Delta Devils Give Woods First Head Coaching Job: Mississippi Valley State has hired Sean Woods to be the Delta Devils’ coach. Woods most recently worked as an assistant coach at TCU. He worked two years at TCU as director of basketball operations and an assistant after starting his coaching career […]
Month: June 2008
Duquesne: Duquesne Extends Everhart Through 2013-14
Duquesne Extends Everhart Through 2013-14: Happy with the program’s positive momentum, Duquesne officials have decided to extended coach Ron Everhart’s contract by three years through 2013-14. Everhart has made the Dukes competitive in only two seasons after the team finished 3-24 in former coach Danny Nee’s final season in 2005-06. […]
Iowa State, Syracuse: Syracuse Adds a Cyclone
Syracuse Adds a Cyclone: Iowa State forward Wesley Johnson has decided to transfer to Syracuse. The rising junior picked the Orange after visiting the university, liking it so much that he opted to cancel visits to Ohio State, Pittsburgh and West Virginia. Johnson averaged 12.4 points per game last season […]
Western Michigan, Dayton: Gregory Looks to MAC for Assistant
Gregory Looks to MAC for Assistant: Dayton coach Brian Gregory has hired Western Michigan assistant coach Cornell Mann to join his staff. Mann replaces Anthony Solomon, who left Dayton to work at Notre Dame. A veteran of the Mid-American Conference, Mann played for Akron for three seasons and worked at […]
Wake Forest: Demon Deacons Will Start Without Skeen
Demon Deacons Will Start Without Skeen: Wake Forest sophomore forward Jamie Skeen will miss the first semester of his junior season because he violated an academic policy. Skeen averaged 5.6 points and 4.1 rebounds per game last season. On a young team that returns all its major pieces, Skeen needs […]
Furman: Paladin Junior Transfers to D-II Team
Paladin Junior Transfers to D-II Team: Furman junior forward Stanley Jones will leave the Paladins to transfer to Francis Marion, a Division II school. Jones saw his playing time diminish during the past two seasons after starting 26 games in his freshman season. Jones averaged 6.4 points and 3.4 rebounds […]
Duke: Center on Blue Devils’ First Tourney Team Dies
Center on Blue Devils’ First Tourney Team Dies: Former Duke Blue Devil Junior Morgan, 74, died Saturday of prostate cancer. Morgan led the Blue Devils in 1954-55 with 9.1 rebounds per game, which helped guide Duke to its first NCAA Tournament appearance in team history. The Blue Devils lost the […]
Ohio: O’Shea Returns to New England for a Challenge
O’Shea Returns to New England for a Challenge: Ohio coach Tim O’Shea is leaving the Bobcats to coach Bryant University in Rhode Island. The Division II program will begin the transition to Division I play this season. It has an invitation to join the Northeast Conference after the four-year transition […]
Rumble In The Bronx Recap
Rumble in the Bronx Recap by Phil Kasiecki BRONX, N.Y. – Annually the best team tournament in June, the Rumble in the Bronx almost lived up to its name in the wrong way. But all in all, the tournament saw the usual competitive games along with some elite individual talents. […]
Quarterfinal Notes From Rumble In The Bronx
Rumble in the Bronx Quarterfinal Notes by Matthew Moll BRONX, N.Y. – Before the Rumble in the Bronx turned into a literal rumble, a few players from one of the quarterfinal games stood out. Playaz Brian Oliver, Oak Hill Academy – At times Oliver was the best athlete on the […]
