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HOT: Watts resigns at Jacksonville State

Annette Watts has resigned as women’s basketball coach at Jacksonville State University to pursue other opportunities, athletics director Warren Koegel announced Tuesday afternoon. Watts spent three seasons at Jacksonville State, joining the Gamecocks in May of 2010, after spending nine years at Davidson. She was the program’s winningest coach at Davidson and has a career

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Daily Dirt – 6/3/13

Some "dirt" to kick-off the week… • From a good source…former Princeton star Addie Micir will be named as an assistant at Dartmouth. She graduated from Princeton in 2011, and has been playing professionally in Europe since then. At Princeton, the former co-captain concluded her career with 1,188 points – 10th best in program history.

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Daily Dirt – 5/30/13

A few things that I’ve heard… • I have heard from a great source that new East Tennessee State head coach Brittney Ezell will hire Nikki Davis (Morehead State) and Brittany Burkhardt (Detroit-Mercy) as assistant coaches. Davis just wrapped up her first season at MSU. She played at both Alabama and Virginia Tech. Burkhardt spent

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Adams named head coach at Howard

Howard University Director of Athletics Louis "Skip" Perkins named Tennille Adams as the new head women’s basketball coach. Adams comes to Howard with an impressive record, including an integral role in six double-figure winning seasons at Northwestern University and a notable coaching career with Big Ten, Patriot League and Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Division I institutions.

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St. Peter’s rumor

Multiple sources are reporting that Patty Coyle is the leader to become the next head coach at St. Peter’s. Coyle had spent the past three seasons as an assistant at Pitt. She was the head coach of the New York Liberty (WNBA) for five seasons before that. Coyle has also been the head coach at

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OFFICIAL: Newbauer to Belmont

Belmont University Director of Athletics Mike Strickland announced Monday the hiring of Cameron Newbauer as the fourth head women’s basketball coach in program history. "We could not be more pleased that Cameron has accepted our offer to lead our women’s basketball program," Strickland said. "Throughout this process, Cameron has exceeded our expectations in every regard.

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BREAKING: Whitaker named head coach at Texas Tech

Candace Whitaker, a two-year letterwinner at Texas Tech and the point guard for a pair of Sweet 16 teams, returns to her alma mater to become the sixth head coach in Lady Raider basketball history. Texas Tech will hold a news conference to formally introduce Coach Whitaker at 11 a.m. on Wed., May 22, in

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HOT: Black named head coach at EIU

Referencing a children’s book about herself, – Tiny, Terrific Debbie Black – Debbie Black talked about the story of a young, undersized girl achieving her dream of first playing basketball and then coaching basketball. The next chapter in that continuing life story began on Thursday afternoon as Black was hired as the sixth head women’s

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HOT RUMOR: Belmont to hire Louisville assistant

According to a great source, Belmont will hire Louisville assistant Cameron Newbauer as the next women’s basketball coach. He would replace Brittney Ezell who became the head coach at East Tennessee State in April. Newbauer spent one season as an assistant at Louisville – he worked for Andy Landers at Georgia for five seasons before

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BREAKING: Randall the choice at Alabama A&M

Alabama A&M Director of Athletics Bryan Hicks today announced the hiring of Semeka Randall as the new Head Women’s Basketball Coach. She is slated to begin her new duties effective immediately. Semeka RandallRandallMs. Randall is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2000 with a degree in Speech Communication.

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