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Following a highly successful coaching career in the high school ranks, Aubin Goporo has joined Rick Barnes’ full-time Tennessee basketball staff as Director of Player Development. His duties with the Vols include serving as a program liaison to the Thornton Athletics Student Life Center, coordinating community outreach and service efforts and serving as a student-athlete
The University of South Carolina Salkehatchie announced that Jake Williams has been named the new head coach of the Indians men’s basketball team. Coach Williams was most recently an Assistant Coach at North Florida State College in Niceville, Florida and prior to that was director of basketball operations at North Carolina Central University. Originally from
Maryville University head men’s basketball coach Marc Stricker announced the hiring of Mike Brown as an assistant coach for the Saints. Brown comes to Maryville University after serving two seasons as the head coach at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago. “We are excited to add Mike to our basketball program and Saints Nation,” Stricker
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Centenary College Director of Athletics and Recreation, Dr. Bob Bunnell announced that Chris Dorsey has been named the 22nd head coach in the 93-year history of Gents basketball. “After a competitive national search, we are excited to welcome Chris to the Centenary College athletic community,” said Dr. Bunnell. “We were impressed by his enthusiasm throughout
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University of North Dakota athletics director Brian Faison announced Thursday that head men’s basketball coach Brian Jones has signed a contract extension that runs through the 2020-21 season. With the extension, the Rock Island, Ill., native is set to embark on his 12th season as UND’s head coach in 2017-18. This past season, Jones led
I have heard from great sources that NAIA DI Wiley College (TX) will name Jay Smith as their new head basketball coach. Smith has been an assistant at NAIA powerhouse, and fellow Red River Athletic Conference member LSU Alexandria since the program’s inaugural season in 2014. During his three years at LSU-A, the Generals have
Director of Athletics Lynne Robinson announced today that Mount St. Mary’s University has signed men’s basketball coach Jamion Christian to a multi-year contract extension. Christian, who has led the Mount to the NCAA Tournament twice in five years as head coach, is now signed through the 2026-27 season. “Since Jamion’s return to the Mount five
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Following up on something that I mentioned in the Daily Dirt on 6/16/17. It’s now been made official, Florida International Head Coach Anthony Evans announced that Jarrett T. Lockhart has been promoted to assistant coach, effective July 1. He replaces Eric Pastrana who was named the head coach at Daytona State College in June and
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Campbell University head men’s basketball coach Kevin McGeehan has announced the promotion of Peter Thomas to Associate Head Coach, Ander Galfsky to Director of Basketball Operations, while also adding Kevin Anderson to the staff as Assistant Director of Basketball Operations. Thomas was McGeehan’s first hire when he was named head coach in April 2013. Since
University of South Carolina Aiken, in conjunction with head men’s basketball coach Mark Vanderslice, is pleased to announce the addition of Corey Hendren to the staff as an assistant coach. “We are thrilled about the addition of Corey to our program,” Vanderslice stated. “He did a terrific job as the head coach at USC Salkehatchie
Blue Mountain Community College has hired Osadonor “Osa” Esene as its new head men’s basketball coach, beginning July 1. Esene replaces Gavin Burt, who resigned in April for personal reasons. Esene is the founder and owner of Ball Out PDX, LLC, an AAU youth basketball organization in the Portland Metro area, and for the past
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HoopDirt.com first reported this move back on May 11th – it has now finally been announced officially: Grambling State University Director of Athletics Paul Bryant officially announced the hiring of, and signed, Donte’ Jackson as the next GSU head men’s basketball coach during a Wednesday morning news conference. Jackson officially signed his contract in front
