Wow. Princeton's Berube takes the Northwestern job. Did RU even call her? McKeowan did announce his retirement a year in advance, so it's possible they've been talking for a while.
But between Berube, Curry, Reiss, plenty of head coaches who have taken teams to the tournament getting new jobs.
Interesting that Redus is the head coach and Mitchell the assistant, given she has more experience (though not all folks want a HC job), but excited to have them both. Definitely a young staff thus far, particularly if the rumors about the TN assistant turn out to be true.
In the era of NIL and transfer portal, all recruiting is national. But I'd love to see RU start to be a huge player in the tri-state area recruiting scene again.
Even though CVS had her critics in the NJ recruiting scene, most of her best players (Shawnetta Stewart, Essence Carson, Matee...
Can you say more Kupuna on Reiss?
Zinn definitely moved FAST here...which feels weird given we landed an assistant--if this person hadn't worked at LSU, would they have even been a candidate? If they reached out to Fairfield and Columbia coaches and were turned down, I get it...but there are...
The A10 final actually has two coaches we could be taking a look at:
Reiss at Rhode Island
Vanessa Blair Lewis at George Mason
ESPN has Rhode Island in and Richmond (A10's #3 seed that George Mason beat yesterday) as the "last team in." George Mason's NET is #60 which makes it hard to get in...