According to a report from the Commercial Appeal, Memphis head coach Penny Hardaway will hire Vanderbilt’s Faragi Phillips as an assistant coach. Phillips had been on Jerry Stackhouse’s staff at Vandy for the past three seasons – two as an assistant and one as the Director of Player Personnel. Before his time in Nashville, Phillips
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NAIA DIRT: Roosevelt U to hire D1 assistant as new Head Coach
Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) I have heard through multiple sources that NAIA Roosevelt University (IL) intends to hire UIC assistant Dee Brown as their new head coach. Brown, a former standout at Illinois and 2005 Sporting News National Player of the Year, has been on the UIC staff since 2017. Following a long career playing professionally, Brown
JUCO DIRT: Des Moines Area CC set to open as Putz takes D1 job
Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) I teased this one late last week on Twitter…I can now confirm that Des Moines Area CC head coach Brett Putz has departed and will become the Special Assistant to the Head Coach at Indiana State. Putz had been the head coach at DMACC for the past two years, where he
Paige McCormick added to St. Lawrence Men’s Basketball Staff
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An offer has been extended by head coach Chris Downs and accepted by Paige McCormick, who is set to join the St. Lawrence University men’s basketball coaching staff as a graduate assistant coach in August 2022. “We’re hiring by far the best candidate in the pool,” said Downs. “She’s a Division I scholarship player, who was a
Hutton named Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach at Iowa Wesleyan
Iowa Wesleyan University has recently announced Colden Hutton as the new Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach. Prior to Iowa Wesleyan, Coach Hutton served as the assistant men’s basketball coach at Lake Region State College in Devils Lake, North Dakota. He provided the head coach with both in-game and in-practice adjustments. Hutton also created the scouting reports
Drill of The Week
Between other sports/extracurriculars, vacations, and packed schedules, it can really tough getting a group of teammates or friends together to train and work on your game in the summer. Luckily, Dr. Dish has an extensive library of individual drills that you can do solo and still improve this offseason! 1.) Pick & Roll Progression w/ Skylar Diggins-Smith
Capps promoted to Head Basketball Coach at Goshen College
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After conducting a national search, Kyle Capps has been named Goshen College’s 16th head men’s basketball coach, announced Director of Athletics Dr. Erica Albertin. A 2014 graduate of Goshen, Capps has served on the Maple Leafs’ men’s basketball staff from 2016-17 and 2020-22 as an assistant and then associate coach. “Coach Capps brings an incredible passion for Goshen College and our basketball
Former Mizzou star Pressey joins Tigers staff as Graduate Assistant
One of the most well-regarded Mizzou basketball players in the recent era, Tiger legend Phil Pressey is set to return to Columbia this upcoming season as a member of the Mizzou basketball staff. Pressey will serve as a graduate assistant on the Mizzou men’s basketball coaching staff. Pressey was a 2013 AP Honorable Mention
Tulsa Basketball adds Phillips as Director of Creative Content and Branding
The University of Tulsa men’s basketball head coach Eric Konkol announced the appointment of Simeon Phillips as the director of creative content and branding for the Golden Hurricane, completing Konkol’s fulltime staff. “Simeon was a college football player and has been trained in graphic design,” Konkol said. “He’s very creative, but he also knows what athletics is all
Jones College names Clarence Weatherspoon as Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach
A former Southern Miss and NBA basketball standout is reuniting with his former college teammate. Clarence Weatherspoon has been hired as an assistant coach at Jones College. The move was announced on June 24 by Bobcat head coach Newton Mealer, who was a teammate of Weatherspoon from 1989-92. The announcement comes 30 years to the day that
Matt Fraschilla named Assistant Basketball Coach at Harvard
Tommy Amaker, The Thomas G. Stemberg ’71 Family Endowed Coach for Harvard Men’s Basketball, has announced the hiring of Matt Fraschilla ’17 as the program’s new assistant coach. The former Crimson letterwinner replaces Brian Eskildsen, who recently joined the Georgia Tech men’s basketball staff. “We are thrilled to welcome Matt back to Harvard,” Amaker said. “Matt
Daily Dirt – 6/24/22
Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) Catching-up on a bunch of things… I have heard that new San Diego head coach Steve Lavin will add Ryan Devlin to his staff as an assistant coach. Devlin had spent the past three seasons on the staff at George Washington, and was not retained when Jamion Christian was let go