DAILY DIRT – 4/18/24

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) Headed out of Charlotte today – next stop Montreal. Should be interesting… Trying to catch-up on a few quick things that I’ve heard: Nelson Terroba will join Rob Lanier’s new staff at Rice as an assistant. The Texas native has most recently been the head coach of the Head Coach Calgary

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Faulkner elevated to Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Youngstown State

Ethan Faulkner helped orchestrate Youngstown State University’s best five-year stretch of men’s basketball at the Division I level, and he will now take charge of the program as it looks to continue its upward trend as one of the region’s top mid-major programs. YSU Executive Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Ron Strollo announced Faulkner’s promotion from associate

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OFFICIAL: Nagy named Head Basketball Coach at Southern Illinois

Following-up on yesterday’s report…Wright State’s Scott Nagy has officially taken over as the head coach at Southern Illinois. Here’s the statement that SIU has released announcing the hiring: Southern Illinois University Carbondale has named Scott Nagy the 15th men’s basketball head coach in the program’s history. With nearly three decades of head coaching experience at Wright

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LIVE STREAM LINKS: 2023 Griffin Elite Basketball Classic

Here are the live stream links to the 2023 Griffin Elite Basketball games, which start today: IMG Academy vs Elder High School – Friday 7pm – WATCH HERE Newport High School vs Huntington Prep – Friday 9pm – WATCH HERE Harlan County vs Desales High School – Saturday 5pm – WATCH HERE IMG Academy vs

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Daily Dirt – 8/4/23

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) A few things to wrap-up the first week of August… I have heard that Northern Kentucky has hired Isaac Wodajo – most likely as the Special Assistant to the Head Coach. Wodajo spent last season as the head coach at Wabash Valley College. He also served as a graduate assistant at

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Duquesne Basketball Staff Update

Duquesne University head coach Keith Dambrot announced today that Steve Wright and Ari Stern have joined the men’s basketball staff as assistant coaches. Wright comes to DU after spending the past three seasons as an assistant coach at Bowling Green, while Stern, who served on Dambrot’s staff for three seasons from 2019-00 through 2001-02, returns after spending

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OFFICIAL: Darner named Head Basketball Coach at Tampa

Following up on something that I mentioned a few times last week (DAILY DIRT). Linc Darner has officially been named as the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Tampa. Here’s the release from the school: The University of Tampa has announced the hiring of Linc Darner as its head men’s basketball coach. Darner brings a resume that

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Daily Dirt – 3/30/23

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) I have heard that new Northwestern State head coach Rick Cabrera will hire Hayden Harkins as an assistant coach, and Chad Bailey as the DBO. They were both on his staff last season at Tallahassee CC. Harkins has also worked as an assistant at Pearl River CC, and was a GA

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DAILY DIRT: Saturday Edition – 3/11/23

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) It’s obviously been crazy over the past few days. Just going through my notes to catch-up on a bunch of things… A couple of names making the rounds at Manhattan include Kentucky associate to the head coach Bruiser Flint and Rutgers associate head coach Karl Hobbs. Flint has also been the

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OFFICIAL: Wodajo named Head Basketball Coach at Wabash Valley

Back on October 5th, I mentioned that there has been a coaching change at NJCAA Wabash Valley College (JUCO DIRT). WVC has now made it official and named Isaac Wodajo as their new head coach. Here is the official release from the college: Wabash Valley College Athletics and Warriors Basketball are proud to announce that

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John Brannen joins Dayton Basketball Staff

University of Dayton men’s basketball coach Anthony Grant has announced the addition of former Division I head coach John Brannen to the UD staff.   Brannen, who has 21 years of college coaching experience, will fill the new role of Program Analyst and Senior Special Assistant.  In this position, he will oversee the Flyer program’s efforts in

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