff
Been talking about this for a while….just wanted to pass along the official press release from UConn now that Ricky Moore has been named as the assistant director of basketball operations: http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/101212a… Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.