Cliff Ellis

OFFICIAL: Coastal Carolina’s Ellis announces retirement

Mentioned this earlier today – it’s now official. Here’s the statement from Coastal Carolina: Cliff Ellis, the winningest active coach in NCAA Division I basketball, has announced his retirement as the Coastal Carolina University men’s basketball coach. Ellis completed his coaching career Monday night with a victory over St. Andrews, his 831st at the NCAA Division

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REPORT: Coastal Carolina’s Cliff Ellis to retire

Coastal Carolina has scheduled a press conference for 1:30pm today, where head men’s basketball coach Cliff Ellis is expected to announce his retirement. These rumors started circulating early last evening, and seem to have been confirmed by Jeff Goodman: Ellis, who turned 78 yesterday, has been the head coach at CCU for the past 17

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OFFICIAL: Omidvar named Assistant Coach at Coastal Carolina

Coastal Carolina University head men’s basketball coach Cliff Ellis has announced the addition of Nima Omidvar as an assistant coach effective immediately. Omidvar has coaching experience on both the high school and college levels, serving on the collegiate staffs at Fordham, George Washington, South Alabama, Maryland, NC State, and Bowie State. He has been a part of seven

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MILESTONE: Cliff Ellis wins 800th D1 game

Rudi Williams’ three with 22 seconds left carried the Coastal Carolina men’s basketball team to a come-from-behind 64-61 win in the semifinal round of the Baha Mar Nassau Championship. The win gave legendary CCU head coach Cliff Ellis his 800th career win as an NCAA Division I coach, becoming just the 13th coach in NCAA history

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Daily News – 12/3/20

Some items from around the college basketball coaching world… Wichita State AD Darron Boatright commented on the Shockers search for Gregg Marshall’s replacement. He told 3KSN in Wichita that the university will wait until the end of the season before selecting a permanent head coach. Current interim head coach Isaac Brown will be considered for

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Cliff Ellis Picks Up 800th Win

Four players scored in double digits to lead Coastal Carolina to an 85-73 win over Appalachian State and in the process, Head Coach Cliff Ellis recorded his 800th career win. Jaylen Shaw continues his torrid pace as he led the Chants in scoring with 20 points, including six straight free throws in the final seconds

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Patrick Blake Named Assistant at Coastal Carolina

Coastal Carolina head men’s basketball coach Cliff Ellis has named Patrick Blake the program’s newest assistant coach. Blake was most recently the head coach at Chipola College in Florida. “We are very excited to have Patrick join our men’s basketball program,” said Ellis. “We welcome Patrick on board as we continue to move forward and build on our recent

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