Welcome to the 2016 edition of HoopDirt’s popular Coaching Changes Tracker. Yet again, the HD staff will be tracking head coaching changes at all levels of college basketball (NCAA DI, D2, D3, NAIA and JC). See a confirmed change that’s missing from our tracker? Shoot us a note. Click below to view by level: Division
I have heard that there are three finalists for the DII University of Mary (ND) job. The job opened when Jevin Budde resigned back on February 28th. Word on the street is that on-campus interviews are now complete and a decision could be made any day. It sounds like the final three are: Matt Fletcher
In three different stops as a head coach, Ben Howland has established himself as a proven winner en route to leading his teams to the NCAA Tournament. Now, he’s been handed the task of getting Mississippi State back to the Big Dance for the first time since 2009. On Monday, MSU athletics director Scott Stricklin
The sixteen finalists have been announced for the 2015 Skip Prosser Man of the Year award. Named after the late Skip Prosser, who died suddenly in 2007 while the head coach at Wake Forest, the award is presented annually to those who not only achieve success on the basketball court but who also display moral
We are going to track the changes this season at all levels (NCAA DI, DII, DIII, NAIA, and JC) UPDATED AS CHANGES ARE CONFIRMED HoopDirt.com’s list of 2015 coaching changes: DIVISION I DIVISION II DIVISION III NAIA NJCAA
William Jewel College men’s basketball coach Larry Holley won his 850th game as a head college basketball coach last week at Saint Joseph’s College. He breaks down his current place in college basketball history: "To the best of my knowledge here is where I stood at the end of the 2012-13 season……I’d have to look
My inbox and phone are blowing up today. Here is the THIRD installment of the “dirt”… • I’ve heard from a good source that Maryland assistant Scott Spinelli is involved at Florida International. Spinelli has a ton of high major experience, including Maryland, he has been an assistant at Texas A&M, Wichita State, Nebraska, and
Here’s what I’ve heard so far today… • I have heard that former Louisville assistant Walter McCarty is on campus interviewing today at Fairleigh Dickinson. He follows NJIT’s Jim Engles who visited yesterday. McCarty played at Kentucky for Rick Pitino (won a National Championship in 1996) and spent 10 years in the NBA (New York,
The 2013 Basketball Hall of Fame class has been released by the NJCAA Men’s Basketball Coaches Association. This year’s class features three longtime NJCAA head coaches Rich Corsetto, Dave Heiss and Dennis Helms. A 20-year NJCAA coaching veteran, Rich Corsetto guided two different programs to national prominence. In 1990 he took over as head coach
Here’s an update on the Winthrop search…. It sounds like AD Tom Hickman has hired Todd Turner’s search firm to help with the process. Turner, the former AD at NC State met with Hickman earlier in the week to discuss the search. According to people close to the situation, former Wake Forest and South Carolina
Here’s a list of the DI coaching changes that have been made so far. I will update the list daily. Total changes as of 9/18/12: 46 School (Previous Coach) New Coach • Air Force – (Jeff Reynolds) – Dave Pilipovich • Binghamton – (Mark Macon) – Tommy Dempsey • Brown – (Jesse Agel) Mike Martin
Here’s today’s dirt…. I’ve heard that Cal Baptist has added Troy Johnson to its Men’s Basketball staff. Johnson has had stops at San Jose State University, Colorado State University-Pueblo, Western New Mexico and was the head coach at Merritt College in Oakland. CBU is has made the transition to NCAA DII and is a member
