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Jun 23, 2023 · Demetrie McCray, Lincoln's Defensive Backs Coach has been elevated to Defensive Coordinator effective July 1. The 2022-23 academic year was a year full of transitions as Josh Dean served as Interim Athletic Director and Head Football Coach.
Mar 26, 2021 · None of the blue bloods of college basketball — Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina or Duke — is led by a Black coach, and just one (Kentucky under Tubby Smith) has ever employed a Black coach.
- Juwan Howard – Michigan
- Shaka Smart – Texas
- Leonard Hamilton – Florida State
- Mike Boynton – Oklahoma State
- Cuonzo Martin – Missouri
- Isaac Brown – Wichita State
- Patrick Ewing – Georgetown
- Dennis Gates – Cleveland State
- Ritchie Mckay – Liberty
- Shantay Legans – Eastern Washington
Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel’s decision to hire Juwan Howard in 2019 has come up roses in 2020-21. The former Fab Five legend has his Michigan squad sitting at 20-4, with a Big Ten regular-season title, in what was the toughest conference in the country. Michigan enters this weekend’s NCAA tournament as a No. 1 seed. Howard is also a fav...
In his sixth year as head coach of Texas, Shaka Smart has his best team. Led by three upperclassmen guards (Andrew Jones, Courtney Ramey and Matt Coleman III), the Longhorns were a top 15 team all season. They started the season 10-1 and looked like a potential No. 1 seed, but COVID-19 hit the program, including Smart. “[COVID had] a very powerful ...
Coaching successful teams is old hand for Leonard Hamilton. Hamilton’s Florida State teams have won 20 or more games in five straight seasons. He has advanced to the Sweet 16 or beyond the last two NCAA tournaments. Last season, he won the ACC regular-season title before the season came to an abrupt end. The only thing missing for Hamilton is a Fin...
Mike Boynton was far from a household name when he was named head basketball coach at Oklahoma State in 2017. “I was hired with not a whole lot of fanfare, a lot of skepticism, to be perfectly honest,” he told me. “There was some head-scratching about, ‘Does Oklahoma State care about basketball anymore? We just hired a 35-year-old Black dude from B...
Cuonzo Martin has won everywhere he’s been, so it’s no surprise that Missouri has been a problem for its opponents this year. The only surprise is that this NCAA tournament will be Mizzou and Martin’s first since 2018. But that can happen when injuries hit a team, particularly its best player. This season, Missouri is healthy and experienced, led b...
When Gregg Marshall resigned in disgrace after it was found that he had been physically and verbally abusive toward his players, Wichita State handed the reins over, on an interim basis, to a little-known, career assistant who just wanted a chance to show he could lead a team. Going into the season with Marshall at the helm, the Shockers were predi...
There was no better moment last weekend than witnessing Patrick Ewing coach Georgetown to a surprise Big East tournament championship, 49 years to the day that his mentor and former coach John Thompson Jr.took over the head-coaching job at Georgetown. Even before the Hoyas’ Big East final victory, Ewing felt the significance of what his team was ac...
After 16 years as an assistant coach, eight of those under Leonard Hamilton, Cleveland State took a chance on the young Dennis Gates in 2019. That decision paid immediate dividends, as Gates won Horizon League Coach of the Year in his first season. Despite a 7-11 record in league play, the improvement in the Vikings’ program was impossible to ignor...
Ritchie McKay has been a successful head coach for some time. He has won 58% of his games in 19 years as a head coach, including successful stints at Colorado State and New Mexico, respectively, before arriving at Liberty. In his last three years at Liberty, McKay has guided the Flames to a combined record of 82-16, with what would have been three ...
In his fourth season as head coach at Eastern Washington, Shantay Legans is making his first NCAA tournament appearance. The Eagles are 16-7, having won 13 of their last 14 games, including the Big Sky Conference championship against Montana State. This season’s NCAA berth is a bit of poetic justice, when you consider Eastern Washington won 23 game...
Dec 3, 2020 · It's 2020, yet two Power 5 conferences, the SEC and the Big 12, do not have a Black head coach. Ivan Maisel wonders why his generation, the one that was supposed to get this right,...
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Dec 14, 2023 · JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Lemar Parrish, one of the greatest players ever to suit up for the Lincoln football team, was selected for enshrinement into the Black College Football Hall of Fame.
Feb 27, 2024 · A proud alum of the historically Black college, Candia-Bailey — known as “Bonnie” to her friends — stuck a Lincoln University bumper sticker on her mom’s new car as a freshman. When she...
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Oct 31, 2022 · His résumé mostly features stops as a position coach at historically Black universities. His meandering career took him from high schools, to an NAIA job in which he presided over a staff of...
