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Pitino to announce [insert hyperbole] this afternoon
From C.L. Brown's blog (Charlie Strong's 4th favorite): U of L will have a press conference Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. to announce a pair of assistant men's basketball coaching hires, but the third assistant coach won't be revealed just yet. As expected, Richard Pitino will rejoin his father's staff...
N.C. State Hires Mark Gottfried, Rest Of Conference Collectively Yawns
Up until today, N.C. State had been seemingly spurned from all corners of the college basketball coaching universe. The Wolfpack -- trying to fill its vacant men's basketball head coaching position -- were turned down by major conference coaches like Arizona's Sean Miller and mid-major coaches like...
ACC Hoops "Down Year" Pegged To Coaching Tenure?
Remember all the talk this past season of the ACC basketball being in a down year? Well, consider for a moment the coaching tenure of the 12 men's basketball coaches in the conference. With Miami's Frank Haith leaving Miami for Mizzou, Boston College coach Steve Donahue is now the seventh most...
Final Four Open Thread
And then, finally, there were 4. The NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four begins tonight. Two surprising mid-majors and then two traditional powerhouses will meet this evening in Houston, and the respective winners will move on to the National Championship game Monday night for a chance at their One...
Calipari to Kentucky -- and, um, Someone to Georgia. Eventually. We think.
The Gross Domestic Product of Kentucky -- all $38 of it -- has been saved, with John Calipari set to be unveiled today as the new Wildcats coach. (Though wouldn't it be funny if he looked at the date and decided ... never mind.) The deal is worth close to $4 million per, so expect rival fans to...
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