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Apr 15, 2021 The Derek Chauvin trial currently playing out in Minnesota serves as context for what got us here, to a place of small progress in college basketball. The sports world cannot fix serious societal issues, but it can react to them, and the death of George Floyd beneath the knee of a white cop, among other traumatic events in the spring of 2020, spawned a reckoning on U.S. college campuses. In one corner, at least, an embarrassment is being addressed. Black men’s basketball coaches are being hired at a significant rate. Athletes spoke up. Athletes marched. Athletes voted. College...

Arizona Basketball Coaching Hot Board 2.0 Arizona has made the decision to part ways with head basketball coach Sean Miller and will now look to hire a new coach. The hiring comes at a unique time because of the IARP and the fact that nobody knows what the future will hold.  The Arizona administration will have to navigate the results of the IARP that are likely coming next summer, firing of Miller, and hiring of a new coach. The public eye will likely be on the hire because of how everything has gone down and Arizona will have to convince a new coach that the punishment will not take away f...

A Jersey Guy: A Plan To Revive BC Hoops BC's basketball future is linked with to the hire of their next basketball coach, will they get it right? Author: Mar 11, 2021 BC's basketball future is linked with to the hire of their next basketball coach, will they get it right? In what may be the most important move in the history of Boston College basketball, BC athletic director Patrick Kraft has received one clear message from the small core of Eagle basketball fans: "You've got to get this one right.'' As Kraft and his inner circle hold their daily war room, zoom meetings in a suite at Conte Fo...

"That incident, we've moved on from it," Nichols said. "We don't even speak about it." Nichols, who was brought on as an assistant during the 2017-18 season, has stepped in as the Lions' interim coach. The 1995 Roosevelt graduate shares a close relationship with Moore, and even though his "brother" can't be on the sidelines with him, Nichols has vowed to do everything he can to steer the team in the right direction. So far, so good. More than 12,000 Hoosiers have died from COVID-19 since March 2020. There are real names, faces and human stories behind that staggering number. This Sunday, The ...

A Jersey Guy: BC Focusing On Schmidt, But Is It Real? Boston College coaching search continues to take strange twists. Author: Boston College coaching search continues to take strange twists. The interview process for finding a new men's basketball coach at Boston College is set to begin, most likely thru zoom calls, but in typical BC fashion there are more than a few facets involved. According to sources familiar with the process, Boston College athletic director Pat Kraft is set to interview St. Bonaventure head coach Mark Schmidt early next week. In a normal search cycle, this would make s...