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The Carousel keeps giving: Driscoll leaving North Florida. Though that interim coach is in for the season, so only kinda open.

 

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Down-ballot note of local interest: Tobe Carberry is headed back to Yale as an assistant. Spot opened up when Justin Simon got the Carnegie Mellon job. Or maybe there was already a spot opened up. Either way.

Daily Dirt - 5/28/25 - HoopDirt

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) SHSU Associate Head Coach Set for Administrative Role at Indiana Sam Houston State associate head coach Justin Bailey announced on social media last night that he is on the move. I have heard that he will land in an administrative role at Indiana, most likely as...

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Carousel! I have to think "during the transition" means "until we do a real search next spring."

 

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Filed under "Names We Know": Former UVM assistant Bryson Johnson is a reported finalist at Colby.

Daily Dirt - 7/1/25 - HoopDirt

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) Longtime Northeastern Staffer Retiring After Six Decades in the Game Northeastern Coordinator of Basketball Advancement Tom Murphy is retiring after more than 60 years in college basketball. The long-time head coach at Hamilton (1970-2004), had been on Bill...

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Colby has a real self-inflicted mess on its hands. Strahorn was very popular with the basketball alums, he was winning at a level Colby hadn't won in a while, it was an odd time of year, rumor has it he will be suing...

 

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New assistant coaches at Albany:

Jenkins, Burns added to UAlbany Basketball Staff - HoopDirt

Willie Jenkins and Elijah Burns have been added to the UAlbany Men’s Basketball staff. Jenkins was the associate head coach at Lehigh last season, while Burns was an assistant at LeMoyne. WILLIE JENKINS Jenkins comes to UAlbany from Lehigh University, having previously spent the past four...

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Filed under "Names We Know": Former UVM assistant Bryson Johnson is a reported finalist at Colby.

Daily Dirt - 7/1/25 - HoopDirt

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) Longtime Northeastern Staffer Retiring After Six Decades in the Game Northeastern Coordinator of Basketball Advancement Tom Murphy is retiring after more than 60 years in college basketball. The long-time head coach at Hamilton (1970-2004), had been on Bill...

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Follow Up: Bryson Johnson did not get the Colby job. Went to Belmont assistant Sean Rutigliano instead.

OFFICIAL: Rutigliano to lead Colby's Men's Basketball Program - HoopDirt

Colby College has announced that the men’s basketball program will be under the leadership of Sean Rutigliano, a dynamic leader with coaching successes at the Division I, II, and III levels and a track record for attracting and developing some of the best players in the country. Rutigliano...

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Hiring someone who played D-3 but has no NESCAC/northeast recruiting experience is not working out at Bowdoin. We'll see how Colby does.

 

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New NJIT assistant:



Also worked at St. Peter's Prep in NJ.

 

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Carousel! I have to think "during the transition" means "until we do a real search next spring."

Turns out I was mistaken. Tennessee State is on the cusp of hiring Memphis assistant/former Duke guard Nolan Smith.

 

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In your periodic Will Brown Update: his women's job at Queens College did not last long. His resignation was officially announced on Wednesday. Now it's reported he'll be the boys basketball coach and principal at Green Tech High School in Albany, a typically strong hoops program that plays in NY's largest classification.

 

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In your periodic Will Brown Update: his women's job at Queens College did not last long. His resignation was officially announced on Wednesday. Now it's reported he'll be the boys basketball coach and principal at Green Tech High School in Albany, a typically strong hoops program that plays in NY's largest classification.

Queen's was a holdover...he always wanted to be close to his family and extended family. This is a great job for him...he gets to coach, it is 20 min from his house, and he gets to manage a school. Perfect marriage...but unlikely we see a kid go to Albany from Green Tech I am kidding, he would never stop a kid from attending no matter what he feels about Mark Benson.

 

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Should probably be the first official move on the 2025-26 Carousel instead of the last one on the 2024-25 Carousel, but Billy Lange is leaving St. Joe's to go work for the Knicks. Expedited the inevitable, most likely.

 

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Should probably be the first official move on the 2025-26 Carousel instead of the last one on the 2024-25 Carousel, but Billy Lange is leaving St. Joe's to go work for the Knicks. Expedited the inevitable, most likely.

And then they turn around and immediately name Steve Donahue coach.

 

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And then they turn around and immediately name Steve Donahue coach.

Not much else they could do at this point. They were lucky to have an experienced head coach on staff. If he does well this season, can see him getting the job.

 

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Not much else they could do at this point. They were lucky to have an experienced head coach on staff. If he does well this season, can see him getting the job.

Just realized there is no "interim" before the title of head coach. So yea I guess a little surprised. I guess if you make him interim, then that basically kills the recruiting for this year.

 

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Just realized there is no "interim" before the title of head coach. So yea I guess a little surprised. I guess if you make him interim, then that basically kills the recruiting for this year.

Yeah, the reports are Donahue got a multi-year deal.

It's just amazing that there were people practically begging for Lange's ouster...only for it to come in the weirdest and worst way possible: 2 months before the season, and inking a multi-year deal with the guy who just got dumped for back-to-back 7th place finishes in the Ivy League. At Penn, of all places.

 

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And now Wofford is letting Dwight Perry go.



Which, considering today is September 12, means this is only the beginning of the story, not the end.