Coaching

UConn coach says refusal to violate protocols led to ouster

By Pat Eaton-Robb Jun. 17, 2021 05:33 PM EDT
A former strength coach for UConn's men's basketball team has sued the school, claiming his contract wasn't renewed after he refused demands from coach Dan...

FILE - Jim Phelan, head coach of the Mount St. Mary's men's NCAA college basketball team, ponders his future in his office, in this Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2003, file photo. Phelan, who won 830 games during nearly a half-century at Mount St. Mary's, has died. He was 92. The athletic department at Mount St. Mary's said Phelan died in his sleep at home Tuesday night, June 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Timothy Jacobsen, File)

Longtime Mount St. Mary's coach Jim Phelan dies at age 92

Jun. 16, 2021 12:49 PM EDT

Texas Tech adds another transfer in UTEP's Bryson Williams

Jun. 14, 2021 05:41 PM EDT
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Texas Tech added another transfer Monday in Bryson Williams, who is set to play for his third college in his fifth and final season. ...

Mike Roth to retire after 24 years as Gonzaga AD

Jun. 07, 2021 09:46 PM EDT
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Gonzaga athletic director Mike Roth said Monday he will retire on Aug. 31, ending a 24-year run during which the Bulldogs had...

Tom Izzo promotes Wojcik, hires 3 ex-Michigan State players

Jun. 07, 2021 01:10 PM EDT
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo has promoted Doug Wojcik to assistant coach, replacing Dane Fife. Izzo...

Marshall AD Mike Hamrick moving into new role at school

Jun. 04, 2021 04:54 PM EDT
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Marshall athletic director Mike Hamrick is stepping down at the end of the month to take on a new role at the school. ...

Jon Scheyer center, laughs while talking with Wendell Moore Jr. after an NCAA college basketball press conference at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C., Friday, June 4, 2021. Scheyer will spend the upcoming year in his role as associate head coach as coach Mike Krzyzewski chases one more championship in a Hall of Fame career. Then it’s up to the 33-year-old Scheyer to take over ahead of the 2022-23 season in the program’s first coaching change in more than four decades. (Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP)

Duke's Scheyer 'not afraid' of test as Coach K's successor

By Aaron Beard Jun. 04, 2021 01:05 PM EDT

Appeals court upholds guilty verdicts in NCAA bribes case

By Larry Neumeister Jun. 04, 2021 11:48 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — The convictions of a sports business manager and an amateur basketball coach in a conspiracy to bribe top college coaches to get them to steer...

Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski speaks during an NCAA college basketball news conference Thursday, June 3, 2021, at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. Krzyzewski, the winningest coach in the history of Division I men's college basketball announced that next season will be his last with the Blue Devils program he has built into one of college basketball’s bluebloods. The school named former Duke player and associate head coach Jon Scheyer as his successor for the 2022-23 season. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP)

Analysis: Coach K's legacy built on ability to reach players

By Aaron Beard Jun. 04, 2021 02:54 AM EDT

Duke's Krzyzewski eager for a final run with the Blue Devils

By Aaron Beard Jun. 03, 2021 12:27 PM EDT

FILE- In this Feb. 22, 2009, file photo, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski congratulates Jon Scheyer (30) late in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Wake Forest in Durham, N.C. Duke Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski will coach his final season with the Blue Devils in 2021-22, a person familiar with the situation said Wednesday, June 2, 2021. The person said former Duke player and associate head coach Jon Scheyer would then take over as Krzyzewski's successor for the 2022-23 season. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Duke's Krzyzewski to coach 1 final year, hand off to Scheyer

By Aaron Beard Jun. 02, 2021 01:43 PM EDT

Person familiar with situation tells AP that Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski will coach his final basketball season in 2021-22

Jun. 02, 2021 01:42 PM EDT
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Person familiar with situation tells AP that Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski will coach his final basketball season in 2021-22. ...

Wake Forest hires former ETSU coach Shay as assistant

Jun. 01, 2021 07:37 PM EDT
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Wake Forest has hired former East Tennessee State head coach Jason Shay as an assistant. The school announced...

FILE - Kent State head coach Rob Senderoff calls a play during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Buffalo in Kent, Ohio, in this Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, file photo. Kent State signed coach Rob Senderoff to a contract extension through the 2025-26 season. "We are thrilled to extend the contract of Coach Senderoff,” new athletic director Randale Richmond said Tuesday, June 1, 2021. (AP Photo/David Dermer, File)

Kent State gives coach Senderoff contract extension thru '26

Jun. 01, 2021 01:06 PM EDT

Florida adds FAU's Miskdeen, rounds out revamped hoops staff

May. 29, 2021 03:00 PM EDT
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida basketball coach Mike White filled the second of two staff vacancies by hiring Akeem Miskdeen on Saturday. ...

UConn head coach Jim Penders congratulates Michael Woodworth (8) as he rounds the bases in the eighth inning of an NCAA college baseball game against Tulane in Hartford, Conn., in this April 27, 2018, photo. Penders, the nephew of former college hoops coach Tom Penders, credits Connecticut's basketball programs and their combined 15 national titles, with creating an athletics culture that has helped him recruit top players to Storrs and convince officials to build his team's just opened state-of-the art Elliot Ballpark, which comes complete with an artificial turf field and heated benches. (John Woike/Hartford Courant via AP)

Basketball-centric UConn proving it's also a baseball school

By Pat Eaton-Robb May. 26, 2021 11:31 AM EDT

Huskers' Hoiberg hires Shannan Lum as recruiting coordinator

May. 24, 2021 03:04 PM EDT
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Shannan Lum has been hired as recruiting coordinator for the Nebraska men's basketball program, coach Fred Hoiberg announced Monday. ...

FILE - Gonzaga assistant coach Donny Daniels, left, and director of basketball operations Stephen Gentry speak before an NCAA college basketball game against Texas-Arlington in Spokane, Wash., in this Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018, file photo. Former Gonzaga player and former Gonzaga director of operations Stephen Gentry was hired Monday, May 24, 2021, as an assistant basketball coach to replace Tommy Lloyd, who left the Bulldogs to become the head coach at Arizona. Gentry was most recently an assistant coach at Illinois. (AP Photo/Young Kwak, File)

Gonzaga hires Stephen Gentry as assistant basketball coach

May. 24, 2021 02:49 PM EDT

Florida adds Oklahoma State's Erik Pastrana to hoops staff

May. 24, 2021 09:44 AM EDT
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida coach Mike White added Oklahoma State assistant Erik Pastrana to his staff Monday. Pastrana spent the past...