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Thanks to great sources who had HoopDirt.com out in front of this one first yesterday. It’s now been made official, A.W. Hamilton has accepted an Aasistant coach position at N.C. State. Hamilton has served as Head Coach of the Hargrave Military Academy basketball program since 2011, after serving as the assistant coach at Hargrave for
Greg McDermott has confirmed that he will remain head men’s basketball coach at Creighton University, he announced on Thursday, June 8. He had reportedly been offered the job at Ohio State which opened up earlier this week when Thad Matta was fired. The second-winningest coach in Creighton history with a 166-82 record in the past
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Akron Zips head men’s basketball coach John Groce officially announced the coaching staff for the 2017-18 season on Wednesday. Joining Groce at the helm are Associate Head Coach Dustin Ford, Assistant Coach Rob Fulford, Assistant Coach Robby Pridgen, and Director of Basketball Operations Cole Pittis. “Our goal was to put together one of the best
New Portland State Men’s Basketball Coach Barret Peery has completed his coaching staff for his first season on the Park Blocks. Peery has retained assistant coaches Jase Coburn and Chris Skinkis, while adding Kahil Fennell to the staff. “I couldn’t be more excited about how the staff has come together,” said Peery. “I really feel
Boise State men’s basketball head coach Leon Rice announced Wednesday, the hiring of Chris Acker as an assistant coach. Acker spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at Hawai’i. Acker rounds out the Broncos’ 2017-18 coaching staff. “I am excited to have Chris and his family as a part of Bronco Basketball,” said
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Midland College reached out to a very familiar person when they named their new head coach. Pat Rafferty, who served previously at MC from 1994-1999, was tabbed as the new head coach on Wednesday, June 7, 2017, replacing Jordan Dreiling at the helm of the Chaps. Dreiling resigned the position in late March. In Rafferty
David Carter, assistant basketball coach at St. Mary’s College, has been named assistant coach at the University of Georgia according to an announcement Wednesday by UGA head coach Mark Fox. When Fox was head coach at Nevada, Carter was his associate head coach for five seasons. Carter was promoted to the Wolf Pack’s head coach
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Hinds Community College has announced the hiring of Yusef Fitzgerald as head coach of the Hinds Bulldogs men’s basketball team for the 2017-18 season. A press conference was held, 10 a.m. Wednesday at Mayo Gymnasium on the Raymond Campus to announce the hire. Fitzgerald arrives at Hinds from Iona College, in New Rochelle, N.Y., where
Multiple sources have told me that Hargrave Military Academy head basketball coach A.W. Hamilton will become an assistant coach at NC State. Hamilton spent five years as an assistant at Hargrave working under current NC State head coach Kevin Keatts before taking over in 2011 (when Keatts departed for Louisville). In his six seasons as
Jason Laatsch, a five-year member of the University of West Florida men’s basketball team and the program’s all-time three-point scoring leader, has been added to the UWF men’s basketball staff as a graduate assistant, as announced by head coach Jeff Burkhamer. “Jason gives us a guy that has lived in the program,” said Burkhamer. “He
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Seward County Head Coach Jason Sautter signed a star recruit to help his 2017-2018 Saints squad on Monday, but it wasn’t one that will be wearing a uniform for the upcoming season, it comes with former Texas Tech Red Raider Luke Adams who joins Sautter’s bench as an Assistant Coach. Adams spent the past two
Lakeland University has hired former Muskies standout player Kurt Jansen to fill the role of lead assistant men’s basketball coach. Jansen recently completed a one-year stint as lead assistant coach for Williston State College, a junior college in Williston, N.D., where he coached under former Muskie player Rylee Hernandez. Prior to that, Jansen, served as
