New College Basketball Coaches in 2009

There’s no doubt that the coach who has generated the most hype of the new crop of coaches for 2009 is former Memphis Tiger and current Kentucky basketball coach, John Calipari. Isiah Thomas at FIU and Josh Pastner coming in at Memphis are two of the other better-known new coaches for the 2009-10 NCAA basketball season. There have been a number of other NCAA men’s college basketball coaching moves made though. Here’s a listing of the new coaching moves heading into the 2009 NCAA basketball preseason. Interim coaches are annotated by the letter I.

New Men’s College Basketball Coaches 2009

College                                    Old Coach                   Years   Record        New Coach

Alabama                                 Mark Gottfried 11        210-131      Anthony Grant

Appalachian State              Houston Fancher          9          137-136      Buzz Peterson

Arizona                                    Lute Olson                   24        589-188      Sean Miller

Army                                        Jim Crews                    7          60-139        Zach Spiker

Boston U                                  Dennis Wolff                15        247-197      Patrick Chambers

Cal Poly                                   Kevin Bromley             9          99-145        Joe Callero

Elon                                          Ernie Nestor                 6          67-117        Matt Matheny

Fairleigh Dickinson            Tom Green                   26        407-351     Greg Vetrone (I)

Florida International         Sergio Rouco             5  55-94          Isiah Thomas

Georgia                                    Dennis Felton               6          84-91          Mark Fox

Hampton                                 Kevin Nickelberry        3          50-44   Edward Joyner JR (I)

High Point                               Bart Lundy                   6          96-87          Scott Cherry         

Holy Cross                               Ralph Willard               10        192-117      Sean Kearney

Kentucky                                 Billy G                          2          40-27           John Calipari

Liberty                                     Ritchie McKay 2          39-28           Dale Layer

Memphis                                 John Calipari                9          253-69         Josh Pastner

Nevada                                    Mark Fox                     5          123-43         David Carter

North Carolina Central Henry Dickerson          5          47-98           Levelle Moton

Portland State                       Ken Bone                     4          77-49           Tyler Geving

SE Missouri State                  Zac Roman                   1          3-27             Dickey Nutt

Tennessee-Martin                Bret Campbell              10        125-167       Jason James

Texas-Pan American           Tom Schuberth 3          42-45           John Cooper

USC                                              Tim Floyd                     4          85-50           Kevin O’Neil

VCU                                             Anthony Grant  3          76-25           Shaka Smart

Virginia                                      Dave Leitao                  4          63-60           Tony Bennett

Washington State                   Tony Bennett                3          68-30            Ken Bone

Xavier                                         Sean Miller                   5          120-47          Chris Mack

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