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JR Blount Promoted to Assistant Coach at Drake

JR Blount has been promoted to assistant men’s basketball coach at Drake University, head coach Ray Giacoletti announced. Blount has served as the program’s director of basketball operations the previous two seasons. “JR is a guy that has recruiting experience and tremendous energy,” Giacoletti said. “We’re thrilled to give him this opportunity and get him

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Joe Dooley Signs Extension, Receives Raise at FGCU

Coming off another successful season, FGCU head men’s basketball coach Joe Dooley has signed a two-year contraction extension and received a raise to remain with the Eagles through the 2019-20 season. In his three seasons with FGCU, Dooley has guided the Eagles to more than 20 wins each year, an Atlantic Sun Tournament Championship, A-Sun Regular-Season Championship,

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McCasland adds Jareem Dowling to Arkansas State Staff

Arkansas State men’s basketball coach Grant McCasland has announced the hiring of Jareem Dowling as an assistant coach for the Red Wolves program. “Jareem has a tremendous energy and passion for coaching, recruiting and mentoring young men,” said McCasland. “His vast experience internationally and at multiple levels here in the U.S. will be an invaluable

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Daily Dirt – 5/6/16

Here are a bunch of things that I’ve heard… On Wednesday, I mentioned that Rider associate head coach Mike Witcoskie would be joining Donyell Marshall’s staff at Central Connecticut (Daily Dirt – 5/4/16). I have now also heard that Marshall will hire Lamar assistant Anthony Anderson and retain current CCSU assistant Obie Nwadike.  Anderson has also

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Tavares Hardy Named Assistant Coach at Georgia Tech

Tavaras Hardy, a Division I assistant coach for 10 years at Georgetown and Northwestern, has joined the Georgia Tech staff as an assistant coach, Yellow Jackets head coach Josh Pastner announced. Hardy, a former All-Big Ten player and assistant coach at Northwestern, comes to Atlanta following a three-year stint on the staff of John Thompson

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Steve Smiley Named Associate Head Coach at Northern Colorado

Men’s Basketball Head Coach Jeff Linder wasted little time in filling his top assistant role. Linder announced that Steve Smiley will be UNC’s Associate Head Coach. Smiley, a fellow Colorado native comes to the Bears from Weber State, where he served under Wildcats Head Coach, Randy Rahe for two seasons. “Coach Smiley is someone I have ties

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Kris Babler Named Head Basketball Coach at Minnesota West Community & Technical College

Minnesota West Community & Technical College has announced that Kris Babler has been hired as the new head Men’s Bluejay Basketball Coach. Most recently on the court, Babler was head coach for the 2014-15 season at Rainy River Community College, leading a 17-win season which was a 14-win improvement. Babler also increased team GPA a full

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OFFICIAL: Menzies Announces Staff at UNLV

Following up on a report from earlier today…UNLV men’s basketball head coach Marvin Menzies announced his coaching staff on Thursday. Andre LaFleur, Rob Jeter and Eric Brown have all been hired as assistant coaches for the Runnin’ Rebels. “After a very thorough process, I am extremely pleased with the staff that we were able to put together,”

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OFFICIAL: Agel Named Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach at Columbia

Columbia head men’s basketball coach Jim Engles has hired Jesse Agel as assistant coach. Agel, a New York City native and graduate of Stuyvesant High School, spent the last three seasons at NJIT on Engle’s staff and was the head coach of Brown University from 2008-12. “I’m thrilled to be bringing Jesse aboard here,” said

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“The Dish” sponsored by Dr. Dish: Step Out of Your Comfort Zone!

“If you want something you’ve never had, you must do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson This is a powerful quote that some of you may have used with your players, but how many of us coaches have taken this advice ourselves? These are extremely compelling words. They tell us we must step out of our comfort

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UNLV Staff Update

According to a report in the Las Vegas Sun, new UNLV head coach Marvin Menzies will add former Milwaukee head coach Rob Jeter, and Long Beach State assistant Eric Brown to his staff.  They will join Andre LaFleur who has been on the job for the past few weeks. Jeter had been the head coach

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Georgia Tech Staff Update

Georgia Tech head coach Josh Pastner has added Darryl LaBarrie and Eric Reveno to his staff. Darryl LaBarrie Darryl LaBarrie, a former Georgia Tech assistant coach and player with deep Atlanta roots, is returning to his alma mater’s basketball staff as an assistant coach. LaBarrie concluded a successful five-year stint on the staff at Georgia

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