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Marquette University head men’s basketball coach Steve Wojciechowski has announced the promotion of Dwayne Killings to associate head coach. Killings recently completed his second season with the Golden Eagles, helping the program to the NCAA tournament in 2018-19 and another potential appearance in 2019-20. He has also helped the team secure a consensus nationally ranked
Congratulations to the following sixteen coaches who captured HoopDirt.com JUCO Coach of the Week Awards during the 2019-20 college basketball season. These coaches are all eligible to receive the HoopDirt.com JUCO Coach of the Year Award presented by Just Play Solutions which will be announced next week. Week 1 Kyle Cooper – Western Texas College
As we will not be able to see which teams would have risen to the top in the 2019/2020 season, Pivot Analysis would like to recognize the teams and players who excelled in various advanced or efficiency-based metrics. All of these metrics are based on how these teams performed relative to their competition in non-garbage
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University of North Florida head basketball coach Matthew Driscoll agreed in principle to a contract extension as announced by UNF Director of Athletics Lee Moon. The deal extends Driscoll from the end of his current contract in May of 2022 through May of 2025. Driscoll, who just concluded his 11th season at the helm of the UNF
Not much difference between a weekday and a weekend at this point I guess. Here are a couple of updates on D2 searches… It sounds like the search at Shaw University (NC) has wrapped up. Dominique Stephens had served as the interim head coach here following the resignation of Joel Hopkins back in October. Word
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James Madison Director of Athletics Jeff Bourne has named Mark Byington as the 11th men’s basketball head coach in program history, as announced by the school on Friday. “Mark Byington made an immediate, positive impression and quickly stood out as the best fit to lead James Madison men’s basketball,” Bourne said. “Coach Byington is very
Losing track of days already here at the HD World HQ. Here is what I believe to be Friday’s Daily Dirt… I keep hearing that Louisiana Monroe associate head coach Ryan Cross is in the mix to join Andy Kennedy at UAB. I’ve also heard Clemson director of recruiting Philip Pearson’s name mentioned here as
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Loyola Marymount University has named Stan Johnson as its new men’s basketball head coach, Athletic Director Craig Pintens announced Friday. “Stan has a tremendous vision for the future of LMU men’s basketball, and he has the distinct ability to connect with and inspire student-athletes on and off the court,” said Pintens. Johnson brings an impressive record
Andy Kennedy has been named the seventh head coach of the University of Alabama at Birmingham men’s basketball program, Director of Athletics Mark Ingram announced Friday. Pending approval by the University of Alabama System Board of Trustees, Kennedy will return to his alma mater where he is the second leading scorer in program history. A
Justin Maxwell has resigned as the head men’s basketball coach at SUNY Ulster. During his five season’s at the college, Maxwell led the Senators to an NJCAA Sweet 16 appearance, a conference championship, and won two Coach of the Year awards. Before becoming the head coach at Ulster, he was an assistant at Hilbert College,
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GREELEY, Colorado (AP) — Steve Smiley has been promoted to head men’s basketball coach at Northern Colorado, replacing Jeff Lindor, who took over at the University of Wyoming. Athletic director Darren Dunn announced the promotion Thursday night about 48 hours after naming Smiley the interim head coach following Lindor’s departure. The school plans a virtual
Andy Kennedy will be named as the new head basketball coach at UAB according to multiple sources, including AL.com. HoopDirt.com mentioned Kennedy as the leader here back on Monday. The former Ole Miss and Cincinnati head coach played for the Blazers (1987-90), and has most recently been working for the SEC network. He holds a
