Wichita State Removes Head Basketball Coach Jody Adams-Birch for Weekend Games

The Wichita State Athletic Department announced that Shocker women’s basketball assistant coach Kirk Crawford will serve as the acting head coach for the team’s games Friday and Sunday.

“In the best interests of the women’s basketball program, its student-athletes and WSU, I have asked Kirk Crawford to handle head coach duties this weekend,” WSU Director of Athletics Darron Boatright said in a statement from the athletic department. “I am carefully reviewing information recently received about the women’s basketball program before I will make any long term decisions regarding the program’s leadership.”

No further information was given. More on this story as it develops.

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