The Fieldhouse's College Basketball Coaching Tracker

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May 9

UNC-Greensboro: Andre Gray is joining coach Wes Miller’s staff an UNCG after working the last three seasons at Charlotte. Gray has 16 years of college coaching experience. The Spartans won the Southern Conference Tournament in March and played Gonzaga in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, putting a scare into the Zags before losing, 68-64.

Florida International: Jeremy Ballard has hired Jesse Bopp as an assistant coach. Bopp and Ballard worked together at VCU from 2013-15. Bopp, who has also worked at Chattanooga and New Mexico State, spent the 2017-18 season coaching IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla.

Mount St. Mary’s: Mount St. Mary’s is expected to hire former assistant coach Dan Engelstad to replace Jamion Christian, who had left to take the Siena job, according to college basketball writer Kyle McFadden. Engelstad spent the last five seasons as the head coach at South Vermont, a Division III school. He went 104-34 and made two NCAA Tournaments at SVC. He was an assistant at Mount Saint Mary’s from 2007-2010.

May 8

La Salle: In a bit of a surprising move, new LaSalle head coach Ashley Howard is expected to tab Kenny Johnson as one of his assistants, according to multiple reports. Johnson last coached at Louisville during the 2016-2017 season but was fired in the wake of FBI probe into college basketball prior to last season. He is the first coach with ties to the FBI probe that has been rehired since the news first broke in September.

May 7

Longwood: New coach Griff Aldrich has announced the addition of veteran assistant Marty McGillian to his staff. McGillan has spent nearly 30 years at the Division-I level and has most recently coached on the men’s side from 2012 to 2017. He spent last season as an assistant with the Minnesota women’s program.

May 4

South Alabama: Richie Riley has completed his staff with the hiring of assistant coach Adam Howard, who left Troy, which like South Alabama competes in the Sun Belt Conference. Before Troy, Howard worked at Tennessee, Southern Miss and Morehead State. Ammorrow Morgan and Nima Omidvar are Riley’s other assistants, and Tyler Parker is the staff’s director of basketball operations.

May 3

Drake: Marty Richter has left his job as head coach at Florida Southwestern State College to join Darian DeVries’ staff at Drake. Richter literally built the FSW program from scratch and coached it for two seasons, compiling a 56-10 record and leading the Bucs to the NJCAA Tournament in 2017-18. Richter was a former assistant at FGCU and was a candidate for the head-coaching job there last month after coach Joe Dooley left for East Carolina. Two of his former FSW players, twins Anthony and Tremmell Murphy, signed with Drake on Monday.

UNC-Asheville: Mike Moynihan has left his job as director of operations at Mississippi State to join new head coach Mike Morrell’s staff as an assistant coach. The announcement was made by Mississippi State coach Ben Howland during a news conference to discuss several players who decided to pull their names from the NBA Draft process. Moynihan had previously worked at Troy and George Mason.

May 2

Siena: Multiple media outlets are reporting that Siena has tabbed current Mount St. Mary’s head coach Jamion Christian as the new head coach of the Saints. Christian is considered to be one of the bright young coaches in the sport after reaching two NCAA Tournaments in six years at his alma mater. He replaces Jimmy Pastos, who resigned following an internal investigation by the school back in mid-April.

May 1

FIU: New head coach Jeremy Ballard has hired David Cason as an assistant. Cason spent the 2017-18 season on the staff at FGCU, which played in the NIT, and has more than 20 years experience in Division I, with stops at Texas, VCU, Vanderbilt, North Carolina and Notre Dame.

April 28

Winthrop: Former Longwood head coach Jayson Gee has joined Pat Kelsey’s staff as associate head coach. During a 29-year career, Gee also has been the head coach at the University of Charleston (W.Va.) and was an assistant or associate head coach at Youngstown State, Ohio, St. Bonaventure and Cleveland State.

April 27

East Carolina: New coach Joe Dooley has added Raphael Chillious to his staff as an assistant coach, Jon Rothstein of FanRag Sports is reporting. Chillious spent last season at UConn as an associate head coach. He spent seven of the previous eight years at Washington, with a one-year stint (2012-13) at Villanova.

April 26

South Alabama: Richie Riley has added Nima Omidvar as an assistant coach on his staff. Omidvar comes to South Alabama after four years as Maryland’s director of basketball operations, and previously worked as a video coordinator at N.C. State. A Maryland alum, Omidvar began his coaching career with Team Takeover, one of the most prominent AAU programs on the East Coast.

BYU: Coach Dave Rose has elevated Lee Cummard to replace former assistant Heath Schroyer, who left last month to become head coach at McNeese State. Cummard has been a graduate assistant on the BYU staff for the last two seasons and also played for the Cougars from 2005-09. In 2008, his junior season, Cummard earned Mountain West co-player of the year honors after averaging 15.8 points, 6.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists, and shooting 56.9 percent from the field, 47.2 from 3 and 85.7 from the free-throw line. BYU competed in three NCAA Tournaments during Cummard’s playing career.

Boise State: Tim Duryea, fired last month as head coach at Utah State, will join Leon Rice’s staff as an assistant, as reported by the Idaho Press-Tribune. Duryea brings considerable experience; he ran the program at Utah State for three years, but before that he spent 14 seasons as an assistant for Stew Morrill, who led the Aggies to a 402-156 record and eight NCAA Tournament trips in his 17 seasons. Coincidentally, in his second-to-last game at Utah State, Duryea led the Aggies, seeded seventh in the Mountain West Tournament, to a quarterfinal victory over second-seeded Boise State.

April 24

Utah State: Craig Smith announced another addition to his staff, tabbing Tramel Barnes as an assistant coach. Barnes spent the last six years as an assistant at DII Southwest Minnesota State, helping the Mustangs to a pair of conference titles. Barnes joins Austin Hansen and Eric Peterson as previously named assistant coaches.

April 23

San Diego State: Aztecs coach Brian Dutcher announced on Monday that he has tabbed Long Beach State associate head coach Rod Palmer for one of the vacancies on his staff. Palmer comes to the school after more than a decade with Dan Monson at Long Beach. The Aztecs currently have two vacancies on their staff, after Justin Hutson left to accept the Fresno State head coaching job, and Tim Shelton departed from the program as well. Shelton is expected to join Hutson at Fresno State.

April 21

UC-Riverside: New coach David Patrick announced two additions to his staff Saturday, with Mike Magpayo and Liam Simmons joining the Highlanders as assistant coaches. Magpayo comes to Riverside after a season as San Francisco’s director of basketball operations and three seasons at Campbell. He also was once the CEO of a multimillion dollar real estate firm in Southern California, according to UC-Riverside’s official news release. Simmons joins the Highlanders after a year as the associate head coach at Southwest Baptist University.

April 20

FIU: Jeremy Ballard has been hired to replace Anthony Evans. Ballard was associate head coach at VCU in 2017-18, and before that spent 14 seasons as an assistant at Pittsburgh, Illinois State, VCU, Tulsa and Colgate.

Utah State: New coach Craig Smith announced two official additions to his new staff in Logan, tabbing Austin Hansen and Eric Peterson as his assistants. Each followed Smith from South Dakota, where they helped the Coyotes to a 79-55 record during their four-year run at the school, including a 26-9 mark this season.

Georgia: Tom Crean has hired his second assistant coach. Joe Scott comes to Athens from Holy Cross, where he served as an assistant the last two years, but he’s got considerable head coaching experience, having been the top man at Denver (2007-16), Princeton (2004-07) and Air Force (2000-04). Scott played for and later was an assistant for legendary Princeton coach Pete Carril.

Liberty: Flames’ coach Ritchie McKay announced on Thursday that he has added Joe Pierre as the program’s new director of player development. Pierre comes to Liberty after two years as a grad assistant at Middle Tennessee State, where he helped Kermit Davis’ former club compile a 56-13 overall record and one NCAA Tournament berth.

April 19

Ole Miss: Former Arizona State assistant Levi Watkins has joined new coach Kermit Davis’ staff. Watkins is considered a top recruiter. He played college basketball at N.C. State, helping lead the Wolfpack to four consecutive NCAA Tournaments. Watkins joins Win Case and Ronnie Hamilton, both of whom followed Davis from Middle Tennessee.

Seton Hall: Lousiana Tech assistant coach Tony Skinn is headed to Seton Hall to replace Shaheen Holloway, Adam Zagoria of zagsblog.com is reporting. Skinn spent three years at LA Tech and his claim to fame is starting at point guard for the George Mason Final Four team in 2006. Holloway left last week to become head coach at Saint Peter’s.

Cal: The Fieldhouse has confirmed a report that Golden Bears head coach Wyking Jones has added former UCLA assistant David Grace to his staff. Grace had been with Steve Alford since he arrived in Los Angeles in 2013, and as the Bruins’ recruiting coordinator helped secure back-to-back Top-3 classes nationally in 2017 and 2018.

Pittsburgh: Milan Brown has joined new coach Jeff Capel’s staff. Brown, who spent the last three seasons as an assistant at the College of Charleston — which won the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament and played in the NCAA Tournament in 2018 — has 12 years of Division I head-coaching experience at Mount St. Mary’s (2003-10) and Holy Cross (2010-15). He joins associate head coach Tim O’Toole, and Capel’s brother Jason on the Pitt staff.

April 18

Little Rock: Darrell Walker has added Alfred Jordan to his staff. Jordan follows Walker from Clark Atlanta, where he served as recruiting coordinator. The last two seasons, Walker and Jordan helped lead the Panthers to a 45-18 record and consecutive NCAA Division II tournament trips.

Longwood: New head coach Griff Aldrich announced that he has added Maurice Williams, an assistant the last seasons at Johns Hopkins, to his staff. During his time at JHU, Williams helped to two Division III tournament appearances and a 24-5 record overall last season.

Saint Peter’s: Late last week, Shaheen Holloway was officially announced as the Peacocks’ new head coach, replacing John Dunne, who spent 12 seasons at the school. Holloway, a former McDonald’s All-American who played at Seton Hall, spent the last 11 years as Kevin Willard’s right-hand man, for three years at Iona and the last eight at Seton Hall.

April 17

Drake: New coach Darian DeVries announced the addition of assistant coach Larry Blunt on Monday. Blunt spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at Canisius. He has recruiting ties to the East Coast and in Canada. Prior to his time at Canisius, he was the head coach at Orangeville Prep in Mono, Ontario, for three seasons, where he coached current NBA players Jamal Murray and Thon Maker.

South Alabama: Richie Riley has brought two former staffers from Nicholls State with him, assistant coach Amorrow Morgan and director of basketball operations Tyler Parker.

April 16

Auburn: Head coach Bruce Pearl announced on Monday that he has hired former Little Rock head coach Wes Flanigan as an assistant coach. Flanigan spent the last two years as the Trojans’ head coach, and the previous season as an assistant under then-coach Chris Beard. Flanigan is also an Auburn alum who played for the Tigers from 1993-97.

UTEP: Rodney Terry added three coaches to his staff on Friday: assistant coach Brian Burton, assistant Nick Maston and director of basketball operations Mark Gisbertz. All three coaches were with Terry at Fresno State. Maston was an assistant at Fresno the last seven years under Terry. Burton was the director of basketball operations last season, and he has success in Texas, spending threes seasons (2014-17) as an assistant at Lamar. Gisbertz was at Fresno for seven years, the last two seasons serving as the director of player development.

April 14

Bryant: Jared Grasso has added Brock Erickson and Phil Martelli Jr. to his staff.

UCLA: Steve Alford is replacing assistant coach David Grace with former East Tennessee State coach Murry Bartow, ESPN’s Jeff Goodman is reporting. Grace had been with Alford at UCLA since 2013 and is considered one of the top recruiters in the country.

Kent State: Dante Jackson has joined Rob Senderoff’s staff at Kent State. Jackson comes from Robert Morris, and he previously worked for Air Force and Northern Kentucky, and was a graduate assistant at Ohio. The former Xavier player came highly recommended by Sean Miller and Chris Mack, his former coaches there.

April 13

Siena: Coach Jimmy Patsos has resigned amid a university investigation into alleged mistreatment of players and alleged financial misconduct. Siena finished 8-24 this season — the third-worst record since the program became Division I in 1976 — but Patsos still had the support of athletic director John D’Argenio, and his job was thought to be secure. But after a manager came forward with allegations of player abuse, Patsos stepped aside, even as the university probe continues.

UTEP: Rodney Terry has added former San Diego head coach Lamont Smith to his staff. Smith, who has also worked as an assistant at Saint Louis, Saint Mary’s, Santa Clara, Washington, Arizona State and New Mexico, is from The Colony in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, so he has familiarity with the recruiting territory of his new school.

Xavier: Travis Steele has added another full-time assistant. Former Minnesota assistant Ben Johnson joins former Georgia assistant Jonas Hayes. Johnson, who worked for Richard Pitino for four seasons at Minnesota, was in charge of recruiting for the Golden Gophers. Johnson played two seasons for Minnesota and was a two-time captain.

Pittsburgh: Jeff Capel added four assistants to his staff on Friday, including his brother, Jason Capel, and former Cal associate head coach Tim O’Toole. Jeff Capel also retained former Pitt staffers Brian Regan and Jason Richards.

Middle Tennessee: Andre Morgan is leaving UNC-Greensboro to become the third assistant coach hired by Nick McDevitt at Middle Tennessee. Morgan spent the last two seasons at UNCG, where the Spartans went 52-18 and made a 2018 NCAA Tournament appearance.

Evansville: New coach Walter McCarty is hiring Todd Lickliter and Matthew Graves as assistant coaches. McCarty has Butler ties by association after spending the last five years on Brad Stevens’ staff in Boston, and both Licklighter and Graves have Butler ties. Lickliter was the head coach before Stevens and has been a regional scout for the Celtics. Graves, who was recently fired at South Alabama, was an assistant under Stevens at Butler.

Western Carolina: Monty Sanders is joining Mark Prosser’s staff at Western Carolina after spending the last eight years at Elon, including five seasons as an assistant coach. Sanders, who played at Elon, rounds out Prosser’s staff, joining Brigham Waginger and Tony Rack.

Boise State: Associate head coach Phil Beckner is leaving the program to pursue a position at the pro level, Boise State beat writer B.J. Rains of the Idaho Press-Tribune reported on Friday morning. Beckner has coached in the NBA G League in the past and was also an assistant at Weber State when Damian Lillard was there. He spent two seasons in Boise and was promoted to associate head coach prior to last year.

Marquette: Dwayne Killings has been added to Marquette coach Steve Wojciechowski’s staff as an assistant coach. Killings served as an assistant the last two seasons at Connecticut, and before that he was on the Temple staff for five years.

April 12

Southern: Sean Woods gets another chance to be a head coach as Southern hires him to replace former coach Roman Banks, who became the program’s full-time athletics director after having served a dual role. Woods resigned as Morehead State coach two months into the 2016-17 season amid allegations of assault from two of his players. Woods worked the 2017-18 season as an assistant at Stetson. Woods had enjoyed previous success in the Southwestern Athletic Conference at Mississippi Valley State (2008-12), which he led to 21 wins and an NCAA Tournament berth in his final season before moving to Morehead, where he was 77-70 from 2012-16.

TCU: Former UT-Arlington coach Scott Cross has landed at TCU as an assistant coach under Jamie Dixon. Cross spent the last 20 years as a coach at his alma mater, the first eight as an assistant and the last 12 as head coach. He went 225-161 in 12 seasons. He replaces David Patrick on TCU’s staff. Patrick left to become the coach at UC-Riverside.

Western Carolina: Mark Prosser added a second assistant to his staff on Thursday, hiring Tony Rack from Northern Kentucky. Rack, who played at NKU, was the director of basketball operations at the school and worked in the same role at Winthrop when Prosser was on the staff there.

April 11

UNC-Asheville: UNC-Asheville has hired Texas assistant Mike Morrell as its new coach. Morrell has spent the last seven years as an assistant coach on Shaka Smart’s staff — four years at VCU and the last three at Texas. Morrell replaces Nicholas McDevitt, who left UNC-Asheville to become the coach at Middle Tennessee. The Bulldogs are coming off a 21-13 season and a Big South regular-season championship.

Western Carolina: New coach Mark Prosser has decided to retain assistant coach Brigham Waginger, who has been on the staff at the school since 2011. Waginger played at Western Carolina, graduating in 2010, and was promoted to full-time assistant in 2012.

April 10

Evansville: New head coach Walter McCarty made his first official hires on Wednesday, tabbing Terrence Commodore and Chris Sparks as assistant coaches while adding Logan Baumann as the Director of Basketball Operations. Commodore comes to Evansville after three years at Eastern Kentucky, and before that served for four years in an operations role at Kentucky. Sparks has close to two decades in coaching, most recently overseas in Australia, while Baumann comes from Louisville. McCarty still has one remaining spot for an additional assistant coach.

Utah State: Eric Peterson and Austin Hansen are joining Craig Smith’s staff at Utah State, a source tells The Fieldhouse. Both were assistants at South Dakota under Smith for the last four seasons.

Texas Tech: Chris Beard looked in-house to replace Chris Ogden on his staff, promoting chief of staff Brian Burg to assistant coach. Burg was an assistant coach on Beard’s staff at Little Rock in 2015-16 and followed him to Lubbock. He’s also spent time as an assistant coach at Campbell and North Carolina Central. Ogden left Texas Tech to become the head coach at UT-Arlington last Friday.

Arizona: Assistant coach Danny Peters is leaving Ball State to become an assistant coach on Sean Miller’s staff, 247Sports’ Evan Daniels reported via Twitter on Tuesday. Peters worked under Miller for four years prior to leaving for Ball State in June 2014. During his previous stint at Arizona, he was a graduate manager for two years and then got promoted to assistant director of basketball operations in August 2012.

April 9

Minnesota: Assistant coach Rob Jeter is leaving UNLV to take a spot on Richard Pitino’s staff at Minnesota, 247 Sports’ Evan Daniels reported. Jeter spent the last two years at UNLV after 11 seasons as head coach at Milwaukee. He has experience in the Big Ten, serving as an assistant at Wisconsin under Bo Ryan from 2001 to 2005.

Louisville: The Cardinals announced Chris Mack’s staff over the weekend. Mack will be joined by his former assistants Luke Murray and Mike Pegues, along with ESPN analyst Dino Gaudio, the former head coach at Wake Forest.

UConn: Coach Dan Hurley completed his on court staff on Monday, with the addition of Kenya Hunter as the team’s third assistant coach. Hunter comes to Storrs from Nebraska, where he helped the Cornhuskers to a fourth-place finish in the Big Ten this season. Later Monday, Hurley added a pair of off-court, operations hires, naming as Eric Youncofski as Director of Basketball Operations and Tripp Doherty as Director of Scouting/Video. Both worked under Hurley at Rhode Island last season.

Xavier: Jonas Hayes has decided to take an assistant coaching spot at Xavier, passing on the opportunity to work at Georgia under new coach Tom Crean. Hayes spent the previous five seasons on the staff of former coach Mark Fox, serving as an assistant coach for four and in an operations role for one. He also played at Georgia from the 2001-2004 seasons.

April 8

La Salle: Ashley Howard has been named head coach, the school announced on Sunday. Howard has spent the last five seasons on Jay Wright’s staff at Villanova. Howard has worked at La Salle before, serving as an assistant under former coach John Giannini from 2004 through 2008.

Florida: Armon Gates is leaving Northwestern to become the associate head coach at Florida. Gates spent the last five seasons at Northwestern.

Incarnate Word: New head coach Carson Cunningham announced on Saturday that he added Darnell Archey as an assistant coach on his new staff. Archey spent the last five years at South Alabama, where he served as both an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator, and also spent four seasons in an operations role at Butler.

April 6

Memphis: Penny Hardaway has made more additions to his staff, first hiring former Florida star and NBA veteran Mike Miller. Though Miller doesn’t have previous coaching experience, he’s expected to contribute on the recruiting trail as he trades off his NBA past; he won two league championships during his career and also the NBA’s rookie of the year and sixth man of the year awards. Later Friday, Hardaway added two Memphis natives. Dwight Boyd, a player on the 1985 Final Four team, will serve as Director of Player Personnel. Rodney Hamilton, a former Tennessee State assistant coach, is the new Director of Operations.

Missouri State: Dana Ford has completed his staff. Corey Gipson, Jase Herl and Jake Headrick will be Ford’s three assistants, and Ford has hired Sheldon Everett as his director of basketball operations. Gipson was on the previous staff at Missouri State and is the one holdover. Herl spent the last two years at Colorado State and finished the season as interim head coach. Headrick comes over from Samford, where he was an assistant since 2012. Everett comes over from Miami (Ohio).

April 5

UT-Arlington: The school has scheduled a news conference at noon CT Friday to announce its new coach. Multiple outlets are reporting that coach will be Texas Tech assistant coach Chris Ogden, who played at Texas and was also a long-time assistant under Rick Barnes.

Charlotte: New 49ers coach Ron Sanchez has hired Kotie Kimble as an assistant. Kimble spent the last seven years on the staff at William & Mary.

Wyoming: Former Wyoming assistant Shaun Vandiver is returning to be an assistant coach after spending the last seven seasons as the head coach at Emporia State, a Division II school in Emporia, Kan. Vandiver was an assistant at Wyoming from 2005-2011.

Fresno State: The Fresno Bee is reporting that Fresno State has hired Justin Hutson, who has spent the last five seasons as an assistant at San Diego State. Hutson was the recruiting coordinator and associate head coach at SDSU. This is his first head coaching job at the college level.

Drake: New coach Darian DeVries made his first hire on Wednesday, adding former Drake player Matt Woodley to his staff. Woodley, a 2000 graduate who is the school’s all-time steals leader, spent last season as a special assistant at Pittsburgh. Prior to that, he was with the NBA G-League’s Iowa Energy, serving as the head coach in 2016-17.

Florida Gulf Coast: The Naples Daily News is reporting that Michael Fly will be promoted from his assistant position to become the head coach, replacing Joe Dooley. Dooley left for East Carolina, a move that became official on Wednesday. Fly joined Andy Enfield’s staff in 2011 and has been at the school since. He was also with Enfield at Florida State as a video coordinator. At 34, he is one of the nation’s youngest head coaches.

Colorado State: A source tells The Fieldhouse that new Colorado State coach Niko Medved has completed his coaching staff, bringing on Dave Thorson, JR Blount and Ali Farokhmanesh. All three coaches were with Medved this past season at Drake.

April 4

Middle Tennessee: New coach Nick McDevitt added another one of his former assistants to his staff on Tuesday with Wes Long joining Sean Dixon. Both were on his staff at UNC-Asheville last year. Long spent just one year there; prior to that, he was an assistant at VCU and Chattanooga, spending two years at each school.

Florida Atlantic: New coach Dusty May officially named his staff on Wednesday, tabbing Erik Pastrana, Akeem Miskdeen and Kyle Church to serve as his assistant coaches. Pastrana comes to FAU after one season as the head coach at Daytona State junior college last season, while Miskdeen has worked as an assistant at both Hampton and Kent State. Church previously worked with May at the University of Florida, where the pair served under head coach Mike White. Church was the Gators’ Director of Basketball Operations from 2015-2018.

Rhode Island: After weeks of speculation, David Cox was officially named as Dan Hurley’s replacement at Rhode Island on Wednesday afternoon. Cox spent the last four seasons as Hurley’s lead assistant there, helping build the Rams into a team that made back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2017 and 2018. The Maryland native has also served as an assistant at Rutgers, Georgetown and Pitt since joining the Division I ranks in 2006.

South Dakota: South Dakota alum Todd Lee is returning to Vermillion to replace Craig Smith, who left last week to take the head job at Utah State. Lee, a 1986 graduate, spent the last five seasons as the associate head coach at Grand Canyon, where he helped Dan Majerle transition the program to Division I and quickly become a contender in the WAC. Lee takes over a program that has yet to make an NCAA Tournament but has become one of the top jobs in the Summit League. The Coyotes finished 26-9 overall and 11-3 in league play this past season. Lee will be formally introduced at a news conference on Friday.

Georgia: Tom Crean made his first official hire as new Bulldogs’ head coach, announcing that Chad Dollar will join his staff as an assistant. An Atlanta native, Dollar spent last season at South Florida and has previous SEC coaching experience at both Auburn and LSU.

Charlotte: New 49ers coach Ron Sanchez has hired Vic Sfera as an assistant. Sfera worked the last two seasons at Liberty, which won 43 games in that span and played in the CIT both years, advancing to at least the quarterfinals each time. Previously, Sfera spent four seasons on the staff at Virginia, where he worked alongside Sanchez.

Connecticut: New UConn head coach Dan Hurley announced the addition of Kimani Young to his staff Wednesday morning. Young spent the last five years working under Richard Pitino at Minnesota.

April 3

Cal: Golden Bears’ coach Wyking Jones announced Tuesday that he has added Marty Wilson to his staff as an assistant coach. Wilson spent the last 10 seasons at Pepperdine, including the last seven as the school’s head coach. His best seasons as the school came in both 2014-15 and 2015-16, when the Waves finished 18-14 overall. He was not retained following this past season.

Cal State-Northridge: New coach Mark Gottfried is expected to name Jim Harrick to his staff, according to a report by ESPN. Harrick is best known as the coach of UCLA’s last national championship team in 1995 (Gotffried was an assistant on that staff) but has been out of college coaching since 2003, after Georgia landed on probation under his watch. Gottfried is also expected to hire Jeff Dunlap as part of the staff, per ESPN. Dunlap worked under Gottfried at N.C .State, and has most recently coached in the National Basketball League of Canada.

North Alabama: Tony Pujol has been hired to help guide the Lions into their Division I transition period, which begins in 2018-19 when they join the Atlantic Sun Conference. Pujol comes from Allen Edwards’ staff at Wyoming, but the bulk of his experience as an assistant coach has been in the South, including stints at Appalachian State, VCU and Alabama. UNA’s basketball program has a rich tradition in Division II, making 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, five trips to the Final Four and winning two national championships.

Marist: John Dunne is leaving Saint Peter’s to become the new coach at Marist. Dunne spent the last 12 years at Saint Peter’s. In 2011, the program won the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship, reaching the NCAA Tournament. In 2016-17, the Peacocks won 23 games and claimed the CollegeInsider.com Tournament championship, but they fell back this past season, finishing 14-18, one of nine losing seasons he had at the school. He takes over for Mike Maker, who won just 28 games in four seasons at Marist.

East Carolina: Joe Dooley has a verbal agreement to return to East Carolina, 94.3 The Game out of Greenville, N.C., reported. Dooley coached the Pirates from 1995-1999. He went on to be an assistant at New Mexico, Wyoming and Kansas before becoming a head coach again in 2013 at Florida Gulf Coast, where he replaced Andy Enfield. Dooley kept the momentum going at FGCU, reaching two NCAA Tournaments and winning 20-plus games every season during his five years in Fort Meyers. 94.3 The Game reports that he’s expected to sign a contract later Tuesday.

April 2

San Diego: San Diego has decided to stick with Sam Scholl as its coach. Scholl took over for the final four games of this past season after Lamont Smith resigned. Scholl has spent 18 years as an assistant in the West Coast Conference and also played two seasons for the Toreros from 1998-2000. The program returns 15 of its 16 players off this past season’s roster that finished 20-14 and made the quarterfinals of the CollegeInsider.com postseason tournament.

Florida International: Coach Anthony Evans has been fired, according to a report from ESPN’s Jeff Borzello on Twitter. Evans was hired in 2013 when the school made the move to Conference USA. He has yet to have a winning record in five seasons and finished this past year 14-18 overall and 8-10 in C-USA. Evans is best known for leading Norfolk State to an upset of Missouri in 2012 as a No. 15 seed. He won 47 games in his final two seasons at Norfolk State but was never able to duplicate that success at FIU.

Florida Atlantic: A person with direct knowledge of the situation tells The Fieldhouse that Akeem Miskdeen, Erik Pastrana and Kyle Church will be joining Dusty May’s staff.

March 31

Xavier: Travis Steele was announced on March 31 as the replacement for departed coach Chris Mack, a move that had been rumored for days and follows a pattern of promoting from within that’s worked well for the Musketeers in recent years. When Thad Matta left for Ohio State in 2004, he was replaced by assistant coach Sean Miller, and when Miller took the Arizona job in 2009, one of his assistants, Mack, replaced him. Miller was 120-47 in five seasons, and Mack 215-97 in nine before leaving for Louisville. Steele has spent the last 10 years on the Xavier staff. He was hired by Miller in 2008-09 as director of basketball operations, and after Miller went to Arizona, Mack promoted him to assistant coach.

UC-Riverside: Expect Riverside to suddenly become a destination for players from Australia now that longtime Division I assistant David Patrick has been hired as head coach. Wherever he’s coached, whether it was Saint Mary’s, Nicholls State, LSU or TCU, Patrick, who was born in Bermuda but raised in Australia, has used his connections to sign players from Australia and New Zealand. Patrick signed Ben Simmons at LSU and Patty Mills and Matthew Dellavedova at Saint Mary’s, among many others from Down Under.

March 30

Bryant: After seven seasons at Iona, the last six as associate head coach, Jared Grasso has been given a chance to run his own program. He replaces Tim O’Shea, who announced in February that he was retiring after 10 seasons. Grasso, who worked at Iona for one of the best offensive minds in the game, Tim Cluess, inherits a fixer-upper — the Bulldogs finished the 2017-18 season 3-28, including 2-16 in the Northeast Conference.

Maine: New head coach Richard Barron announced his staff on Friday, with the headline being the addition of Edniesha Curry, the only full-time female assistant coach in Division I basketball, according to the school’s news release. Curry served as an assistant player development coach under Barron with the Maine women’s team from 2015-2017. In addition to Curry, Barron also added Kevin Reed and Igor Vrzina to the staff as full-time assistants, with Jason Coleman serving as the team’s director of basketball operations.

Utah State: Craig Smith has parlayed four years of success as head coach at South Dakota into a job he’d long admired from afar — Utah State. He replaces Tim Duryea, who lasted just three seasons after taking over for his former boss, Stew Morrill, who retired in 2015 after 17 seasons, a 402-156 record and eight NCAA Tournament trips. Smith was 79-55 at South Dakota, including 38-26 record in the Summit League. His program comes off consecutive postseason appearances (NIT, CIT). Smith has experience coaching in the Mountain West as he spent five seasons as a Colorado State assistant.

USC Upstate: Dave Dickerson has returned to college basketball after a year away to become the coach at USC Upstate. Dickerson spent this past season as a scout with the Utah Jazz after working as an assistant on Thad Matta’s staff at Ohio State from 2010-2017. The former Maryland player replaces Kyle Perry, who was fired after one season.

Middle Tennessee: New coach Nick McDevett has added Sean Dixon to his staff. Dixon spent the last five years with McDevett at UNC-Asheville, where he was promoted to associate head coach before last season.

Nicholls State: Austin Claunch has moved up one seat on the Nicholls State bench, replacing his former boss Richie Riley, who left earlier this month to take the job at South Alabama. Claunch had been on Riley’s staff for two seasons, and in 2017-18 helped lead the Colonels to their most wins since 1995 (21) and their best Southland Conference record since 1998 (15-3). Before coming to Nicholls State, Claunch was on Brad Brownell’s staff at Clemson. Brownell is starting to develop his own coaching tree; along with Claunch, two more of his former assistants — Rick Ray (Southeast Missouri State) and Earl Grant (College of Charleston) — are head coaches.

March 29

Drake: The Bulldogs moved quickly to fill the vacancy left by Niko Medved’s March 22 departure to Colorado State. His replacement is longtime Creighton assistant Darian DeVries, who was hired a week after Medved left. It’s safe to say he’s familiar with the territory he’ll be recruiting. DeVries played high school basketball at Aplington-Parkersburg in Iowa and is a member of the Iowa High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame. From Aplington-Parkersburg, he moved to Northern Iowa, where he was a four-year starter who scored more than 1,000 points in his career. DeVries had been a Creighton assistant since 2001.

Eastern Kentucky: A.W. Hamilton was formally introduced as the Colonels’ coach on March 29. His ascension to a Division I head-coaching job was swift. From 2011 to 2017, he coached Hargrave (Va.) Military Academy, where he was chosen National Prep Coach of the Year in 2012 and 2016. This season, he joined another former Hargrave coach, Kevin Keatts, at N.C. State, where they helped lead the Wolfpack to a 21-12 record and NCAA Tournament berth. Hamilton, a native of Georgetown, Ky., starred at Scott County High School before prepping for a year at Hargrave.

March 28

Loyola-Maryland: Multiple outlets are reporting that Loyola-Maryland is set to name Georgia Tech assistant Tavaras Hardy as the school’s next coach. Hardy spent the last two years working under Josh Pastner with the Yellow Jackets and also has previous experience at Georgetown and Northwestern.

March 27

Louisville: Former Xavier coach Chris Mack was named Louisville’s coach on Tuesday in a deal that will reportedly pay him roughly $4 million per season over seven years. FanRag Sports reports that Luke Murray and Mike Pegues, who worked under Mack at Xavier last season, are expected to join his staff.

Xavier: With Mack leaving for Louisville, Xavier becomes the top job available . The last two times the Xavier job came open, the school replaced its coach with an in-house candidate — promoting Sean Miller in 2004 and then Mack in 2009 when Miller left for Arizona. Athletic director Greg Christopher has a worthy candidate to go that route in Travis Steele, who has spent the past nine seasons at Xavier and the last two as associate head coach.

Pittsburgh: Jeff Capel is leaving Duke to become the coach at Pittsburgh. Capel, who has been Mike Krzyzewski’s ace recruiter the last seven years, has had previous head coaching positions at Oklahoma (2007-11) and VCU (2003-06). Athletic director Heather Lyke, who came to Pitt a year ago, made the hire to replace Kevin Stallings. Details on Capel’s contract have not been released.

Western Carolina: Mark Prosser, the son of the late Skip Prosser, has been named the coach at Western Carolina. Prosser spent the last six years as an assistant at Winthrop.

Maryland-Eastern Shore: On Tuesday, Maryland Eastern-Shore announced it would not renew the contract of coach Bobby Collins, and in a surprise move said associate head coach Clifford Reed would serve as interim for the 2018-19 season. The school said it will conduct a national search and name a full-time coach following the 2019 season.

Middle Tennessee: The Blue Raiders hired a guy who, like former coach Kermit Davis, just might hang around for a while. Nick McDevett spent 21 years at UNC-Asheville as a player, assistant coach and, finally, as head coach. McDevett was 98-65 in five seasons running the program, and the last three years, he led the Bulldogs to more than 20 wins and a postseason tournament trip.

Georgia: Despite being hired on March 15, Tom Crean has yet to officially hire any staff members. Jonas Hayes, who worked on the previous staff, is expected to be retained, after
Crean and Hayes were seen out recruiting together earlier this week.

Connecticut: Tom Moore will be named an assistant coach on new coach Dan Hurley’s staff at UConn, although the move hasn’t officially been announced. Moore served as an assistant under
Hurley at Rhode Island last season and worked under Jim Calhoun at UConn from 1994-2007.

Colorado State: New coach Niko Medved announced that JR Blount and Ali Farokhmanesh will join his staff. The pair worked under Medved at Drake last season.

Maine: The Black Bears made a surprising move when they hired the school’s former women’s coach Richard Barron to replace Bob Walsh. Barron is not expected to keep any of the
previous staff, with an official announcement on hirings expected to come later this week.

March 26

Tennessee State: The school only needed five days to find a replacement for Dana Ford, who took the top job at Missouri State on March 21. That’s because hiring Brian “Penny” Collins was such a no-brainer. Collins, who comes from Dan Mueller’s staff at Illinois State, played high school and college basketball (Belmont) in Nashville, was the head coach at Columbia State (Tenn.), an assistant under Steve Forbes at East Tennessee State and director of basketball operations at Tennessee State. Collins knows the territory and has already made it clear he wants to recruit heavily in Nashville and the midstate area of Tennessee.

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