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Doherty named Director of Basketball Operations at Harvard

Tripp Doherty – formerly on the men’s basketball staffs at Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Harvard – is set to re-join the Harvard University men’s basketball staff as the Director of Basketball Operations ahead of the 2023-24 season, Tommy Amaker, The Thomas G. Stemberg ’71 Family Endowed Coach for Harvard Men’s Basketball, announced on Wednesday. During the 2022-23

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Yale’s Jones earns 200th Ivy League victory

Yale Head Men’s Basketball Coach James Jones earned the 200th Ivy League victory of his career with a 76-58 victory over Cornell on Senior Night. Jones, who becomes just the second coach to record 200 Ivy League regular season wins, joins Princeton’s Pete Carril, who led the Tigers to 310 league victories. The Bulldogs veteran

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Farmer joins Harvard Basketball staff

 Larry Farmer – formerly an assistant coach at MIT and a graduate assistant at Boston College – is set to join the Harvard University men’s basketball staff as an assistant coach ahead of the 2022-23 season, Tommy Amaker, The Thomas G. Stemberg ’71 Family Endowed Coach for Harvard Men’s Basketball, announced on Friday. “We are more than thrilled

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Brown Basketball Staff Update

Brown Men’s Basketball Head Coaching Chair Mike Martin ’04 has announced two new additions to the Bears’ coaching staff for the upcoming 2022-23 season. Tyson Wheeler will join the program as an assistant coach, while Sydney Armand will take over the role of operations coordinator. Sam Hershberger, who has served as the team’s operations coordinator over the last

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Jaques promoted to Associate Head Coach at Cornell

Jon Jaques ’10, who has been on the court for the Big Red for three Ivy League titles and on the sideline for a pair of conference tournament appearances, has been named Associate Head Coach of the men’s basketball program. His varied responsibilities over the years have included game and practice planning, opponent scouting, alumni

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Matt Fraschilla named Assistant Basketball Coach at Harvard

 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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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