1. Sean Woods took Mississippi Valley State to the NCAA tournament. He chased a few different jobs before landing Morehead State when Donnie Tyndall left for Southern Miss. Woods had no problems working from the ground up to climb higher in coaching.
The coaching carousel hasn’t come to a complete halt yet. But the bulk of the maneuvering has concluded. Some great moves. Some questionable hires. A few “Huh, really?” selections, too.
1. If Bruce Weber has coached his last game at Assembly Hall in Champaign then the Illini fans should find time to give him the praise he deserves for putting everything he had into the job. Weber won’t have to work after getting a $3.
College hoops doesn't totally shut down over the holiday. In fact, eight lucky teams get to spend Christmas in Hawaii, where they'll compete for top honors at the annual Diamond Head Classic. OK, OK, so this isn't quite the Maui Invitational.
Friday's Carrier Classic and Cleveland State’s upset of Vanderbilt on Sunday weren’t the only things that grabbed my attention during the first weekend of the 2011-12 campaign. Here are 10 other observations I made while tracking the season’s first few days of games.
By the end of this season, DePaul will be fully in the process of finding a new coach to replace pesky interim hire Tracy Webster and his predecessor, Jerry Wainwright. Most DePaul fans are probably hoping for someone established but with a bright future, someone who'd want to spend the prime of his life coaching high-end Big East basketball in the Midwest's greatest city.
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