Crazy day for The DirtKing – stuck in a departmental meeting all day which had nothing to do with basketball. Fortunately I still had email access, so I was able to stay up on what has been happening today – here’s what I’ve heard: • I have heard that East Mississippi CC assistant coach Billy
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Ohio Dominican University Hires Coach
Dan Evans has been hired as Ohio Dominican University’s head men’s basketball coach, athletic director Jeff Blair announced Monday. Evans will be introduced at a 3 p.m. press conference in Alumni Hall today. The 13th head coach in Ohio Dominican history, Evans joins the Panthers after spending the past six seasons as an assistant coach
Pace Hires Kennedy
Pace University Director of Athletics Mark Brown has announced that former Florida State University and Iona College Head Coach Pat Kennedy will join the Pace Athletics Department as the Head Coach for the Men’s Basketball program. Kennedy returns home to Westchester County where he started as an assistant coach with the Gaels under legendary coach
OFFICIAL: Toole extended through 2017-18 at RMU
Director of Athletics Craig Coleman, M.D., announced that Robert Morris University has extended the contract of head men’s basketball coach Andrew Toole. Toole, who originally signed a five-year deal when he was named the eighth head coach in program history in May of 2010, is now signed through the 2017-18 season. “Andy has done an
Carroll College (MT) finalists
Carroll College (MT) has narrowed the field to four candidates for their vacant men’s basketball position. The final four are: • Steve Keller – Head coach Montana Western. Has compiled a 121-73 at Montana Western and has also won six State Championships as a HS coach. Was an assistant at Carroll for three seasons before
Rohrssen returns to Pitt staff
Pitt basketball coach Jamie Dixon officially announced the appointment of Barry Rohrssen as an assistant coach on Friday evening. Rohrssen begins his duties immediately. A former Pitt assistant for seven years from 1999-2006, Rohrssen played a vital role in Pitt’s dramatic rise to prominence. During a five-year period, he helped guide Pitt to a 133-33
Truman State staff update
Truman men’s basketball assistant coaches Todd Lorensen (Iowa Wesleyan) and Matt Fitzpatrick (Alabama-Birmingham) have each accepted new positions and will be leaving the Truman program, head coach Matt Woodley announced Tuesday. Lorensen was named the head men’s basketball coach at Iowa Wesleyan College, an NCAA Division III exploratory program located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. He
Daily Dirt – 5/3/13
Today’s dirt… • It sounds like Harvard assistant Brian Adams may be headed to Marist to join new head coach Jeff Bowers staff. Before joining the Harvard staff two seasons ago, he worked as a video guy for the Celtics. It seems that he has parlayed his NBA connections to hook up with Bower (a
Wright Named Assistant at Ball State
Billy Wright, a Richmond, Ind., native with coaching experience at both the college and high school levels, has been hired as an assistant men’s basketball coach at Ball State. Wright, a former head coach at Pike High School in Indianapolis, comes to Ball State after serving most recently as the associate head coach at Western
Daily Dirt – 5/2/13
Final numbers from April are in…smashed our March total of 387,000 hits by getting almost 530,000 last month! Thanks to all of our readers for visiting us daily. We will keep working hard to get you the most up-to-date coaching info that is out there. Also, we have some big changes on the horizon –
OFFICIAL: Davidson joins N. Colorado staff
I mentioned last month that Casper College (WY) head coach Joel Davidson was going to join the staff at Northern Colorado – it is now official… Northern Colorado men’s basketball coach B.J. Hill has announced that Joel Davidson will be joining his staff after an illustrious and successful coaching career at the junior college level.
HOT: Extension for Toole at Robert Morris
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that Andy Toole has received a three-year contract extension at Robert Morris. Toole is 68-36 in his three seasons at RMU – his squad knocked off Kentucky in the first round of this years NIT. No terms of the contract have been made public. The official announcement from Robert Morris