Xavier will name current Evansville assistant Matthew Graves as their new Special Assistant to the head coach. Graves joined the Evansville staff prior to last season after spending five seasons as the head coach at South Alabama (65-96). Prior to heading to USA, Graves had spent 17 years at Butler both as a player, and also
Former Xavier Basketball Standout Dante Jackson returns as an Assistant Coach
Xavier University first-year head coach Travis Steele has hired Xavier graduate and former Musketeer basketball standout Dante Jackson as an assistant coach. Jackson, who was a graduate assistant coach on the Xavier staff from 2012-14, won 107 games and played in four NCAA Tournaments as a Musketeer player, including an Elite Eight and two Sweet
Minnesota’s Johnson Headed to Xavier
Minnesota assistant coach Ben Johnson will join Travis Steele’s new staff at Xavier. Steele re-tweeted the following earlier today: Another piece in place for @CoachSteeleXU! Excited to announce the addition of @CoachBenJohnson to the XAVIER Family! More info to come shortly… Johnson had worked for the past four seasons on Richard Pitino’s staff at Minnesota.
Jonas Hayes to join Xavier Basketball Staff
Jonas Hayes, who had spent the past six seasons on the staff at Georgia, will become an assistant at Xavier. Xavier Basketball tweeted the following confirmation earlier today: Excited to announce the addition of @CoachJonas to @CoachSteeleXU’s staff! Welcome to the Xavier Family! More info to come shortly… As a player, Hayes was a three-year
Travis Steele Named Head Basketball Coach at Xavier
Xavier University Director of Athletics Greg Christopher announced today that Xavier Associate Head Coach Travis Steele has been selected as the new Sedler Family Men’s Head Basketball Coach at Xavier. Steele has spent 10 seasons at Xavier, including nine on the staff of his predecessor, Chris Mack. Steele, 36, will be officially introduced as the
REPORT: Louisville, Chris Mack to meet this weekend
According to a report by the Courier Journal, Officials from Louisville are scheduled to meet with Xavier head coach Chris Mack this weekend. The Cardinals officially parted ways with interim head coach Scott Padgett yesterday. Louisville will not be using a search firm, but will instead on a group of “informal” advisors surrounding Interim AD
HoopDirt.com Daily News – 1/18/18
HoopDirt.com’s Daily News from the college basketball coaching world… Former Baruch College head coach Machli Joseph admitted Wednesday to siphoning $700,000 meant for the school’s athletic department, authorities said. Joseph, 43, pleaded guilty to embezzlement and misapplication. The onetime basketball coach, who worked in the college’s athletic department from 2002 to 2016, repeatedly rented gym
Xavier Extends the Contract of Men’s Basketball Head Coach Chris Mack
Xavier University Director of Athletics Greg Christopher announced today that the contract of Sedler Family Men’s Head Basketball Coach Chris Mack has been extended by a year through the 2022-23 season. Mack, who is in his ninth season at the helm, is 17 wins shy of taking over as Xavier’s all-time winningest head basketball coach. Mack has led
Chris Mack Receives Extension Through 2021-22 at Xavier
Xavier University Director of Athletics Greg Christopher announced today that the contract of Sedler Family Men’s Head Basketball Coach Chris Mack has been extended by a year through the 2021-22 season. Mack, Xavier’s first-ever National Coach of the Year, was selected as the 2015-16 USBWA Henry Iba National Coach of the Year as well as
Xavier’s Chris Mack Wins U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s Henry Iba Coach of the Year Award
Chris Mack, whose Xavier Musketeers were unranked in preseason Top 25 polls but have climbed to No. 5 this week entering play in the Big East Conference Tournament, has been selected the winner of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s Henry Iba Award for national coach of the year. Mack The Henry Iba Award is named
DBO Dirt…
Before I get into the dirt, I just wanted to clarify the Director of Basketball Operations abbreviation. It is DBO, not DOBO like many of the younger guys like to refer to it. I was an assistant at the DI level when this position was invented (and when most of the current DBO’s were in
POLL: Who Will Florida Hire to Replace Billy Donovan?
As part of some new features on HoopDirt, we will begin asking poll questions to our audience. To start off the poll series, today’s question deals with the most high-profile job opening of this year’s coaching carousel: University of Florida. THIS POLL IS NOW CLOSED, as Florida has officially hired Michael White, former head coach