Tommy Amaker, The Thomas G. Stemberg ’71 Family Endowed Coach for Harvard Men’s Basketball, has announced the hiring of Matt Fraschilla ’17 as the program’s new assistant coach. The former Crimson letterwinner replaces Brian Eskildsen, who recently joined the Georgia Tech men’s basketball staff. “We are thrilled to welcome Matt back to Harvard,” Amaker said. “Matt
D3 DIRT: NYU Search Update
Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) I have heard from a bunch of people on this one. It sounds like the final group at for the open head coach position at D3 NYU is: Donny Guerinoni – Assistant Coach Harvard David Klatsky – Assistant Coach Colgate Justin Simon – Assistant Coach Yale According to people close to this
IVY LEAGUE DIRT: Dartmouth adds two to staff
Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) I can confirm through multiple sources that the Dartmouth men’s basketball program will add Jabari Trotter as an assistant coach, and Zack Curran as the new Director of Basketball Operations. Trotter will return to the Big Green staff after serving assistant at Hawaii for the past three seasons. The 2012 Dartmouth
Daily News & Notes – 2/1/21
Today’s News & Notes from around the college basketball coaching world… Mixed messages from Kansas State AD Gene Taylor this weekend on the future of head coach Bruce Weber. Taylor told The Mercury on Saturday that “our intention” is for Weber to return next season. However, when speaking with Wichita Eagle on Sunday, Taylor said.
DAILY DIRT: New England Edition – 10/26/20
A couple quick things out of gloomy New England… I have heard from multiple sources that Dartmouth will hire Josh Einhorn as their new Director of Basketball Operations. He most recently served as a graduate assistant on Jim Christian’s staff at Boston College. Einhorn, who was also spent three seasons as an assistant at D3
OFFICIAL: Elkin joins Yale Basketball Staff
Following up on something that HoopDirt.com mentioned back on 8/23 (DAILY DIRT). Yale has made the hiring of Matt Elkin as their new DBO official. Here’s the official release: Matt Elkin has joined the Yale men’s basketball staff as Director of Operations. Elkin comes to New Haven after serving as an assistant coach at the
Carberry named Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach at Columbia
Tobe Carberry has joined the Columbia Men’s Basketball coaching staff after a successful three-year stint at Yale, where the Bulldogs posted a 30-12 Ivy League record and earned a pair of NCAA Tournament berths. In 2019-20, Yale captured its second straight Ivy title and won 23 games overall, tying the 2015-16 team for the most in the
Dartmouth DBO takes prep job
St. Johnsbury Academy (VT) has named Ben Davis as the school’s new Assistant Athletic Director. Davis will also take over as the school’s varsity boys’ basketball coach, replacing David McGinn, who announced his retirement as the Athletic Director and head coach after ten years at SJA. Ben will work with newly-hired Athletic Director John Lenzini and
Ivy League Cancels Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments
The Ivy League has issued the following statement on the cancellation of their upcoming men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, as well as spectator limitations for other sports: With the health of students as well as the campus and the general community in mind, the Ivy League Presidents have decided to cancel the upcoming Ivy League
Columbia tabs Levine as Assistant Basketball Coach
Justin Levine will join the Columbia men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach fourth-year head coach Jim Engles announced today. Levine comes to the Lions after spending four seasons, the last two as video coordinator, at Virginia Commonwealth University. “Justin’s accomplished a lot in a short amount of time in this business,” Engles said. “He
Ongley named Assistant Basketball Coach at Dartmouth
Dartmouth men’s basketball head coach David McLaughlin announced the hiring of Steve Ongley as an assistant coach. Ongley comes to Dartmouth after spending the past season on the coaching staff at Columbia. “We are thrilled to have Steve join our Dartmouth basketball family,” McLaughlin said. “Beyond being a person of high character and having a
Brown University Basketball Staff Update
Brown men’s basketball coach Mike Martin has named Cooper Handelsman and Sam Hershberger to his 2019-20 coaching staff, with Handelsman being named Assistant Coach and Hershberger the Director of Basketball Operations. “Our program is very fortunate to be adding Cooper and Sam to our coaching staff,” said Martin. “They both have all of the requisite qualities to have outstanding