Author: Hoopville Staff

Indiana: Hoosier Has High Hopes

Hoosier Has High Hopes: Indiana freshman center Cem Dinc has entered the NBA Draft. Dinc played only 12 minutes this past season, scoring three points. He was injured for much of the season and did not progress enough to earn playing time under former coach Mike Davis. When he arrived […]

Villanova: Lowry Strengthens PG Ranks

Lowry Strengthens PG Ranks: The NBA Draft had been lacking in talented point guards until the final week or two before the deadline for early entrants to declare. First, Connecticut’s Marcus Williams made his intentions official. Now Villanova’s Kyle Lowry has entered the draft. The sophomore point guard averaged 11.0 […]

Florida Atlantic: Walters Replaces Doherty

Walters Replaces Doherty: Florida Atlantic has promoted associate coach Rex Walters to head coach to replace recently departed Matt Doherty. The former North Carolina coach left the Owls to lead SMU. He had hired Walters to the Florida Atlantic staff after taking the reins last season and leading the team […]

NCAA: NCAA Handles Mascot Appeals

NCAA Handles Mascot Appeals: The NCAA proved that it is serious about enforcing its ban on hostile and abusive mascots. Illinois, North Dakota and Indiana University of Pennsylvania all lost their second appeals, in which they claimed that their mascots were not hostile and abusive to American Indians. As part […]

Ball State’s Thompson names staff

Thompson’s staff: Ball State’s new head coach, Ronny Thompson, recently added Steve Flint and Troy Collier to his staff. Flint last was an assistant at junior college Southern Idaho in 2004-05. Collier spent the last four seasons as an assistant at Missouri State. Both are joining the Cardinals as assistants. […]

New Bearcat Coach Names Staff

Three Out of Four: New Cincinnati head coach Mick Cronin has already seen shuffling in his staff. In total, four new additions were named to Cronin’s staff, but only three remain. Larry Davis, who spent the past nine years as the head coach of Furman, was named associate head coach. […]

Cleveland State: New Coach Water’s New Staff

New Coach, New Staff: Cleveland State’s Gary Waters made his first appointments to his staff with Jayson Gee and Jermaine Kimbrough. Gee spent last season on St. Bonaventure’s staff and will join Water’s staff as an associate coach. Kimbrough spent last season at IPFW and will be an assistant coach. […]