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Bernard Hopkins Named Head Basketball Coach at Hagerstown CC

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Bernard Hopkins has been named the new head men’s basketball coach at Hagerstown Community College. Hopkins is a graduate of and former player at HCC and has played collegiate and professional basketball for the Colonial Athletic Association, Continental Basketball Association, and Association Club Basketball. “We are very excited to hire a coach that can identify

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Denzel Primus-Devonish Named Graduate Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach at Pace University

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Pace Men’s Basketball Head Coach Matt Healing has announced the hiring of former Pace men’s basketball standout Denzel Primus-Devonish ’14 as a Graduate Assistant Coach. Since his graduation from Pace, he has been coaching on the AAU circuit with the nationally renowned Team Takeover organization. “It feels great to be back at Pace. I am

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Dan Hurley, Brad Stevens, James Jones and Jim Calhoun Headline Brayden Carr Foundation Clinic – 9/16 @ URI

The 2016 Brayden Carr Foundation will hold its inaugural Rhode Island Coaches Clinic on Friday, Sept. 16 at the Thomas M. Ryan Center on the campus of the University of Rhode Island. The Sept. 16 clinic features four outstanding coaches from the collegiate and professional levels of the game:  Rhode Island head coach Dan Hurley,

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How to Evaluate NCSA Basketball Players

We’ve assembled players’ key stats, video, academic and contact information in one place so you don’t have to search. You’re busy coaching. But every basketball coach also has to have their eye on the next class of college-bound players, and the roster after that… Managing upcoming roster openings, while grooming current players to take over

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JUCO DIRT: Central Wyoming set to name Minot State Assistant as Head Coach

HoopDirt.com has learned that Minot State assistant coach Jack Nelson will be named as the next head basketball coach at Central Wyoming College. He will replace Pat Rafferty who resigned back in August to become an assistant coach in the NBA D-League. Nelson had been an assistant coach at Minot State for the past four

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Rhode Island College Staff Update

HoopDirt.com mentioned these moves back on 8/22 (Daily Dirt) – they have now been made official… Rhode Island College Head Men’s Basketball Coach Michael Byrnes has announced the hiring of Matt Mahar and Cory Macchioni as assistant coaches for the 2016-17 campaign. Mahar comes to RIC with over two decades of experience at the collegiate

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HOT: Waleed Farid Named Head Basketball Coach at Hartwick

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Waleed Farid has been named as the head basketball coach at Hartwick College. Farid was first mentioned as a candidate at ‘Wick back on 9/2 (Hartwick Search Update). Farid emerged from a pool of nearly 200 applicants to become the 19th head coach in the 87-year history of the program. Farid has spent the last

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Keenan Named Assistant Basketball Coach at Brooklyn College

Brooklyn College has announced that Thomas Keenan will join the Men’s Basketball Staff as an assistant coach. Keenan played his HS basketball at Canisius HS in Buffalo where he was a 1000+ point scorer and led Canisius to the 1996 NYS CHSAA State Championship Class B.  He was also a 1000+ point scorer and graduate

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IUP Men’s Basketball adds Assistant Coach Brian Urso

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IUP head men’s basketball coach Joe Lombardi has announced the hiring of Brian Urso as an assistant coach. Urso joins the Crimson Hawks after spending the last two years at Chatham University in Pittsburgh. “I would like to thank head coach Joe Lombardi for this wonderful opportunity to be a part of the ‘Hawk Family,’”

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Joe Maggiore Named Director of Men’s Basketball Video Operations

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Miami University men’s basketball announced Tuesday the hiring of Joe Maggiore as its director of video operations. He will coordinate all aspects of the team’s video. “Joe is extremely familiar with Miami men’s basketball through his work with us as an undergraduate and then in an intern role last season. We are thrilled to have

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Kevon Davis Named Men’s Basketball Director of Player Development at Cal Poly

Eighth-year Cal Poly men’s basketball head coach Joe Callero completed the program’s support staff for the upcoming season Monday afternoon with the announcement that Kevon Davis has been appointed as the team’s freshly-created director of player development. Davis, who arrives at Cal Poly after serving the previous two seasons as the assistant coach at two-year

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Daily Dirt – 9/12/16

A bunch of things that I’ve heard… Former Delaware assistant Phil Martelli, Jr. has landed as an assistant with the Delaware 87ers (D-League). He had spent the previous five seasons at UD, and has also worked at Niagara, Manhattan, and Central Connecticut. He played for his father, Phil Martelli, at St. Joe’s. Saagar Sarin has

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