Shaka Smart wasn’t going to leave VCU for just any job, and turned down overtures from a number of programs in recent years. Now he found one worth leaving for, and he’s fundamentally the same guy he’s always been.
Month: April 2015
What Kentucky gave us will be forgotten, and that’s too bad
Most people are going to remember Kentucky in 2014-15 more for the one loss than the 38 wins and the journey that came with it. That’s the most unfortunate thing of all.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, April 5, 2015
The NCAA Tournament continued to bless us with great games on Saturday night, one of which will be remembered more than the other for obvious reasons.
The Morning Dish – Saturday, April 4, 2015
The Final Four is here at last, the culmination of the 2015 NCAA Tournament very near now with the national semifinals tonight and the championship game coming Monday night.
The Morning Dish – Friday, April 3, 2015
Brad Stevens and Shaka Smart once seemed they might be long-tenured at their schools when both were consistently spurning numerous job offers despite repeated opportunities to move on to bigger (paying) things. A couple years later, though, both are gone now to new challenges.
Larranaga cherishes win and Garden experience
Jim Larranaga has been to the mountain top, but had never been the head coach of a team at Madison Square Garden until Tuesday. His team did well on that first occasion.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, April 2, 2015
To some, Liberty is a sleeping giant program that been far more asleep than a giant since joining D-I almost 30 years ago. The school’s coaching history, though, has been…interesting? Quirky? Bizarre? Take your pick.
A happy resolution comes in Delaware
There has finally been a resolution to Monte Ross’ contract situation, and it’s a happy one for the Blue Hens’ head coach and his staff after the work they have done to rebuild the program.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, April 1, 2015
We’re all biding our time until the Final Four games on Saturday, but all news is not just coaching changes and players coming and going (mostly going) as college basketball’s other tournaments are also wrapping up this week.
