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OFFICIAL: NC State Names Heath Schroyer as Assistant Head Basketball Coach

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NC State rounded out its men’s basketball staff with the hire of veteran coach Heath Schroyer, who spent the last two years as head coach of the University of Tennessee-Martin, Mark Gottfried announced today. “I’m excited to have Heath join our staff. He has done an outstanding job at UT-Martin, and has had success as both a

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Chad Dollar Named Assistant Basketball Coach at Illinois State

Chad Dollar, a 19-year Division I men’s basketball coaching veteran who most recently spent five seasons on the staff at Georgia Tech, has been hired as an assistant coach at Illinois State, head coach Dan Muller announced Thursday. “We couldn’t be more excited to add Chad and his family to our program,” Muller said. “He provides experience,

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BREAKING: Heath Schroyer to NC State

Thanks to great sources who had HoopDirt.com out in front of this one earlier this week.  We reported on Tuesday that Tennessee Martin Head Coach Heath Schroyer was offered an assistant spot at NC State. Today, he has resigned at UTM in order to accept the position. In his two seasons at UTM, Schroyer has put

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REPORT: Michigan Assistant Bacari Alexander to be named Head Coach at Detroit

According to an ESPN report, Detroit will hire Michigan assistant Bacari Alexander as their new head basketball coach.  An 11:00am press conference has been scheduled for Friday to make the announcement.  Alexander was one of four finalists to replace Ray McCallum that HoopDirt.com mentioned on April 18th (Detroit Search Update). A Detroit native, Alexander played his

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Utica Search Update…

I have heard that the search for a new head coach at DIII Utica College has wrapped up, and the announcement could be made in the next day or two. I have heard from multiple sources that the final four candidates were: Sean Burton – Assistant Coach Ithaca College Sean Coffey – Assistant Coach St. John

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Why Global Sports Academy?

  Since 1991, Global Sports Academy (GSA) has been arranging tours for college and youth teams from the United States and countries around the world to promote international competition and goodwill. Not only do athletes learn valuable lessons through participating in their respective sports in other countries, but they also enjoy the experiences of a

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Dixon Announces Hiring of Patrick

TCU men’s basketball coach Jamie Dixon announced the hiring of David Patrick Wednesday afternoon. Patrick comes to Fort Worth following a successful tenure at LSU where he helped the Tigers land the nation’s No. 5 and No. 3 ranked recruiting classes in 2013 and 2015, respectively. LSU’s most recent class in 2015 included national prep

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Kirby to Return to LSU as Associate Head Coach

LSU men’s basketball head coach Johnny Jones announced on Wednesday that longtime coach Robert Kirby will return to the staff assuming the associate head coach position. Kirby, who was a member of Coach Jones’ first LSU coaching staff as assistant coach in 2012-13, has served the past three years on the staff as assistant head

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Green Bay Announces Contract Extension for Linc Darner

Green Bay Director of Athletics Mary Ellen Gillespie announced today that the contract of men’s basketball head coach Linc Darnerhas been extended two years through the 2021-22 season. Darner, who recently completed his first season for the Phoenix, led his team to its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 20 years after winning the 2016 Horizon League

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Vance-Granville Community College Names DeMarcus Oliver Head Basketball Coach

Vance-Granville Community College has named DeMarcus Oliver as the new head coach of the Vanguards men’s basketball team. Oliver (pictured above) served as assistant coach, and later interim head coach, for VGCC during the 2015-2016 season. He will lead VGCC’s program into its ninth season of play in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA)

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Sean Stochl Named Harper College Men’s Basketball Coach

The Harper College men’s basketball program will be under new direction after Justin Welke tendered his resignation last week. Sean Stochl has been named the head coach of the Hawks. “Sean is an excellent fit for our program. Not only is he a product of Harper College, but he has been serving as a member of the

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Starting 5 – Out of Bounds

HoopDirt.com’s Starting Five Presented by FastModel Sports FastModel Sports® is the creator of FastDraw® & FastScout®, the best play diagramming and report building software in basketball. FastDraw is used by all U.S. professional teams, 85% of college teams, and 6,000+ high school and youth teams. Learn more about FastDraw here. By: Greg Youncofski / HoopDirt.com Contributor Executing on your SLOBs/BLOBs is

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