Latest update with most important vacancy now filled.
School - Former Coach - NEW COACH
CHARLOTTE - Mark Price/Houston Fancher - RON SANCHEZ
Bryant - Tim O’Shea
Cal State Northridge - Reggie Theus - MARK GOTTFRIED
Chicago State - Tracy Dildy
Colorado State - Larry Eustachy
Delaware State - Keith Walker
East Carolina - Jeff Lebo
Eastern Kentucky - Dan McHale
Evansville - Marty Simmons
Florida Atlantic - Michael Curry
Fresno State - Rodney Terry
Georgia - Mark Fox - TOM CREAN
High Point - Scott Cherry
Incarnate Word - Ken Burmeister
Little Rock - Wes Flanigan
Longwood - Jayson Gee
Louisville - Dave Padgett (interim)
Loyola (MD) - G.G. Smith
Maine - Bob Walsh - RICHARD BARRON
Marist - Mike Maker
McNeese State - Dave Simmons - HEATH SCHROYER
Memphis - Tubby Smith - PENNY HARDAWAY
Middle Tennessee - Kermit Davis
Mississippi - Andy Kennedy - KERMIT DAVIS
Missouri State - Paul Musk
Nicholls State - Richie Riley
North Alabama - Bobby Champagne
Pepperdine - Marty Wilson - LORENZO ROMAR
Pittsburgh - Kevin Stallings
San Diego - Lamont Smith
South Alabama - Matthew Graves - RICHIE RILEY
UC Riverside - Dennis Cutts - DAVID PATRICK
UConn - Kevin Ollie
USC Upstate - Kyle Perry
UTEP - Tim Floyd - RODNEY TERRY
Utah State - Tim Duryea
Western Carolina - Larry Hunter
This contradicts earlier report that Dan Hurley is close to accepting UConn position.
Medved was at Drake for 1 year, after spending 4 at Furman. Now off to Colorado State.
FAU hires Florida assistant Dusty May. Has spent past seven years on the staffs of Michael White - the first four at Louisiana Tech and the most recent three with the Gators.
Latest news…
Eastern Kentucky - hired NC State assistant A.W. Hamilton
Evansville - hired Boston Celtics assistant Walter McCarty
Incarnate Word - hired NAIA Carroll College (Montana) head coach Dr. Carson Cunningham
La Salle - head coach Dr. John Giannini out after 14 seasons
Longwood - hired UMBC assistant Griff Aldrich
Middle Tennessee - per HoopDirt.com, leading candidates are Xavier assistant Travis Steele, UMBC head coach Ryan Odom, and UNC Asheville head coach Nick McDevitt
Missouri State - hired Tennessee State head coach Dana Ford
It will be interesting to see how that plays out. He has never been outside the Asheville bubble (player and coach).
Is this going to be yet another year when the entire college basketball universe misses it and nobody hires LaVelle Motion? Don’t they know he knows Oprah?
Perhaps McDevitt will have better luck retaining his best players in Murfreesboro than he did in Asheville.
Interesting turn of events in the Louisville opening as the Cardinals seek to interview UofL alum and current Kentucky assistant Kenny Payne.
Gotta be a reason he can’t land a gig.
Congrats Bobby!
Latest moves…
Detroit Mercy - Bacari Alexander out after two seasons that included a seven-game suspension this year for a verbal altercation with a player as well as a record number of losses in one season (24) for a program playing since 1905
Maryland Eastern Shore - Bobby Collins fired after four seasons
Tennessee State - hired Illinois State assistant Penny Collins, who played basketball in Nashville at Belmont and was head coach at nearby Columbia State Community College
UT Arlington - alum Scott Cross dismissed after 12 years (as well as the previous 8 as an assistant). Winningest all-time UTA head coach (225-161) as well as single season record for wins (27) in 2016-17. Something of a head scratcher as the past three years were 20+ winning seasons and an overall 72-33. Hmm…
Utah State - hired South Dakota head coach Craig Smith. Tim Miles protege who was also a candidate for the Colorado State opening, where Smith served four seasons as an assistant before following Miles to Nebraska prior to landing at USD