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Mansfield University men’s basketball head coach Pat Zipfel has announced the hiring of Marcus Smith as the Mountaineers’ assistant coach. “I’m very pleased to have Marcus join our program. His experience in the PSAC will be a great asset as we continue to build this program” said Zipfel. “We had a large pool of candidates
Central Wyoming College head coach Pat Rafferty has resigned and will become an assistant coach with Brooklyn Nets new NBA D-League team. Rafferty had been the head coach at Central Wyoming for the past three seasons. The veteran coach has experience in professional basketball, having previously served as a scout for the Minnesota Timberwolves. During
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Late last month, HoopDirt.com published two Cal Irvine staff updates (Cal Irvine Dirt, Cal Irvine Dirt II). The hirings that we mentioned have now been made official… UC Irvine head basketball coach Russell Turner has completed his staff with the hiring of three new members this summer. Blaine Taylor has been named an assistant coach,
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Tusculum College has named Jay Welborn assistant men’s basketball coach, head coach Michael Jones has announced. Welborn spent the past four seasons as the head coach at Snead State Community College in Boaz, Alabama, where his Parsons teams annually played competitive non-conference schedules while competing as a member of the Alabama Community College Conference. While
DK headed out on vacation tomorrow….here are some things I’ve heard while packing my Speedo… Louisiana Tech assistant Shawn Forrest has joined the SMU staff. It’s been an odd off season for Forrest – he was on the Western Kentucky staff this past season, and was not retained when Ray Harper was let go. He
Louisiana Tech head coach Eric Konkol announced that Yaphett King will be joining the men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach. King comes to LA Tech after recently serving four years as an assistant coach at Texas A&M—Corpus Christi. “Yaphett King is a talented coach and skilled recruiter with an energetic personality,” Konkol said. “He
New Mexico State head men’s basketball coach Paul Weir rounded out his coaching staff with the addition of Marc Hsu. Hsu is very much familiar with Las Cruces, having spent his second year in the collegiate ranks at New Mexico State under legendary head coach Lou Henson as a volunteer director of basketball operations for
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Head men’s basketball coach Rod Barnes has announced the addition of Benjy Taylor to the coaching staff of the defending 2016 WAC Tournament champion CSU Bakersfield Roadrunners. Taylor comes to CSUB following one season at Southeast Missouri State and the previous four years at Hawai’i including a stint as interim head coach during the 2014-15
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American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco announced today the hiring of Nate Pomeday, a 13-year veteran of the collegiate coaching ranks, as associate commissioner for men’s basketball. Pomeday joins the American Athletic Conference after spending the past two seasons on the University of Minnesota men’s basketball staff. Pomeday will be The American’s primary administrator and
Developing a go-to move is a crucial way in which a player can become relevant and also a continual threat on the offensive side of the floor. Oftentimes teams can focus on 1-2 players when it pertains to defensive schemes. Great coaches can combat this by putting together great offensive strategies that eliminate this issue. Although
Former Rainer Beach High School and Washington State University standout player Mike Ladd has been hired as an assistant coach at Seattle Pacific University, first-year men’s basketball head coach Grant Leep announced Thursday. Ladd, 26, has been involved with education and youth basketball coaching in the Seattle area since graduating from Washington State in 2013.
Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns men’s basketball coach Bob Marlin announced on Thursday that Josten Crow was named assistant coach after spending the 2015-16 season as Director of Student-Athlete Development. The hiring of Crow, a native of Houston, Texas, is subject to approval from the University of Louisiana Board of Supervisors. Crow was a four-year letterwinner at
