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Staff Changes at Auburn

The Auburn men’s basketball staff will have a different look under second-year head coach Bruce Pearl in 2015-16 as assistant coach Tony Jones has resigned to pursue other coaching opportunities, while current assistant coach Chuck Person, and staff members Todd Golden and Steven Pearl have each been promoted. One of the greatest players in Auburn

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Collins Named Head Coach at St. Louis CC

Terry Collins has been named as the new head coach at St. Louis Community College. Collins comes to the Archers with more than 30 years of coaching experience, including four different head coaching tenures. He began his head coaching tenure at Belleville Area College’s Granite City campus in 1984, after a one-year stint as an

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DIII DIRT: Louisiana College Set to Name New Coach

HoopDirt.com can confirm that Louisiana College will name their new head coach today at a 1:00pm press conference.  I have heard from multiple sources that the choice will be local high school coach Reni Mason.  He will replace Gene Rushing who last month after 29 seasons at the helm.  Mason has spent the past seven

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Bubba Wells Named Assistant at SIUE

SIUE men’s basketball Head Coach Jon Harris has announced the addition of Ohio Valley Conference great and former NBA player Charles “Bubba” Wells to the coaching staff. Wells comes to SIUE after spending the last 10 seasons on the staff at his alma mater, Austin Peay, where he is the all-time leading scorer with 2,267

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Daily Dirt- 5/29/15

Here are some things that I’ve heard as we head in to the last weekend in May… Pretty cool story coming out of Illinois State.  Director of Basketball Operations Mitch Gilfillan has resigned, and will take a job as an attorney at a local law firm.  The former Ball State and SIUE assistant graduated from

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DII DIRT: St. Leo (FL) Finalists

The search to replace Lance Randall at St. Leo (FL) is moving along quickly.  Randall was named as the head coach at Lindenwood University (MO) back on May 11th.  It sounds like there are at least three in the final group – the names that I’ve heard are: Mark Downey – Former assistant Bowling Green. 

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Bill Foster -Former Head Coach at Clemson, Miami and Virginia Tech Passes Away

Bill Foster, 79, who guided Clemson to the Elite Eight of the 1980 NCAA Tournament in the school’s first invitation, passed away on Wednesday afternoon in Charlotte, N.C., after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. The native of Hemingway, S.C., is the only coach to serve as the head coach of three current Atlantic Coast

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Daily Dirt – 5/28/15

Today’s Daily Dirt… It sounds like former Iona head coach Jeff Ruland is in the mix for a spot on Jimmy Patsos’ staff at Siena.  Ruland was the head coach at his alma mater Iona from 1998-2007 (139-135), and spent 2009-2013 as the head coach at the University of District Columbia (40-61). He was the

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OFFICIAL: Matt McMahon Added to Louisiana Tech Staff

HoopDirt.com first reported this morning that Murray State assistant Matt McMahon would be hired by new head coach Eric Konkol at Louisiana Tech.  The move was made official this afternoon – McMahon has been named as the new associate head coach for the Bulldogs. The announcement comes one day after Konkol added the first piece

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Mike Newell Named Head Coach at Dillard University

The Dillard University Department of Athletics announced that Mike Newell has been named Bleu Devils head men’s basketball coach. Newell takes over a struggling men’s program that produced only two road wins and a total of 15 wins in the last four years. “I believe Coach Newell’s experience will help take our program to another

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Thunder Dan Majerle Receives Extension at Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon University’s rise in NCAA Division I athletics was further entrenched Wednesday with three major announcements surrounding the program. Men’s basketball coach Dan Majerle and baseball coach Andy Stankiewicz each received new four-year contracts, while the university also signed a five-year deal with apparel and footwear giant Nike. “We want to be a top-25

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Cal Poly DBO Lowe Retires

Bob Lowe, the Cal Poly men’s basketball program’s director of operations for the past two seasons, has announced his retirement after 30 years on the collegiate sideline. A replacement to fill Cal Poly’s director of operations position has not yet been named. During his two seasons as Cal Poly’s director of operations, Lowe was integral to

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