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Connecticut College Hires Two

Connecticut College men’s basketball Head Coach Tom Satran has hired Shawn Hallahan and Mike McSloy, two new assistant coaches for 2013-14. Hallahan is a 2011 graduate of Pennsylvania State University-Altoona. He completed a Master’s Degree in Athletic Administration from Springfield College in 2013. As a graduate assistant coach at Springfield from 2011 through 2013, Hallahan

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WPI Hires Assistant

WPI Men’s Basketball coach Chris Bartley recently announced that Ryan Flynn ’06 has joined his coaching staff as the top assistant. Flynn replaces Rob Southall who served on the Engineer bench for the past eight years and was named as the head coach at Elms last month. Flynn returns to WPI after serving as the

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BREAKING: HoopDirt Announces Guest Blogger Series

We are happy to announce the creation of our “GUEST BLOGGER SERIES!" Our mission here at HoopDirt and WHoopDirt has always been to help coaches. In the off-season, we are able to provide rumors, news, job info to our readers – that typically quiets down once the season starts though. As coaches, we are always

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Mount Ida College Hires Assistants

The Mount Ida College men’s basketball team, under the direction of first year Head Coach Ben Davis, is excited to announce the three assistant coaches that will work with the Mustangs during the upcoming season. Two of these coaches, Kevin Seetal and Brian Cerone, are new to the program, while Jaykyri Simpson will return for

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Hartford staff update

John Gallagher, head coach of the University of Hartford men’s basketball team, has made two changes to his coaching staff. Gallagher has promoted Chris Gerlufsen to associate head coach while newcomer Tom Devitt has been added to the staff as the director of operations. Entering his eighth season as a member of the coaching staff

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Davis Earns One-Year Contract Extension

Central Michigan Director of Athletics Dave Heeke announced on Monday that men’s basketball head coach Keno Davis has signed a one-year extension. Davis’ contract will now run through the 2017-18 season. Financial details of the contact remain the same. “Extending Keno’s contract was important as we continue to build on stability that he and his

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McGreal promoted to associate head coach @ LaGrange

David McGreal has been promoted to the position of Men’s Basketball Associate Head Coach. McGreal has been on the coaching staff since head coach Kendal Wallace arrived in 2011. "This is a well-deserved and certainly earned promotion. David is a tireless worker and an exceptional recruiter," Wallace said. "He is capable of managing his own

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Cooper Named Interim Head Coach @ Keystone

– Brad Cooper has been named Keystone College’s Interim Head Men’s Basketball Coach according to an announcement made by Director of Athletics, Dr. Matthew Grimaldi on Wednesday. Cooper spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at Keystone under Nevada Smith who resigned earlier this week to take a the head coaching position with

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Weir named video coordinator at Iona

Iona College men’s basketball head coach Tim Cluess announced the addition of John Weir to the Gaels’ coaching staff. Weir will serve as video coordinator during the upcoming season. Weir’s most recent experience came as assistant coach at his alma mater Rhode Island College under head coach Bobby Walsh. During the 2009-10 season, Weir was

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Daily Dirt – 10/22/13

Practice is in full swing, but there is still movement out there. A few things that I’ve heard… • George Washington assistant Pete Strickland has left the staff. Apparently he has cited personal reasons for the decision. He had been at GW since 2011, and was an assistant at NC State before that. He also

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HOT: Santa Clara’s Keating receives extension

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

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