The Villanova Wildcats are national champions after Kris Jenkins (6'6''-F-93) swished a 3-pointer at the buzzer to beat North Carolina 77-74 in one of the great NCAA title games of all time. North Carolina's Marcus Paige (6'1''-PG-93) had just tied it for the Tar Heels when he adjusted in the air and rattled home a game-tying 3-pointer with 4.7 seconds left to make it 74-all. For Villanova, it is its first national title since 1985, when the Wildcats shocked Georgetown. At the half it was North Carolina 39, Villanova 34. The crowd at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas was announced at 74,340 - the second largest in NCAA tournament final history. Carolina coach Roy Williams was looking for his third national championship with the Tar Heels and the school's sixth overall, but just couldn't make it happen. In the semifinals, Villanova shocked the hoops world with a 95-51 dissecting of Oklahoma. The Wildcats set a record for margin of victory in a Final Four game. They held Oklahoma's Buddy Hield (6'4''-G-93) to just nine points. The Carolina-Syracuse semifinal game was never really in doubt as the Tar Heels won 83-66. The victory for the Tar Heels was their third this season over the Orange. Phil Booth (6'3''-G-95) led Villanova with 20 points. Jenkins finished with 14. Paige had 21 for the Heels (33-7) who came one shot short of giving coach Roy Williams his third national title. Courtesy of: fox61.com
Utah State Transfer Koby McEwen Chooses Marquette - 2 days ago
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As reported by ESPN's Jeff Goodman on Sunday night, former Utah State point guard Koby McEwen (6'4''-G-97) will be a Golden Eagle. This is the second transfer that Marquette Golden Eagles head coach Steve Wojciechowski has reeled in this week with the primary assist going to associate head coach Brett Nelson, as Joseph Chartouny, a grad transfer from Fordham who will be able to play in 2018-19 committed to MU on Friday. Unlike Chartouny, McEwen will have to sit out a year, as traditional... [read more]
As reported by ESPN's Jeff Goodman on Sunday night, former Utah State point guard Koby McEwen (6'4''-G-97) will be a Golden Eagle. This is the second transfer that Marquette Golden Eagles head coach Steve Wojciechowski has reeled in this week with the primary assist going to associate head coach Brett Nelson, as Joseph Chartouny, a grad transfer from Fordham who will be able to play in 2018-19 committed to MU on Friday. Unlike Chartouny, McEwen will have to sit out a year, as traditional transfer rules dictate, although he will be able to play two seasons once he is eligible. McEwen shares more than just the designation of 'transfer student' with Chartouny. Both hail from the 51st state also known as Canada, and more importantly to what Wojo is trying to do with the roster, Mr. McEwen also has an impressive frame as a guard, standing at 6'4' and weighing in at 200 pounds. A plethora of schools, including Creighton, Ohio State, Oregon, Iowa State, Tennessee, and Grand Canyon had reached out to McEwen before he did the right thing and comitted to Marquette. This is obviously a big deal for Marquette as he should be expected to fill the shoes of Joseph Chartouny in the MU backcourt once McEwen is eligible in 2019-20. In his two years at Utah State, McEwen racked up some pretty impressive awards as he was the Mountain West Conference Newcomer of the year in 2016-17 as a freshman and third-team all-conference this past season. McEwen played mostly point guard at Utah State but with his large frame had no issue playing off the ball as well. McEwen averaged 15.6 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 3.2 assists per game as a sophomore this past season. For those who are more inclined to tempo-free stats McEwen had an offensive rating of 96.9 (ni.ce), a defensive rebounding rate of 18.5% which translates to 367th in the country and is incredibly high for a point guard, and an assist rate of 20.6% which was good for 378th in the country. McEwen did most of his damage using his large frame as a slasher, finishing around the rim or getting to the line, which he did a lot in his two seasons at Utah State. McEwen will have plenty to work on during his re-shirt season. A turnover rate of nearly 20% in both years at Utah State is something that really hampered his offensive rating and is a major no-no in Marquette's high-octane offense, so I would imagine he will be putting in a lot of ballhandling work. However, the main concern with McEwen is his defense which has been a bit of an anomoly, his freshman year he was one of the better pick-and-roll defender in the country (86th percentile), however last season he dropped to the fifth percentile (thanks Paint Touches for that info). However, considering that defense is a communal part of the game and McEwen was not exactly surrounded with loads of talent at Utah State, I hope he will be able to regain his defensive form during his year off considering he will spend a considerable amount of time in practice defending the trio of Chartouny, Markus Howard, and Greg Elliott. Speaking of regaining form, it would be great for McEwen to revert to his freshman form and shoot 42% from three again rather than the paltry 32% he shot this year. Again, I expect this to improve as he will not have to shoulder nearly the load he did at Utah State as Howard and Sam Hauser will both be seniors when McEwen finishes up his redshirt season. Overall, Marquette nabbed another high quality player with a massive upside for the 2019-20 and 2020-21 teams. With great size and build for a high-major point guard and the proven ability to score, McEwen should be a critical piece for what should be a very good Marquette team with only Matt Heldt and Joseph Chartouny projected as departures. Courtesy of: anonymouseagle.com
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College basketball is almost done filling its coaching vacancies around the sport.
The only jobs yet to be taken: Chicago State, Delaware State, Detroit and Siena. The Siena gig opened last Friday after Jimmy Patsos handed in his resignation amid controversy.
There have been 52 openings among Division I programs from last season. Below is the entire list of changes, the majority of which have come from mid- and low-major conferences [read more]
Courtesy of cbssports.com College basketball is almost done filling its coaching vacancies around the sport. The only jobs yet to be taken: Chicago State, Delaware State, Detroit and Siena. The Siena gig opened last Friday after Jimmy Patsos handed in his resignation amid controversy.
There have been 52 openings among Division I programs from last season. Below is the entire list of changes, the majority of which have come from mid- and low-major conferences. Only eight schools from Major 7 conferences (Louisville, Xavier, UConn, Pitt, Memphis, Georgia, Ole Miss and East Carolina) had changeover this spring. Of those eight, Louisville is considered a top-10 job, while Xavier, Memphis and UConn fall in the top-30 range in the eyes of many coaches in the industry. College basketball 2018 coaching carousel
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Rick Pitino Chris Mack At 22-14, interim coach David Padgett did a solid job this season, and he should get a head-coaching chance soon. But he wasn't getting this prestige job full-time on that basis. Mack, 48, is in the prime of his career and could be setting himself up for Final Four runs. Mack was 212-96 at Xavier and is coming off a 29-6 season. What's still undecided: The NCAA's still-to-come clean-up of the FBI investigation, and whether it brings sanctions. (The timeline on that is unknown.)
Chris Mack Travis Steele Mack joins Pete Gillen, Skip Prosser, Thad Matta and Sean Miller as Xavier coaches to eventually leave for better jobs. AD Greg Christopher made the decision to promote from within after interviewing a lot of candidates. Now the question becomes whether Xavier can keep its pace in a top-three league.
Kevin Ollie Dan Hurley Ollie leaves four years after a national championship, with a swirl of NCAA questions on his name. UConn is working to try to fire him for just cause, with $9 million and a possible court case in the balance. But the Huskies got their guy. Hurley will be tasked with a tall order: return UConn to national prominence and get it competing for Final Fours often. It will not be easy. Hurley is built for the grind, though, and he's got a shot at putting the Huskies back in a good spot.
Kevin Stallings Jeff Capel Pitt went out and landed the most high-profile assistant coach in the game, Capel from Duke. Now he has the chance to prove he should be the one to replace Mike Krzyzewski at Duke -- or to build something all his own at Pitt. It's still to be determined whether Pitt will have to pay Stallings $9.4 million, but that hiring decision (and the decision to give Jamie Dixon an easy out) goes down with the worst in college basketball history.
Tubby Smith Penny Hardaway Hardaway, 46, brings with him a revival of hope for the school. He spent recent seasons coaching high school and grassroots basketball. James Wiseman, the best player in the class of 2019, played for Hardaway. It remains to be seen if Hardaway will thrive as a college coach, but what's for certain is he will be given much more slack than Smith was afforded. The former Kentucky coach was fired after two seasons because of poor performance and even worse attendance.
Mark Fox Tom Crean The Bulldogs made the NCAA Tournament twice in Fox's nine seasons. Crean has a more proven background: He's been to the Big Dance nine times at Marquette and Indiana, reaching the 2003 Final Four with Dwyane Wade. The hire puts Georgia in a position where it will try to get to the top of the SEC with a veteran coach who's been in major-conference college basketball for decades.
Andy Kennedy Kermit Davis Kennedy lasted 12 seasons in Oxford, with a 245-156 record and two NCAA Tournament appearances. Davis spent the past 16 seasons at Middle Tennessee, making the NCAA Tournament three times in the past six years. I think this is going to work out for both the school and the Leakesville, Miss., native.
Dan Hurley David Cox In speaking with Hurley in the days before he decided on UConn, it was clear this was a tough decision for him. Rams AD Thorr Bjorn offered him a big raise and the promise of improved facilities. With Hurley gone, Cox has been given a five-year, $700,000 annually contract with the goal of keeping URI near the top of the Atlantic 10.
Larry Eustachy Niko Medved Eustachy resigned from Colorado State on Feb. 26, following being placed on administrative leave for an investigation into how he treated his players. Medved takes the job after just one year at Drake. He spent four years at Furman as the head coach prior to that. Medved got the Furman job after leaving Colorado State as an assistant under Eustachy, and prior to that, working for Tim Miles when Miles was at CSU.
Paul Lusk Dana Ford Many who do work or have worked in the Valley consider Missouri State a top-two job in the conference now, but Lusk averaged only 15 wins a year in his seven-season stint. Ford did well for himself at Tennessee State and now is on his Division I second job at 33 years old.
Jeff Lebo Joe Dooley Despite Lebo's early-season resignation, the Pirates end up bringing back Dooley. He was head coach at ECU from 1995 to 1999, going 57-52 for the CAA. (He was last at Florida-Gulf Coast.) Now, this is a bottom-tier AAC job. Take a scan of every program in the seven major conferences, and the only schools that might compete with ECU right now in terms of desperate need of a complete overhaul in identity and personnel are Washington State and Pitt.
John Giannini Ashley Howard The doctor took La Salle to an unexpected Sweet 16 run in 2013, but it was a rough stretch since. La Salle won just 69 games in the five ensuing years. In comes former Villanova assistant Ashley Howard, who obviously has Philadelphia ties and is well-prepped for a gig like this. The Explorers nailed their replacement for Giannini.
Kermit Davis Nick McDevitt Replacing Davis won't be easy after 16 seasons at the helm and recent success. Middle Tennessee tapped a couple of other candidates who passed on the job, but McDevitt is a really good hire. He did a lot with a little at UNC Asheville, winning 66 games the past three seasons despite losing transfers to high-major programs. The soon-to-be-39-year-old has the acumen to keep the Blue Raiders competing at the top of C-USA.
Tim Duryea Craig Smith A 16-win average at Utah State over the past three seasons led to an unexpected firing of Duryea, who was coaching in the shadows of the retired Stew Morrill. Smith spent the past three seasons at South Dakota, and he knows the area, having also worked at Nebraska and Colorado State as an assistant. A lot of promise here.
Tim Floyd Rodney Terry Floyd abruptly retired at UTEP after a 1-5 start, having never taken the program to the NCAA Tournament in seven seasons. Terry leaves Fresno State for the job and has familiarity with Texas recruiting. Still, this job is one of the toughest in Conference USA.
Lamont Smith Sam Scholl On March 7, Smith resigned from his San Diego, his alma mater, after three seasons because he was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence. He was never charged, and legally, the matter is closed. However, his exit opened up a spot for Scholl to take over at his alma mater. He's been coaching in the West Coast Conference for 18 years and was Smith's assistant. Smith went to UTEP as the top assistant for Rodney Terry.
Mark Price Ron Sanchez Price was fired from Charlotte in December. Sanchez is a long-time Tony Bennett assistant getting his shot to run his own program. No one's quite certain how successful Bennett's coaches will wind up being, but they deserve a chance. Sanchez is well-equipped for the job, and he comes from a staff with a sterling reputation for doing things above board. Charlotte at one point was a top-50 program, but that was two decades ago now.
Reggie Theus Mark Gottfried From one big name to another for Cal State Northridge. Theus could not find success in the Big West, bottoming out after five seasons with a 6-24 record. The former NBA player and coach went 53-105 at Northridge. Though he had some success at Alabama and NC Sate, Gottfried left behind a situation at NC State that wound up having the Department of Justice poking around the men's basketball program. The school has commented that it's comfortable with the knowledge it has of Gottfried's time at NCSU.
Marty Wilson Lorenzo Romar The Pepperdine Waves went 6-26 this season and haven't reached the NCAA Tournament since 2002 under Paul Westphal. Romar, the former longtime Washington coach, will move from his one-year gig as associated head coach at Arizona and stay on the West Coast. Romar, with a top-level mid-major staff, might put Pepperdine in position to compete for the league title within three years.
Joe Dooley Michael Fly Florida Gulf Coast: It is all too perfect that a school nicknamed Dunk City now has a coach named Fly. Like many guys on this list, he's being promoted up after serving as associate head coach. He helped Dooley make the postseason in each of his five seasons at the helm.
Niko Medved Darren DeVries A year after hiring Medved, Drake had to find a new coach. But they get a ton of Missouri Valley Conference knowledge with DeVries, a 17-year assistant at Creighton who also played at Northern Iowa.
Marty Simmons Walter McCarty Simmons spent 11 seasons at Evansville, a Missouri Valley Conference school, without making the NCAA Tournament even once. McCarty, the Boston Celtics assistant and former longtime NBA player, who is from Evansville, makes for an interesting non-traditional hire. The 44-year-old former NBA player and Kentucky alumnus spent time as an assistant under Rick Pitino from 2007-2010.
Bob Walsh Richard Barron What's happening at Maine is a rarity on a couple of fronts. For one, Barron is the former women's coach at Maine. He is taking over the men's program after a medical leave of absence caused him to step away from the women's team previously. Also, it's rare to see a program have its head coach step down -- and then announce that coach's replacement, who was not on the staff, within a matter of hours. Maine is on a slim-pickings, tight budget and is one of the toughest jobs in college basketball, which contributed to Walsh deciding not to pursue an extension.
Rodney Terry Justin Hutson Terry kept Fresno State competitive in its move to the Mountain West but only made the NCAA Tournament once in seven seasons. Hutson heads north from San Diego State, where he was instrumental in Kawhi Leonard's recruitment to the Aztecs.
Bacari Alexander
After just two years, Alexander is gone at Detroit. He did have a disciplinary issue earlier this season that led to him be suspended for seven games due to a reported verbal altercation with one of his players. Alexander won 16 games in two seasons at his alma mater.
Dan McHale A.W. Hamilton The Eastern Kentucky job gets filled by Hamilton, a Kentucky native who ran the highly respected Hargrave Military Academy program from 2011 until taking an assistant spot under NC State's Kevin Keatts last season. McHale went 38-55 over three seasons, and his dismissal surprised some in the industry.
Matthew Graves Richie Riley Graves is a Brad Stevens disciple, but he went 65-96 at South Alabama. Riley heads east after success at Nicholls State with the goal of getting USA to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2008.
G.G. Smith Tavaras Hardy Loyola of Maryland's program was never above .500 overall or in league play under Smith. Hardy has been building up toward a head-coaching job for years, a former Northwestern player who made his name as an assistant at Georgetown and Georgia Tech.
Scott Cross Chris Ogden On its surface, the most surprising firing in college basketball this season came at UT-Arlington. Cross won 72 games the past three seasons. If the firing was purely out of a motivation to spark the program to an NCAA Tournament appearance, and nothing untoward went down, then Cross won't have to wait long to get another head coaching job. Ogden is Texas through and through. He was a longtime assistant at Texas under Rick Barnes; he was a Mr. Basketball of Texas in 1999 and went on to play at UT. He was on staff the past two seasons at Texas Tech with Chris Beard.
Craig Smith Todd Lee Lee is an alumnus who was at Grand Canyon for five years. He now inherits a program at South Dakota that has risen from joining Division I in 2009 to being near the top of the Summit League. Can he continue to compete with South Dakota State?
Michael Curry Dusty May May, a Mike White assistant at Florida and Louisiana Tech, gets hired by new FAU AD Brian White, Mike's brother. He joins Lane Kiffin in the FAU ranks and is well-equipped to handle this job after Curry totaled 39 wins in four seasons.
Jimmy Patsos
Patsos resigned April 13 after reports -- with allegations he denied -- that he verbally abused a team manager, in addition to other issues. Patsos was at Siena for five years.
Mike Maker John Dunne Marist was operating on a thin budget, but Maker's four-year run didn't meet its standards. Dunne gets a fresh start after leaving Saint Peter's in a shocking hire. Dunne also moves to a program that can pay all three of his assistants, which wasn't the case at Saint Peter's.
Tim O'Shea Jared Grasso O'Shea helped Bryant transition to Division I in his decade at the helm, but a 3-28 season put an end to that run. Grasso is a very good recruiter within his interesting offensive system and could be a rising star if he pulls it off at Bryant.
Larry Hunter Mark Prosser The son of the late Skip Prosser heads from a successful six-year run as a Winthrop assistant to this program in Cullowhee, N.C. Hunter spent 13 seasons at Western Carolina but leaves behind a depleted roster.
Scott Cherry Tubby Smith Smith, 66, takes on his seventh Division I head-coaching job, which appears to be a record. This is also his alma mater. High Point will be a bit different for him, though, as a significant step down in level of play from his previous stops: High Point is the lowest in the rankings of all his former gigs: Tulsa, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Texas Tech, Memphis.
Wes Flanigan Darrell Walker Two years after Chris Beard won an NCAA Tournament game (and went to Texas Tech), the Little Rock was in search of a new coach again. Flanigan went 22-42, and clearly the leash was short. He is replaced by Walker, a 10-year veteran who played with Michael Jordan, Moses Malone, Patrick Ewing, Isiah Thomas and Bernard King.
Dennis Cutts David Patrick Patrick was associate head coach at TCU last season and brought Ben Simmons to LSU before. He played pro in Australia, England and Spain and has spent time around four programs. He now takes on a UC Riverside program that has never reached the NCAA Tournament.
David Simmons Heath Schroyer McNeese State. Simmons lasted 12 seasons at one of the toughest jobs in the Southland Conference. Schoyer, hired off BYU's staff, has been a head coach at Portland State, Wyoming and Tennessee-Martin.
Anthony Evans Jeremy Ballard Remember that Norfolk State team that upset Missouri as a 15 seed in the 2013 NCAA Tournament? That team was coached by Evans. He parlayed that big win into the FIU job, but Evans went 65-94 overall and 33-56 in C-USA in five years. He's replaced by Ballard, who is the latest in a long line of former VCU assistants to earn head-coaching jobs.
Nick McDevitt Mike Morell UNC Asheville. A quality gig in the Big South, and from a quality of life standpoint, among the cushiest mid-major jobs in the Eastern time zone. Texas assistant Mike Morell takes over. He's young, hungry and capable. Morell will burn the candle at both ends.
John Dunne Shaheen Holloway The Saint Peter's Peacocks' gig is not an easy one within the MAAC. Dunne got out after 12 seasons and one NCAA Tournament (2011). After a 14-18 year, it was a savvy move to head to Marist. Holloway is taking over after 11 years working with Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard. The hire has received praise within the industry.
Kyle Perry Dave Dickerson USC Upstate is moving into the Big South and simultaneously dismissed Perry and AD Julio Freire. Dickerson was a Thad Matta assistant who spent last season out of the game, but he coached Tulane and is a South Carolina native.
Dana Ford Penny Collins Collins, 34, is taking on his first head coaching gig at the D-I level. He will try to do what Ford did at Tennessee State. He previously ran Columbia State's junior college program from 2012-15. The Nashville native, who played for Belmont, returns to his home city to coach the Tigers after Ford left to go to Missouri State.
Richie Riley Austin Claunch Claunch, 28, was on Riley's staff and promoted after they helped raise the profile of the team and Riley went to South Alabama. Nicholls State now has the youngest coach in Division I basketball.
Jayson Gee Griff Aldrich Aldrich took the Longwood job after helping UMBC beat Virginia in the tournament. But before that, he spent 16 years outside basketball, working at an international law firm and spent time living in London. He also ran an AAU team that featured DeAndre Jordan. Intriguing hire to replace Gee, who spent five years at the helm and never won more than 11 games.
Ken Burmeister Carson Cunningham Incarnate Word is still adjusting to Division I. Burmeister guided the program through transition but had his worst season. Cunningham played at Purdue and most recently coached at the NAIA level, going 107-52 in five seasons. Cunningham, who has a doctorate, has also written five books.
Keith Walker
The Delaware State Hornets ranked 350th out of 351 teams at KenPom this season. Walker lasted four seasons as a head coach in the MEAC. The program last made the NCAA Tournament in 2005.
Bobby Collins Clifford Reed Can't ever remember a coach facing what Reed will at Maryland-Eastern Shore. He was promoted from within, after Collins' firing, and will be the interim coach for at least the next 10 months. UMES is hiring a new president this summer, so no long-term decisions on a men's basketball coach will be made before then.
Tracy Dildy
It was time. Dildy won only 55 games in eight seasons. Chicago State is struggling -- to say the least -- to field a program suitable for Division I competition. Two coaches told CBS Sports earlier this year that this is school is viewed as being in the worst position in college basketball.
Morris Scott Sean Woods The Southern Jaguars swapped coaches after a year. Morris Scott is out following a 15-18 season, and Sean Woods, who lost his job as head coach at Morehead State after multiple allegations from his players of abusive behavior, gets a chance at repairing his name.
Marquette lands graduate transfer guard Joseph Chartouny from Fordham - 4 days ago
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The Marquette men's basketball team landed some immediate help for its backcourt on Friday. Coach Steve Wojciechowski secured a commitment from Fordham graduate transfer guard Joseph Chartouny (6'3''-G-94). He is eligible to play next season. The 6-foot-3, 205-pound native of Montreal will help bolster a Golden Eagles backcourt that lost Andrew Rowsey to graduation. Chartouny was a three-year starter with the Rams, averaging 11.9 points, 5.2 assists, 5 rebounds and 2.9 steals per game. As... [read more]
The Marquette men's basketball team landed some immediate help for its backcourt on Friday. Coach Steve Wojciechowski secured a commitment from Fordham graduate transfer guard Joseph Chartouny (6'3''-G-94). He is eligible to play next season. The 6-foot-3, 205-pound native of Montreal will help bolster a Golden Eagles backcourt that lost Andrew Rowsey to graduation. Chartouny was a three-year starter with the Rams, averaging 11.9 points, 5.2 assists, 5 rebounds and 2.9 steals per game. As a sophomore in 2016-'17, Chartouny was third in the NCAA at 3.2 steals per game. Adding his size and defensive ability should make a big difference for MU, which often found itself in mismatches last season by playing two undersized guards in Rowsey and Markus Howard. The Golden Eagles have one open scholarship slot next season and are in the mix for several other transfers. Courtesy of: jsonline.com
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