Santa Clara University announced that head men’s basketball coach Kerry Keating has been given a multi-year contract extension. In addition to winning 24 games and the CIT in 2011 and 26 games and the CBI title in 2013, the Keating-led Broncos are one of just two teams nationally to finish with a post-season tournament win
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Daily Dirt – 10/15/13
October 15th is finally here! For all of the non-DI’s, here we go…. Still some movement on the coaching front – here are a few things that I heard this weekend…. • Elms College (MA) has named WPI assistant Rob Southall as their new head coach. Southall has been on the WPI staff for eight
Murphy named DBO at Louisiana Lafayette
Michael Murphy, a 25-year veteran at the collegiate coaching level, has been named as the director of basketball operations for the Ragin’ Cajuns men’s basketball program, head coach Bob Marlin announced on Thursday. The hiring of Murphy is subject to approval from the University of Louisiana Board of Supervisors. "I’ve known Mike for 18 years
Piper Rounds Out Staff
Tenth-year Nicholls head men’s basketball coach J.P. Piper has rounded out his coaching staff heading into the new season, announcing the hires of Darren Kohne and Liam Tribe-Simmons as assistant coaches for the 2013-14 year. With over a dozen years of coaching experience, Kohne joins the Colonels after spending last season with the Sioux Falls
Felician College Staff Update
Mike McClendon of Mahwah has been named an assistant men’s basketball coach at Felician College, Felician head coach David DeFerrari announced today. DeFerrari also released the hiring of Cornell Hunt of Fairfield as the program’s strength and conditioning coach. McClendon and Hunt join associate head coach Ivan Lewis on DeFerrari’s 2013-14 staff. McClendon owns more
Braswell added to UTEP staff
Bobby Braswell, who served as the head coach at Cal State Northridge for nearly two decades, has been named to the UTEP basketball staff. Braswell will serve as Director of Basketball Operations. "We’re fortunate to hire someone with Bobby’s knowledge and experience in the game," UTEP coach Tim Floyd said. "I think his accomplishments were
HOT: Extension for IPFW’s Jasick
IPFW Interim Director of Athletics Kelley Hartley Hutton has announced that IPFW has signed head men’s basketball coach Tony Jasick to a contract extension through the 2017-18 season. Jasick, originally hired as head coach on April 20, 2011, has the most wins in the first two seasons of being head coach in IPFW’s Division I
Hampden-Sydney staff update
Hampden-Sydney Basketball Head Coach Dee Vick announced the additions of Kyle Dobyns, Yorel Hawkins, and Mike Edwards ’07 to the coaching staff. Coach Dobyns comes to H-SC from Charleston Southern University where he most recently served as the Director of Basketball Operations for the Buccaneers men’s basketball team. CSU won it’s first regular season championship
Carlson resigns at UC San Diego
Longtime UC San Diego men’s basketball assistant coach Eric Olen has been named the program’s new head coach. The announcement was made Tuesday by Director of Athletics Earl W. Edwards. The 12th head coach in the history of UCSD basketball, Olen has spent the last nine seasons as an assistant with the Tritons. He replaces
Butler added to Shaw staff
Shaw University announced Friday that they have added Darryl Butler as an assistant coach for their men’s basketball team. Butler comes to Shaw from Virginia State where he served for two years as an assistant coach. Prior to that, he worked at Frederick County (Md.) and Montgomery County (Md.) Community Colleges. "Darryl brings a lot
Lehigh Staff Update
Lehigh head men’s basketball coach Brett Reed announced two additions to the coaching staff on Tuesday, Rob Fusaro as Director of Basketball Operations and Jimmy Bradshaw as Graduate Manager. Both have been part of the program for the last several months, serving various capacities. Fusaro takes over as Director of Operations after Joe Knight accepted
Daily Dirt – 9/27/13
The first day of DI practices are here! If you are not aware (all of you non DI guys out there), the NCAA adopted new legislation in May that allows DI men’s basketball teams to conduct 30 days of practice in the six weeks before their first regular-season game. There is still a lot going