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OFFICIAL: John Pelphrey Joins Avery Johnson’s Staff at Alabama
HoopDirt.com mentioned this one earlier in the week – it’s now official… Head coach Avery Johnson announced on Wednesday the hiring of John Pelphrey as the associate head men’s basketball coach at The University of Alabama. Pelphrey, who brings more than 20 years of assistant and head coaching experience to the Tide, will replace former assistant coach Scott Pospichal. The
REPORT: Memphis Targeting Texas Tech’s Tubby Smith
According to a report by USA Today Memphis has had “significant contact with Texas Tech basketball coach Tubby Smith and could be targeting him to replace Josh Pastner.” This past season, Smith led Texas Tech to a 19-13 record, and earned the Big 12 Coach of the Year and Sporting News National Coach of the Year awards. In addition to
Pitt Adds Georgetown’s Kevin Sutton to Basketball Staff
University of Pittsburgh head coach Kevin Stallings announced the addition of Kevin Sutton to his staff Wednesday afternoon. Sutton joins Tom Richardson and Jeremy Ballard as an assistant coach for the Panthers after spending the previous three seasons at Georgetown. “I got to know Kevin in 2007-08 when we were recruiting one of his players out of Montverde Academy,” said Stallings.
Kevin Kruger Named Assistant Basketball Coach at Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma head men’s basketball coach Lon Kruger announced Wednesday the hiring of Kevin Kruger as assistant coach. The son of Lon Kruger, Kevin returns to Norman after spending the past two seasons as an assistant coach for Northern Arizona University. Prior to NAU, he spent the 2013-14 campaign serving as a graduate assistant for the
Daily Dirt – 4/13/16
Today’s dirt… Yesterday, we posted an assistant job that was open at Sam Houston State. I have now learned it’s open because Omar Lowery will be departing to join the staff at Milwaukee. He is a Wisconsin native who graduated from Concordia (WI). Lowery has also been a DI assistant at San Jose State, Cal Poly, and
OFFICIAL: Ross Hodge Named Associate Head Coach at Arkansas State
Ross Hodge, recognized as a top recruiter by multiple publications, has been named the associate head coach for Arkansas State men’s basketball, head coach Grant McCasland announced today. “Ross Hodge is a flat-out winner in every way,” said McCasland. “He’s set records and won with integrity everywhere he has been whether as an assistant or
BREAKING: Brian Kennedy Named Head Basketball Coach at NJIT
Brian Kennedy, who has been an assistant men’s basketball coach at NJIT since August 2012, will be introduced as the 11th head men’s basketball coach in program history in a Friday, August 15 news conference on campus. Coach Kennedy, whose involvement with the sport of basketball literally covers his entire life, is the son of
NC State Assistant Bobby Lutz Transitions to Administrative Role
So much for the Bobby Lutz to Georgia Tech rumors from earlier today. Lutz will be moving on (presumably to clear space for Joe Dooley), but will remain at NC State in a different position within the athletic department. He has assumed the new role of Special Assistant to the Deputy Athletic Director for External Operations,
DII DIRT: Segler to be Named Head Coach at Eastern New Mexico
Midwestern State assistant coach Tres Segler will be named as the next head coach at Eastern New Mexico University. Great sources have had HoopDirt.com in front of this one the entire time as we had the final three candidates posted yesterday (ENMU Dirt), and the larger group of initial interviews a few weeks ago (Daily Dirt II –
Cornell Dirt…
I have heard from a great source that on-campus interviews are underway at Cornell in the search to replace Bill Courtney. The three names that I have heard here are: Billy Taylor (assistant coach Iowa / former head coach Ball State and Lehigh), Brian Earl (associate head coach Princeton), and Tom Billeter (head coach Augustana /
REPORT: Bobby Lutz to Join Josh Pastner’s Staff at Georgia Tech
The question many have been asking today…if Joe Dooley is heading to NC State, whose spot is he taking? It is now being reported Wolfpack associate head coach Bobby Lutz will be headed to Georgia Tech where he will assume a similar role on Josh Pastner’s new staff. Lutz has spent the past five seasons