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HOT: Murphy to remain at EMU

Eastern Michigan head coach Rob Murphy will remain at the school, and not take a job with the Orlando Magic. Murphy was all set to accept a job in the Magic’s scouting department – that is until he was informed that he would owe a $210,000 buyout to the school if he left. Here is

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Daily Dirt – 8/15/12

Busy day today here at the HD World Headquarters…. • From a great source…It sounds like William & Mary will hire Kevin Hogan as the director of basketball operations. He spent last season as an assistant at Tallahassee CC, and has also been an assistant at Florida A&M. He is the son of Coastal Carolina

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Illinois State promtes Ford

Illinois State men’s basketball head coach Dan Muller announced Tuesday that assistant coach Dana Ford has been named associate head coach for the Redbirds. Ford was hired on May 21, after he previously served as an assistant coach at Wichita State, Tennessee State and Chipola Junior College. He is a 2006 graduate of Illinois State

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OFFICIAL: Pfeiffer staff moves announced

Pfeiffer University has officially hired Matt Adams and Steve Enright as assistant coaches. We first blogged about this more than two weeks ago. Here’s the link to the official press release: http://gofalconsports.com/article.asp?articleID=2959… Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.

Georgian Court update

It appears as thought the search for a basketball coach at Georgian Court University (NJ) is finally over. This has been a job that we have been talking about for a while – it has been a very long, strange search. After at least four coaches turned down the job, it appears that GCU has

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Gabriel named AC @ Shepherd U.

Shepherd University head men’s basketball coach Justin Namolik announced today that Eric Gabriel has been named assistant men’s basketball coach. Gabriel replaces Casey Weitzel, who resigned to accept a similar position with Azuza Pacific. Gabriel comes to Shepherd after serving as an assistant at Mount Olive College for the past three seasons. He helped lead

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Kalamazoo names new head coach

Eric Dougal was introduced as Kalamazoo College’s head men’s basketball coach on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012. Dougal spent the last six seasons as an assistant coach at two highly competitive NCAA Division III programs, Manchester College (2006-11) and UW-Platteville (2011-12). As recruiting coordinator at Manchester, Dougal helped bring in classes that took the program to

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Strickland named assistant @ Roanoke

Michael Strickland has been named as an assistant coach at Roanoke College. He will be responsible for recruiting, scouting, player development, practice planning and other administrative duties assigned. Strickland comes to Salem from Gonzaga College High School in Washington D.C. He helped coach the Eagles to a 27-7 record and a third place finish in

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Brown names assistants

First-year Brown head men’s basketball coach Mike Martin ’04 has rounded out the Bears’ coaching staff with the addition of former Boston College star Dwayne Pina and former Williams College assistant coach Kevin Snyder. The duo join associate head coach TJ Sorrentine, now in his fifth year at Brown, to complete the Brown basketball coaching

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Belmont Abbey adds assistant

Former Georgia Bulldog forward Cleveland Jackson has been named assistant men’s basketball coach and head junior varsity coach at Belmont Abbey College. Jackson rejoins the coaching ranks after a two year absence in which he served as a family counselor and therapist for at-risk youth in Warner Robbins, Georgia. During this time, he also ran

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Mansfield Hires Assistant

Will Cabrera has been named the full-time men’s basketball assistant coach at Mansfield University. Cabrera comes to Mansfield after serving as an assistant coach at Messiah College for the past three seasons. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.

King named AC @ Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men’s basketball staff has added Yaphett King as an assistant coach, Head Coach Willis Wilson announced today. King comes to the Island University after spending the last four seasons as the head coach at Redlands Community College. King led Redlands to 72 wins in his tenure as the team’s

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