PULLMAN – Washington State is getting into a brand new period, and never simply because this system is headed to the West Coast Convention subsequent season. The Cougars are searching for a brand new head coach to switch Kyle Smith, who bolted for the job at Stanford.
Smith left WSU in an excellent place. The Cougs made the NCAA Event for the primary time since 2008, beating Drake on Thursday earlier than falling to second-seeded Iowa State on Saturday. They completed second within the Pac-12. It was their greatest season since that 2008 marketing campaign.
However now Washington State athletic director Pat Chun and president Kirk Schulz have a call to make. Here’s a record of potential candidates they could name, in no explicit order.
An apart: It’s doable WSU hires affiliate head coach Jim Shaw, however over the past a number of seasons, he has appeared to love his area of interest as a defensive guru. An in depth good friend of Smith’s, it’s additionally doable he may comply with him to Stanford.
David Riley, Jap Washington head coach
Riley, 35, would possibly take advantage of sense geographically. Over in Cheney, Riley has guided the Eagles to 2 straight Massive Sky regular-season championships, incomes the convention’s coach of the 12 months award in each 2023 and 2024. A Seattle native and Whitworth graduate, Riley could be accepting a bump in pay and training pedigree if he took the WSU job.
Riley’s EWU groups additionally personal two wins over WSU: Within the first spherical of final season’s NIT and within the 2021-22 common season, each in Pullman. He has proven he can beat and hold with power-conference opponents, beating California in 2022 and taking a late lead on Washington just a few months in the past in Seattle.
The fourth-youngest Division I head coach this season, Riley doesn’t have a ton of head teaching expertise. He has spent his complete teaching profession at EWU, the place he labored as director of basketball operations from 2011-2014 earlier than changing into an assistant coach from 2014-2021.
Riley’s Eagles groups have dissatisfied in March, too. Because the Massive Sky Event’s high seed every of the final two years, they dropped their first recreation in each of these tournaments.
Matt Logie, Montana State head coach
Logie, who left Division II Level Loma to turn into Montana State’s head man final season, inherited a uncooked cope with the Bobcats. He took over a decimated roster, whose greatest gamers adopted former coach Danny Sprinkle to Utah State, and needed to rebuild on the fly.
He got here up aces. Logie and MSU used just a few transfers and some holdovers to seize the Massive Sky Event championship, incomes an auto-bid to the NCAA Event, the place the Sixteenth-seeded Bobcats fell to Grambling State in a play-in recreation. Nonetheless, it amounted to successful for Loge, who proved he may do two issues: Win at the next stage and rebuild a roster.
That may matter at WSU, whose gamers should mull their selections to remain or go away. Wing Jaylen Wells is contemplating going professional, which he confirmed after the staff’s loss on Saturday, and gamers like guard Myles Rice is perhaps a sizzling commodity if he considers different faculties.
The previous Whitworth head coach from 2011-2019, Logie additionally spent a while as an assistant at Lehigh, serving to that staff construct the roster that went on to beat Duke in 2012, which stands as one of many NCAA Event’s biggest upsets.
John Andrzejek, Florida assistant coach
Final summer time, Andrzejek left his assistant teaching job at WSU for an additional assistant’s job at Florida, which made the NCAA Event this season. Prior, he spent 4 seasons with the Cougs, serving to them gather a 69-61 document and a pair of NIT berths.
Andrzejek, who has by no means been a head coach, helped recruit lots of the present Cougars. He was the primary Energy 5 coach to supply Rice, an All-Pac-12 first-team choice, and he used his worldwide recruiting connections to land gamers like Mo Gueye, a 2023 NBA draft choose and all-conference first-teamer.
A pair potential roadblocks for Andrzejek’s path again to Pullman: He could be inheriting an unsure state of affairs, with WSU headed to the WCC on a two-year foundation beginning subsequent season, and WSU would want to purchase out his Florida contract, which he signed lower than a 12 months in the past. The Cougs would possibly have the ability to afford to take action, however would they be prepared to do it for somebody who has no head teaching expertise?
Dan Monson, outgoing Lengthy Seashore State head coach
Monson, whose Lengthy Seashore State staff made the NCAA Event as a 15 seed this season, was fired because the season got here to a detailed – however he coached out the 12 months. Now that the season is over, he’s a free agent, which makes him a doable candidate at WSU.
The previous Gonzaga head coach and an Idaho alumni, Monson helped the Zags attain nationwide prominence within the late Nineteen Nineties, setting what was a faculty document with 24 wins within the 1997-98 season and profitable WCC Coach of the Yr honors. In 1999, Monson led Tenth-seeded GU to the Elite Eight, dispatching Minnesota, Stanford and Florida alongside the best way, shedding to eventual champion UConn in a detailed one.
That spring, Monson ditched a brand new Gonzaga contract for the top coach job at Minnesota, the place he labored eight seasons, ultimately resigning in 2006 after a 2-5 begin.
Monson coached 17 seasons with Lengthy Seashore State, making the NCAA Event on two events and the NIT on 4, profitable the Massive West regular-season title in 4 of these seasons.
Mike Magpayo, UC Riverside head coach
Magpayo, who simply accomplished his fourth season as UC Riverside’s head coach, labored on two of Kyle Smith’s staffs, at Columbia and at San Francisco. Final season, the Highlanders got here to Pullman, the place the Cougs received an 86-49 blowout.
Magpayo might not have many connections to WSU, however he would possibly include an excellent advice from Smith, who spoke extremely of him after that recreation in December. In 4 seasons Riverside, Magpayo has collected a 68-50 document.
PULLMAN – Washington State is getting into a brand new period, and never simply because this system is headed to the West Coast Convention subsequent season. The Cougars are searching for a brand new head coach to switch Kyle Smith, who bolted for the job at Stanford.
Smith left WSU in an excellent place. The Cougs made the NCAA Event for the primary time since 2008, beating Drake on Thursday earlier than falling to second-seeded Iowa State on Saturday. They completed second within the Pac-12. It was their greatest season since that 2008 marketing campaign.
However now Washington State athletic director Pat Chun and president Kirk Schulz have a call to make. Here’s a record of potential candidates they could name, in no explicit order.
An apart: It’s doable WSU hires affiliate head coach Jim Shaw, however over the past a number of seasons, he has appeared to love his area of interest as a defensive guru. An in depth good friend of Smith’s, it’s additionally doable he may comply with him to Stanford.
David Riley, Jap Washington head coach
Riley, 35, would possibly take advantage of sense geographically. Over in Cheney, Riley has guided the Eagles to 2 straight Massive Sky regular-season championships, incomes the convention’s coach of the 12 months award in each 2023 and 2024. A Seattle native and Whitworth graduate, Riley could be accepting a bump in pay and training pedigree if he took the WSU job.
Riley’s EWU groups additionally personal two wins over WSU: Within the first spherical of final season’s NIT and within the 2021-22 common season, each in Pullman. He has proven he can beat and hold with power-conference opponents, beating California in 2022 and taking a late lead on Washington just a few months in the past in Seattle.
The fourth-youngest Division I head coach this season, Riley doesn’t have a ton of head teaching expertise. He has spent his complete teaching profession at EWU, the place he labored as director of basketball operations from 2011-2014 earlier than changing into an assistant coach from 2014-2021.
Riley’s Eagles groups have dissatisfied in March, too. Because the Massive Sky Event’s high seed every of the final two years, they dropped their first recreation in each of these tournaments.
Matt Logie, Montana State head coach
Logie, who left Division II Level Loma to turn into Montana State’s head man final season, inherited a uncooked cope with the Bobcats. He took over a decimated roster, whose greatest gamers adopted former coach Danny Sprinkle to Utah State, and needed to rebuild on the fly.
He got here up aces. Logie and MSU used just a few transfers and some holdovers to seize the Massive Sky Event championship, incomes an auto-bid to the NCAA Event, the place the Sixteenth-seeded Bobcats fell to Grambling State in a play-in recreation. Nonetheless, it amounted to successful for Loge, who proved he may do two issues: Win at the next stage and rebuild a roster.
That may matter at WSU, whose gamers should mull their selections to remain or go away. Wing Jaylen Wells is contemplating going professional, which he confirmed after the staff’s loss on Saturday, and gamers like guard Myles Rice is perhaps a sizzling commodity if he considers different faculties.
The previous Whitworth head coach from 2011-2019, Logie additionally spent a while as an assistant at Lehigh, serving to that staff construct the roster that went on to beat Duke in 2012, which stands as one of many NCAA Event’s biggest upsets.
John Andrzejek, Florida assistant coach
Final summer time, Andrzejek left his assistant teaching job at WSU for an additional assistant’s job at Florida, which made the NCAA Event this season. Prior, he spent 4 seasons with the Cougs, serving to them gather a 69-61 document and a pair of NIT berths.
Andrzejek, who has by no means been a head coach, helped recruit lots of the present Cougars. He was the primary Energy 5 coach to supply Rice, an All-Pac-12 first-team choice, and he used his worldwide recruiting connections to land gamers like Mo Gueye, a 2023 NBA draft choose and all-conference first-teamer.
A pair potential roadblocks for Andrzejek’s path again to Pullman: He could be inheriting an unsure state of affairs, with WSU headed to the WCC on a two-year foundation beginning subsequent season, and WSU would want to purchase out his Florida contract, which he signed lower than a 12 months in the past. The Cougs would possibly have the ability to afford to take action, however would they be prepared to do it for somebody who has no head teaching expertise?
Dan Monson, outgoing Lengthy Seashore State head coach
Monson, whose Lengthy Seashore State staff made the NCAA Event as a 15 seed this season, was fired because the season got here to a detailed – however he coached out the 12 months. Now that the season is over, he’s a free agent, which makes him a doable candidate at WSU.
The previous Gonzaga head coach and an Idaho alumni, Monson helped the Zags attain nationwide prominence within the late Nineteen Nineties, setting what was a faculty document with 24 wins within the 1997-98 season and profitable WCC Coach of the Yr honors. In 1999, Monson led Tenth-seeded GU to the Elite Eight, dispatching Minnesota, Stanford and Florida alongside the best way, shedding to eventual champion UConn in a detailed one.
That spring, Monson ditched a brand new Gonzaga contract for the top coach job at Minnesota, the place he labored eight seasons, ultimately resigning in 2006 after a 2-5 begin.
Monson coached 17 seasons with Lengthy Seashore State, making the NCAA Event on two events and the NIT on 4, profitable the Massive West regular-season title in 4 of these seasons.
Mike Magpayo, UC Riverside head coach
Magpayo, who simply accomplished his fourth season as UC Riverside’s head coach, labored on two of Kyle Smith’s staffs, at Columbia and at San Francisco. Final season, the Highlanders got here to Pullman, the place the Cougs received an 86-49 blowout.
Magpayo might not have many connections to WSU, however he would possibly include an excellent advice from Smith, who spoke extremely of him after that recreation in December. In 4 seasons Riverside, Magpayo has collected a 68-50 document.
PULLMAN – Washington State is getting into a brand new period, and never simply because this system is headed to the West Coast Convention subsequent season. The Cougars are searching for a brand new head coach to switch Kyle Smith, who bolted for the job at Stanford.
Smith left WSU in an excellent place. The Cougs made the NCAA Event for the primary time since 2008, beating Drake on Thursday earlier than falling to second-seeded Iowa State on Saturday. They completed second within the Pac-12. It was their greatest season since that 2008 marketing campaign.
However now Washington State athletic director Pat Chun and president Kirk Schulz have a call to make. Here’s a record of potential candidates they could name, in no explicit order.
An apart: It’s doable WSU hires affiliate head coach Jim Shaw, however over the past a number of seasons, he has appeared to love his area of interest as a defensive guru. An in depth good friend of Smith’s, it’s additionally doable he may comply with him to Stanford.
David Riley, Jap Washington head coach
Riley, 35, would possibly take advantage of sense geographically. Over in Cheney, Riley has guided the Eagles to 2 straight Massive Sky regular-season championships, incomes the convention’s coach of the 12 months award in each 2023 and 2024. A Seattle native and Whitworth graduate, Riley could be accepting a bump in pay and training pedigree if he took the WSU job.
Riley’s EWU groups additionally personal two wins over WSU: Within the first spherical of final season’s NIT and within the 2021-22 common season, each in Pullman. He has proven he can beat and hold with power-conference opponents, beating California in 2022 and taking a late lead on Washington just a few months in the past in Seattle.
The fourth-youngest Division I head coach this season, Riley doesn’t have a ton of head teaching expertise. He has spent his complete teaching profession at EWU, the place he labored as director of basketball operations from 2011-2014 earlier than changing into an assistant coach from 2014-2021.
Riley’s Eagles groups have dissatisfied in March, too. Because the Massive Sky Event’s high seed every of the final two years, they dropped their first recreation in each of these tournaments.
Matt Logie, Montana State head coach
Logie, who left Division II Level Loma to turn into Montana State’s head man final season, inherited a uncooked cope with the Bobcats. He took over a decimated roster, whose greatest gamers adopted former coach Danny Sprinkle to Utah State, and needed to rebuild on the fly.
He got here up aces. Logie and MSU used just a few transfers and some holdovers to seize the Massive Sky Event championship, incomes an auto-bid to the NCAA Event, the place the Sixteenth-seeded Bobcats fell to Grambling State in a play-in recreation. Nonetheless, it amounted to successful for Loge, who proved he may do two issues: Win at the next stage and rebuild a roster.
That may matter at WSU, whose gamers should mull their selections to remain or go away. Wing Jaylen Wells is contemplating going professional, which he confirmed after the staff’s loss on Saturday, and gamers like guard Myles Rice is perhaps a sizzling commodity if he considers different faculties.
The previous Whitworth head coach from 2011-2019, Logie additionally spent a while as an assistant at Lehigh, serving to that staff construct the roster that went on to beat Duke in 2012, which stands as one of many NCAA Event’s biggest upsets.
John Andrzejek, Florida assistant coach
Final summer time, Andrzejek left his assistant teaching job at WSU for an additional assistant’s job at Florida, which made the NCAA Event this season. Prior, he spent 4 seasons with the Cougs, serving to them gather a 69-61 document and a pair of NIT berths.
Andrzejek, who has by no means been a head coach, helped recruit lots of the present Cougars. He was the primary Energy 5 coach to supply Rice, an All-Pac-12 first-team choice, and he used his worldwide recruiting connections to land gamers like Mo Gueye, a 2023 NBA draft choose and all-conference first-teamer.
A pair potential roadblocks for Andrzejek’s path again to Pullman: He could be inheriting an unsure state of affairs, with WSU headed to the WCC on a two-year foundation beginning subsequent season, and WSU would want to purchase out his Florida contract, which he signed lower than a 12 months in the past. The Cougs would possibly have the ability to afford to take action, however would they be prepared to do it for somebody who has no head teaching expertise?
Dan Monson, outgoing Lengthy Seashore State head coach
Monson, whose Lengthy Seashore State staff made the NCAA Event as a 15 seed this season, was fired because the season got here to a detailed – however he coached out the 12 months. Now that the season is over, he’s a free agent, which makes him a doable candidate at WSU.
The previous Gonzaga head coach and an Idaho alumni, Monson helped the Zags attain nationwide prominence within the late Nineteen Nineties, setting what was a faculty document with 24 wins within the 1997-98 season and profitable WCC Coach of the Yr honors. In 1999, Monson led Tenth-seeded GU to the Elite Eight, dispatching Minnesota, Stanford and Florida alongside the best way, shedding to eventual champion UConn in a detailed one.
That spring, Monson ditched a brand new Gonzaga contract for the top coach job at Minnesota, the place he labored eight seasons, ultimately resigning in 2006 after a 2-5 begin.
Monson coached 17 seasons with Lengthy Seashore State, making the NCAA Event on two events and the NIT on 4, profitable the Massive West regular-season title in 4 of these seasons.
Mike Magpayo, UC Riverside head coach
Magpayo, who simply accomplished his fourth season as UC Riverside’s head coach, labored on two of Kyle Smith’s staffs, at Columbia and at San Francisco. Final season, the Highlanders got here to Pullman, the place the Cougs received an 86-49 blowout.
Magpayo might not have many connections to WSU, however he would possibly include an excellent advice from Smith, who spoke extremely of him after that recreation in December. In 4 seasons Riverside, Magpayo has collected a 68-50 document.
PULLMAN – Washington State is getting into a brand new period, and never simply because this system is headed to the West Coast Convention subsequent season. The Cougars are searching for a brand new head coach to switch Kyle Smith, who bolted for the job at Stanford.
Smith left WSU in an excellent place. The Cougs made the NCAA Event for the primary time since 2008, beating Drake on Thursday earlier than falling to second-seeded Iowa State on Saturday. They completed second within the Pac-12. It was their greatest season since that 2008 marketing campaign.
However now Washington State athletic director Pat Chun and president Kirk Schulz have a call to make. Here’s a record of potential candidates they could name, in no explicit order.
An apart: It’s doable WSU hires affiliate head coach Jim Shaw, however over the past a number of seasons, he has appeared to love his area of interest as a defensive guru. An in depth good friend of Smith’s, it’s additionally doable he may comply with him to Stanford.
David Riley, Jap Washington head coach
Riley, 35, would possibly take advantage of sense geographically. Over in Cheney, Riley has guided the Eagles to 2 straight Massive Sky regular-season championships, incomes the convention’s coach of the 12 months award in each 2023 and 2024. A Seattle native and Whitworth graduate, Riley could be accepting a bump in pay and training pedigree if he took the WSU job.
Riley’s EWU groups additionally personal two wins over WSU: Within the first spherical of final season’s NIT and within the 2021-22 common season, each in Pullman. He has proven he can beat and hold with power-conference opponents, beating California in 2022 and taking a late lead on Washington just a few months in the past in Seattle.
The fourth-youngest Division I head coach this season, Riley doesn’t have a ton of head teaching expertise. He has spent his complete teaching profession at EWU, the place he labored as director of basketball operations from 2011-2014 earlier than changing into an assistant coach from 2014-2021.
Riley’s Eagles groups have dissatisfied in March, too. Because the Massive Sky Event’s high seed every of the final two years, they dropped their first recreation in each of these tournaments.
Matt Logie, Montana State head coach
Logie, who left Division II Level Loma to turn into Montana State’s head man final season, inherited a uncooked cope with the Bobcats. He took over a decimated roster, whose greatest gamers adopted former coach Danny Sprinkle to Utah State, and needed to rebuild on the fly.
He got here up aces. Logie and MSU used just a few transfers and some holdovers to seize the Massive Sky Event championship, incomes an auto-bid to the NCAA Event, the place the Sixteenth-seeded Bobcats fell to Grambling State in a play-in recreation. Nonetheless, it amounted to successful for Loge, who proved he may do two issues: Win at the next stage and rebuild a roster.
That may matter at WSU, whose gamers should mull their selections to remain or go away. Wing Jaylen Wells is contemplating going professional, which he confirmed after the staff’s loss on Saturday, and gamers like guard Myles Rice is perhaps a sizzling commodity if he considers different faculties.
The previous Whitworth head coach from 2011-2019, Logie additionally spent a while as an assistant at Lehigh, serving to that staff construct the roster that went on to beat Duke in 2012, which stands as one of many NCAA Event’s biggest upsets.
John Andrzejek, Florida assistant coach
Final summer time, Andrzejek left his assistant teaching job at WSU for an additional assistant’s job at Florida, which made the NCAA Event this season. Prior, he spent 4 seasons with the Cougs, serving to them gather a 69-61 document and a pair of NIT berths.
Andrzejek, who has by no means been a head coach, helped recruit lots of the present Cougars. He was the primary Energy 5 coach to supply Rice, an All-Pac-12 first-team choice, and he used his worldwide recruiting connections to land gamers like Mo Gueye, a 2023 NBA draft choose and all-conference first-teamer.
A pair potential roadblocks for Andrzejek’s path again to Pullman: He could be inheriting an unsure state of affairs, with WSU headed to the WCC on a two-year foundation beginning subsequent season, and WSU would want to purchase out his Florida contract, which he signed lower than a 12 months in the past. The Cougs would possibly have the ability to afford to take action, however would they be prepared to do it for somebody who has no head teaching expertise?
Dan Monson, outgoing Lengthy Seashore State head coach
Monson, whose Lengthy Seashore State staff made the NCAA Event as a 15 seed this season, was fired because the season got here to a detailed – however he coached out the 12 months. Now that the season is over, he’s a free agent, which makes him a doable candidate at WSU.
The previous Gonzaga head coach and an Idaho alumni, Monson helped the Zags attain nationwide prominence within the late Nineteen Nineties, setting what was a faculty document with 24 wins within the 1997-98 season and profitable WCC Coach of the Yr honors. In 1999, Monson led Tenth-seeded GU to the Elite Eight, dispatching Minnesota, Stanford and Florida alongside the best way, shedding to eventual champion UConn in a detailed one.
That spring, Monson ditched a brand new Gonzaga contract for the top coach job at Minnesota, the place he labored eight seasons, ultimately resigning in 2006 after a 2-5 begin.
Monson coached 17 seasons with Lengthy Seashore State, making the NCAA Event on two events and the NIT on 4, profitable the Massive West regular-season title in 4 of these seasons.
Mike Magpayo, UC Riverside head coach
Magpayo, who simply accomplished his fourth season as UC Riverside’s head coach, labored on two of Kyle Smith’s staffs, at Columbia and at San Francisco. Final season, the Highlanders got here to Pullman, the place the Cougs received an 86-49 blowout.
Magpayo might not have many connections to WSU, however he would possibly include an excellent advice from Smith, who spoke extremely of him after that recreation in December. In 4 seasons Riverside, Magpayo has collected a 68-50 document.
PULLMAN – Washington State is getting into a brand new period, and never simply because this system is headed to the West Coast Convention subsequent season. The Cougars are searching for a brand new head coach to switch Kyle Smith, who bolted for the job at Stanford.
Smith left WSU in an excellent place. The Cougs made the NCAA Event for the primary time since 2008, beating Drake on Thursday earlier than falling to second-seeded Iowa State on Saturday. They completed second within the Pac-12. It was their greatest season since that 2008 marketing campaign.
However now Washington State athletic director Pat Chun and president Kirk Schulz have a call to make. Here’s a record of potential candidates they could name, in no explicit order.
An apart: It’s doable WSU hires affiliate head coach Jim Shaw, however over the past a number of seasons, he has appeared to love his area of interest as a defensive guru. An in depth good friend of Smith’s, it’s additionally doable he may comply with him to Stanford.
David Riley, Jap Washington head coach
Riley, 35, would possibly take advantage of sense geographically. Over in Cheney, Riley has guided the Eagles to 2 straight Massive Sky regular-season championships, incomes the convention’s coach of the 12 months award in each 2023 and 2024. A Seattle native and Whitworth graduate, Riley could be accepting a bump in pay and training pedigree if he took the WSU job.
Riley’s EWU groups additionally personal two wins over WSU: Within the first spherical of final season’s NIT and within the 2021-22 common season, each in Pullman. He has proven he can beat and hold with power-conference opponents, beating California in 2022 and taking a late lead on Washington just a few months in the past in Seattle.
The fourth-youngest Division I head coach this season, Riley doesn’t have a ton of head teaching expertise. He has spent his complete teaching profession at EWU, the place he labored as director of basketball operations from 2011-2014 earlier than changing into an assistant coach from 2014-2021.
Riley’s Eagles groups have dissatisfied in March, too. Because the Massive Sky Event’s high seed every of the final two years, they dropped their first recreation in each of these tournaments.
Matt Logie, Montana State head coach
Logie, who left Division II Level Loma to turn into Montana State’s head man final season, inherited a uncooked cope with the Bobcats. He took over a decimated roster, whose greatest gamers adopted former coach Danny Sprinkle to Utah State, and needed to rebuild on the fly.
He got here up aces. Logie and MSU used just a few transfers and some holdovers to seize the Massive Sky Event championship, incomes an auto-bid to the NCAA Event, the place the Sixteenth-seeded Bobcats fell to Grambling State in a play-in recreation. Nonetheless, it amounted to successful for Loge, who proved he may do two issues: Win at the next stage and rebuild a roster.
That may matter at WSU, whose gamers should mull their selections to remain or go away. Wing Jaylen Wells is contemplating going professional, which he confirmed after the staff’s loss on Saturday, and gamers like guard Myles Rice is perhaps a sizzling commodity if he considers different faculties.
The previous Whitworth head coach from 2011-2019, Logie additionally spent a while as an assistant at Lehigh, serving to that staff construct the roster that went on to beat Duke in 2012, which stands as one of many NCAA Event’s biggest upsets.
John Andrzejek, Florida assistant coach
Final summer time, Andrzejek left his assistant teaching job at WSU for an additional assistant’s job at Florida, which made the NCAA Event this season. Prior, he spent 4 seasons with the Cougs, serving to them gather a 69-61 document and a pair of NIT berths.
Andrzejek, who has by no means been a head coach, helped recruit lots of the present Cougars. He was the primary Energy 5 coach to supply Rice, an All-Pac-12 first-team choice, and he used his worldwide recruiting connections to land gamers like Mo Gueye, a 2023 NBA draft choose and all-conference first-teamer.
A pair potential roadblocks for Andrzejek’s path again to Pullman: He could be inheriting an unsure state of affairs, with WSU headed to the WCC on a two-year foundation beginning subsequent season, and WSU would want to purchase out his Florida contract, which he signed lower than a 12 months in the past. The Cougs would possibly have the ability to afford to take action, however would they be prepared to do it for somebody who has no head teaching expertise?
Dan Monson, outgoing Lengthy Seashore State head coach
Monson, whose Lengthy Seashore State staff made the NCAA Event as a 15 seed this season, was fired because the season got here to a detailed – however he coached out the 12 months. Now that the season is over, he’s a free agent, which makes him a doable candidate at WSU.
The previous Gonzaga head coach and an Idaho alumni, Monson helped the Zags attain nationwide prominence within the late Nineteen Nineties, setting what was a faculty document with 24 wins within the 1997-98 season and profitable WCC Coach of the Yr honors. In 1999, Monson led Tenth-seeded GU to the Elite Eight, dispatching Minnesota, Stanford and Florida alongside the best way, shedding to eventual champion UConn in a detailed one.
That spring, Monson ditched a brand new Gonzaga contract for the top coach job at Minnesota, the place he labored eight seasons, ultimately resigning in 2006 after a 2-5 begin.
Monson coached 17 seasons with Lengthy Seashore State, making the NCAA Event on two events and the NIT on 4, profitable the Massive West regular-season title in 4 of these seasons.
Mike Magpayo, UC Riverside head coach
Magpayo, who simply accomplished his fourth season as UC Riverside’s head coach, labored on two of Kyle Smith’s staffs, at Columbia and at San Francisco. Final season, the Highlanders got here to Pullman, the place the Cougs received an 86-49 blowout.
Magpayo might not have many connections to WSU, however he would possibly include an excellent advice from Smith, who spoke extremely of him after that recreation in December. In 4 seasons Riverside, Magpayo has collected a 68-50 document.
PULLMAN – Washington State is getting into a brand new period, and never simply because this system is headed to the West Coast Convention subsequent season. The Cougars are searching for a brand new head coach to switch Kyle Smith, who bolted for the job at Stanford.
Smith left WSU in an excellent place. The Cougs made the NCAA Event for the primary time since 2008, beating Drake on Thursday earlier than falling to second-seeded Iowa State on Saturday. They completed second within the Pac-12. It was their greatest season since that 2008 marketing campaign.
However now Washington State athletic director Pat Chun and president Kirk Schulz have a call to make. Here’s a record of potential candidates they could name, in no explicit order.
An apart: It’s doable WSU hires affiliate head coach Jim Shaw, however over the past a number of seasons, he has appeared to love his area of interest as a defensive guru. An in depth good friend of Smith’s, it’s additionally doable he may comply with him to Stanford.
David Riley, Jap Washington head coach
Riley, 35, would possibly take advantage of sense geographically. Over in Cheney, Riley has guided the Eagles to 2 straight Massive Sky regular-season championships, incomes the convention’s coach of the 12 months award in each 2023 and 2024. A Seattle native and Whitworth graduate, Riley could be accepting a bump in pay and training pedigree if he took the WSU job.
Riley’s EWU groups additionally personal two wins over WSU: Within the first spherical of final season’s NIT and within the 2021-22 common season, each in Pullman. He has proven he can beat and hold with power-conference opponents, beating California in 2022 and taking a late lead on Washington just a few months in the past in Seattle.
The fourth-youngest Division I head coach this season, Riley doesn’t have a ton of head teaching expertise. He has spent his complete teaching profession at EWU, the place he labored as director of basketball operations from 2011-2014 earlier than changing into an assistant coach from 2014-2021.
Riley’s Eagles groups have dissatisfied in March, too. Because the Massive Sky Event’s high seed every of the final two years, they dropped their first recreation in each of these tournaments.
Matt Logie, Montana State head coach
Logie, who left Division II Level Loma to turn into Montana State’s head man final season, inherited a uncooked cope with the Bobcats. He took over a decimated roster, whose greatest gamers adopted former coach Danny Sprinkle to Utah State, and needed to rebuild on the fly.
He got here up aces. Logie and MSU used just a few transfers and some holdovers to seize the Massive Sky Event championship, incomes an auto-bid to the NCAA Event, the place the Sixteenth-seeded Bobcats fell to Grambling State in a play-in recreation. Nonetheless, it amounted to successful for Loge, who proved he may do two issues: Win at the next stage and rebuild a roster.
That may matter at WSU, whose gamers should mull their selections to remain or go away. Wing Jaylen Wells is contemplating going professional, which he confirmed after the staff’s loss on Saturday, and gamers like guard Myles Rice is perhaps a sizzling commodity if he considers different faculties.
The previous Whitworth head coach from 2011-2019, Logie additionally spent a while as an assistant at Lehigh, serving to that staff construct the roster that went on to beat Duke in 2012, which stands as one of many NCAA Event’s biggest upsets.
John Andrzejek, Florida assistant coach
Final summer time, Andrzejek left his assistant teaching job at WSU for an additional assistant’s job at Florida, which made the NCAA Event this season. Prior, he spent 4 seasons with the Cougs, serving to them gather a 69-61 document and a pair of NIT berths.
Andrzejek, who has by no means been a head coach, helped recruit lots of the present Cougars. He was the primary Energy 5 coach to supply Rice, an All-Pac-12 first-team choice, and he used his worldwide recruiting connections to land gamers like Mo Gueye, a 2023 NBA draft choose and all-conference first-teamer.
A pair potential roadblocks for Andrzejek’s path again to Pullman: He could be inheriting an unsure state of affairs, with WSU headed to the WCC on a two-year foundation beginning subsequent season, and WSU would want to purchase out his Florida contract, which he signed lower than a 12 months in the past. The Cougs would possibly have the ability to afford to take action, however would they be prepared to do it for somebody who has no head teaching expertise?
Dan Monson, outgoing Lengthy Seashore State head coach
Monson, whose Lengthy Seashore State staff made the NCAA Event as a 15 seed this season, was fired because the season got here to a detailed – however he coached out the 12 months. Now that the season is over, he’s a free agent, which makes him a doable candidate at WSU.
The previous Gonzaga head coach and an Idaho alumni, Monson helped the Zags attain nationwide prominence within the late Nineteen Nineties, setting what was a faculty document with 24 wins within the 1997-98 season and profitable WCC Coach of the Yr honors. In 1999, Monson led Tenth-seeded GU to the Elite Eight, dispatching Minnesota, Stanford and Florida alongside the best way, shedding to eventual champion UConn in a detailed one.
That spring, Monson ditched a brand new Gonzaga contract for the top coach job at Minnesota, the place he labored eight seasons, ultimately resigning in 2006 after a 2-5 begin.
Monson coached 17 seasons with Lengthy Seashore State, making the NCAA Event on two events and the NIT on 4, profitable the Massive West regular-season title in 4 of these seasons.
Mike Magpayo, UC Riverside head coach
Magpayo, who simply accomplished his fourth season as UC Riverside’s head coach, labored on two of Kyle Smith’s staffs, at Columbia and at San Francisco. Final season, the Highlanders got here to Pullman, the place the Cougs received an 86-49 blowout.
Magpayo might not have many connections to WSU, however he would possibly include an excellent advice from Smith, who spoke extremely of him after that recreation in December. In 4 seasons Riverside, Magpayo has collected a 68-50 document.
PULLMAN – Washington State is getting into a brand new period, and never simply because this system is headed to the West Coast Convention subsequent season. The Cougars are searching for a brand new head coach to switch Kyle Smith, who bolted for the job at Stanford.
Smith left WSU in an excellent place. The Cougs made the NCAA Event for the primary time since 2008, beating Drake on Thursday earlier than falling to second-seeded Iowa State on Saturday. They completed second within the Pac-12. It was their greatest season since that 2008 marketing campaign.
However now Washington State athletic director Pat Chun and president Kirk Schulz have a call to make. Here’s a record of potential candidates they could name, in no explicit order.
An apart: It’s doable WSU hires affiliate head coach Jim Shaw, however over the past a number of seasons, he has appeared to love his area of interest as a defensive guru. An in depth good friend of Smith’s, it’s additionally doable he may comply with him to Stanford.
David Riley, Jap Washington head coach
Riley, 35, would possibly take advantage of sense geographically. Over in Cheney, Riley has guided the Eagles to 2 straight Massive Sky regular-season championships, incomes the convention’s coach of the 12 months award in each 2023 and 2024. A Seattle native and Whitworth graduate, Riley could be accepting a bump in pay and training pedigree if he took the WSU job.
Riley’s EWU groups additionally personal two wins over WSU: Within the first spherical of final season’s NIT and within the 2021-22 common season, each in Pullman. He has proven he can beat and hold with power-conference opponents, beating California in 2022 and taking a late lead on Washington just a few months in the past in Seattle.
The fourth-youngest Division I head coach this season, Riley doesn’t have a ton of head teaching expertise. He has spent his complete teaching profession at EWU, the place he labored as director of basketball operations from 2011-2014 earlier than changing into an assistant coach from 2014-2021.
Riley’s Eagles groups have dissatisfied in March, too. Because the Massive Sky Event’s high seed every of the final two years, they dropped their first recreation in each of these tournaments.
Matt Logie, Montana State head coach
Logie, who left Division II Level Loma to turn into Montana State’s head man final season, inherited a uncooked cope with the Bobcats. He took over a decimated roster, whose greatest gamers adopted former coach Danny Sprinkle to Utah State, and needed to rebuild on the fly.
He got here up aces. Logie and MSU used just a few transfers and some holdovers to seize the Massive Sky Event championship, incomes an auto-bid to the NCAA Event, the place the Sixteenth-seeded Bobcats fell to Grambling State in a play-in recreation. Nonetheless, it amounted to successful for Loge, who proved he may do two issues: Win at the next stage and rebuild a roster.
That may matter at WSU, whose gamers should mull their selections to remain or go away. Wing Jaylen Wells is contemplating going professional, which he confirmed after the staff’s loss on Saturday, and gamers like guard Myles Rice is perhaps a sizzling commodity if he considers different faculties.
The previous Whitworth head coach from 2011-2019, Logie additionally spent a while as an assistant at Lehigh, serving to that staff construct the roster that went on to beat Duke in 2012, which stands as one of many NCAA Event’s biggest upsets.
John Andrzejek, Florida assistant coach
Final summer time, Andrzejek left his assistant teaching job at WSU for an additional assistant’s job at Florida, which made the NCAA Event this season. Prior, he spent 4 seasons with the Cougs, serving to them gather a 69-61 document and a pair of NIT berths.
Andrzejek, who has by no means been a head coach, helped recruit lots of the present Cougars. He was the primary Energy 5 coach to supply Rice, an All-Pac-12 first-team choice, and he used his worldwide recruiting connections to land gamers like Mo Gueye, a 2023 NBA draft choose and all-conference first-teamer.
A pair potential roadblocks for Andrzejek’s path again to Pullman: He could be inheriting an unsure state of affairs, with WSU headed to the WCC on a two-year foundation beginning subsequent season, and WSU would want to purchase out his Florida contract, which he signed lower than a 12 months in the past. The Cougs would possibly have the ability to afford to take action, however would they be prepared to do it for somebody who has no head teaching expertise?
Dan Monson, outgoing Lengthy Seashore State head coach
Monson, whose Lengthy Seashore State staff made the NCAA Event as a 15 seed this season, was fired because the season got here to a detailed – however he coached out the 12 months. Now that the season is over, he’s a free agent, which makes him a doable candidate at WSU.
The previous Gonzaga head coach and an Idaho alumni, Monson helped the Zags attain nationwide prominence within the late Nineteen Nineties, setting what was a faculty document with 24 wins within the 1997-98 season and profitable WCC Coach of the Yr honors. In 1999, Monson led Tenth-seeded GU to the Elite Eight, dispatching Minnesota, Stanford and Florida alongside the best way, shedding to eventual champion UConn in a detailed one.
That spring, Monson ditched a brand new Gonzaga contract for the top coach job at Minnesota, the place he labored eight seasons, ultimately resigning in 2006 after a 2-5 begin.
Monson coached 17 seasons with Lengthy Seashore State, making the NCAA Event on two events and the NIT on 4, profitable the Massive West regular-season title in 4 of these seasons.
Mike Magpayo, UC Riverside head coach
Magpayo, who simply accomplished his fourth season as UC Riverside’s head coach, labored on two of Kyle Smith’s staffs, at Columbia and at San Francisco. Final season, the Highlanders got here to Pullman, the place the Cougs received an 86-49 blowout.
Magpayo might not have many connections to WSU, however he would possibly include an excellent advice from Smith, who spoke extremely of him after that recreation in December. In 4 seasons Riverside, Magpayo has collected a 68-50 document.
PULLMAN – Washington State is getting into a brand new period, and never simply because this system is headed to the West Coast Convention subsequent season. The Cougars are searching for a brand new head coach to switch Kyle Smith, who bolted for the job at Stanford.
Smith left WSU in an excellent place. The Cougs made the NCAA Event for the primary time since 2008, beating Drake on Thursday earlier than falling to second-seeded Iowa State on Saturday. They completed second within the Pac-12. It was their greatest season since that 2008 marketing campaign.
However now Washington State athletic director Pat Chun and president Kirk Schulz have a call to make. Here’s a record of potential candidates they could name, in no explicit order.
An apart: It’s doable WSU hires affiliate head coach Jim Shaw, however over the past a number of seasons, he has appeared to love his area of interest as a defensive guru. An in depth good friend of Smith’s, it’s additionally doable he may comply with him to Stanford.
David Riley, Jap Washington head coach
Riley, 35, would possibly take advantage of sense geographically. Over in Cheney, Riley has guided the Eagles to 2 straight Massive Sky regular-season championships, incomes the convention’s coach of the 12 months award in each 2023 and 2024. A Seattle native and Whitworth graduate, Riley could be accepting a bump in pay and training pedigree if he took the WSU job.
Riley’s EWU groups additionally personal two wins over WSU: Within the first spherical of final season’s NIT and within the 2021-22 common season, each in Pullman. He has proven he can beat and hold with power-conference opponents, beating California in 2022 and taking a late lead on Washington just a few months in the past in Seattle.
The fourth-youngest Division I head coach this season, Riley doesn’t have a ton of head teaching expertise. He has spent his complete teaching profession at EWU, the place he labored as director of basketball operations from 2011-2014 earlier than changing into an assistant coach from 2014-2021.
Riley’s Eagles groups have dissatisfied in March, too. Because the Massive Sky Event’s high seed every of the final two years, they dropped their first recreation in each of these tournaments.
Matt Logie, Montana State head coach
Logie, who left Division II Level Loma to turn into Montana State’s head man final season, inherited a uncooked cope with the Bobcats. He took over a decimated roster, whose greatest gamers adopted former coach Danny Sprinkle to Utah State, and needed to rebuild on the fly.
He got here up aces. Logie and MSU used just a few transfers and some holdovers to seize the Massive Sky Event championship, incomes an auto-bid to the NCAA Event, the place the Sixteenth-seeded Bobcats fell to Grambling State in a play-in recreation. Nonetheless, it amounted to successful for Loge, who proved he may do two issues: Win at the next stage and rebuild a roster.
That may matter at WSU, whose gamers should mull their selections to remain or go away. Wing Jaylen Wells is contemplating going professional, which he confirmed after the staff’s loss on Saturday, and gamers like guard Myles Rice is perhaps a sizzling commodity if he considers different faculties.
The previous Whitworth head coach from 2011-2019, Logie additionally spent a while as an assistant at Lehigh, serving to that staff construct the roster that went on to beat Duke in 2012, which stands as one of many NCAA Event’s biggest upsets.
John Andrzejek, Florida assistant coach
Final summer time, Andrzejek left his assistant teaching job at WSU for an additional assistant’s job at Florida, which made the NCAA Event this season. Prior, he spent 4 seasons with the Cougs, serving to them gather a 69-61 document and a pair of NIT berths.
Andrzejek, who has by no means been a head coach, helped recruit lots of the present Cougars. He was the primary Energy 5 coach to supply Rice, an All-Pac-12 first-team choice, and he used his worldwide recruiting connections to land gamers like Mo Gueye, a 2023 NBA draft choose and all-conference first-teamer.
A pair potential roadblocks for Andrzejek’s path again to Pullman: He could be inheriting an unsure state of affairs, with WSU headed to the WCC on a two-year foundation beginning subsequent season, and WSU would want to purchase out his Florida contract, which he signed lower than a 12 months in the past. The Cougs would possibly have the ability to afford to take action, however would they be prepared to do it for somebody who has no head teaching expertise?
Dan Monson, outgoing Lengthy Seashore State head coach
Monson, whose Lengthy Seashore State staff made the NCAA Event as a 15 seed this season, was fired because the season got here to a detailed – however he coached out the 12 months. Now that the season is over, he’s a free agent, which makes him a doable candidate at WSU.
The previous Gonzaga head coach and an Idaho alumni, Monson helped the Zags attain nationwide prominence within the late Nineteen Nineties, setting what was a faculty document with 24 wins within the 1997-98 season and profitable WCC Coach of the Yr honors. In 1999, Monson led Tenth-seeded GU to the Elite Eight, dispatching Minnesota, Stanford and Florida alongside the best way, shedding to eventual champion UConn in a detailed one.
That spring, Monson ditched a brand new Gonzaga contract for the top coach job at Minnesota, the place he labored eight seasons, ultimately resigning in 2006 after a 2-5 begin.
Monson coached 17 seasons with Lengthy Seashore State, making the NCAA Event on two events and the NIT on 4, profitable the Massive West regular-season title in 4 of these seasons.
Mike Magpayo, UC Riverside head coach
Magpayo, who simply accomplished his fourth season as UC Riverside’s head coach, labored on two of Kyle Smith’s staffs, at Columbia and at San Francisco. Final season, the Highlanders got here to Pullman, the place the Cougs received an 86-49 blowout.
Magpayo might not have many connections to WSU, however he would possibly include an excellent advice from Smith, who spoke extremely of him after that recreation in December. In 4 seasons Riverside, Magpayo has collected a 68-50 document.