Coaching Carousel 2001

Coaching Carousel 2001: Updating list of Division I Basketball Coaching Changes (2000-01 Season / 2001 Off-Season)

Conference	School	New Coach	Previous Coach
ACC	Wake Forest	Skip Prosser	Dave Odom (left for South Carolina)
America East	Hofstra	Tom Pecora	Jay Wright (left for Villanova)
	Northeastern	Ron Everhart	Rudy Keeling (fired)
Atlantic 10	Duquesne	Danny Nee	Darelle Porter (resigned)
	George Washington	Karl Hobbs	Tom Penders (resigned)
	La Salle	Billy Hahn	Speedy Morris (fired)
	Rhode Island	Jim Baron	Jerry DeGregorio (fired)
	St. Bonaventure	Jan van Breda Kolff	Jim Baron (left for Rhode Island)
	UMass	Steve Lappas	Bruiser Flint (resigned)
	Xavier	Thad Matta	Skip Prosser (left for Wake Forest)
Big 12	Texas Tech	Bob Knight	James Dickey (fired)
Big East	Rutgers	Gary Waters	Kevin Bannon (fired)
	Seton Hall	Louis Orr	Tommy Amaker (left for Michigan)
	Villanova	Jay Wright	Steve Lappas (resigned)
Big Ten	Michigan	Tommy Amaker	Brian Ellerbe (fired)
	Wisconsin	Bo Ryan	Dick Bennett (resigned midseason)
Big West	Cal Poly	Kevin Bromley	Jeff Schneider (resigned midseason)
	Idaho	Leonard Perry	David Farrar (fired)
CAA	Drexel	Bruiser Flint	Steve Seymour (fired)
	Old Dominion	Blaine Taylor	Jeff Capel II (resigned)
	Towson	Michael Hunt	Mike Jaskulski (fired)
Conference USA	Louisville	Rick Pitino	Denny Crum (retired)
Horizon League	Butler	Todd Lickliter	Thad Matta (left for Xavier)
	Milwaukee	Bruce Pearl	Bo Ryan (left for Wisconsin)
MAAC	Siena	Rob Lanier	Louis Orr (left for Seton Hall)
MAC	Kent State	Stan Heath	Gary Waters (left for Rutgers)
	Northern Illinois	Rob Judson	Brian Hammel (resigned midseason)
	Ohio	Tim O’Shea	Larry Hunter (fired)
MEAC	Florida A&M	Mike Gillespie	Mickey Clayton (resigned to be AD)
	Morgan State	Butch Beard	Chris Fuller (fired)
Mid-Continent	UMKC	Rich Zvosec	Dean Demopoulos (left for the NBA)
Mountain West	UNLV	Charlie Spoonhour	Bill Bayno (fired)
NEC	Robert Morris	Mark Schmidt	Danny Nee (left for Duquesne)
SEC	South Carolina	Dave Odom	Eddie Fogler (retired)
	Tennessee	Buzz Peterson	Jerry Green (resigned)
Southland	McNeese State	Tic Price	Ron Everhart (left for Northeastern)
Sun Belt	Denver	Terry Carroll	Marty Fletcher (fired)
	New Orleans	Monte Towe	Joey Stiebing (fired)
	North Texas	Johnny Jones	Vic Trilli (fired)
SWAC	Southern	Ben Jobe	Tommie Green (resigned)
	Texas Southern	Ronnie Courtney	Robert Moreland (fired)
WAC	Tulsa	John Phillips	Buzz Peterson (left for Tennessee)
WCC	Pepperdine	Paul Westphal	Jan van Breda Kolff (left for St. Bonaventure)
	Portland	Michael Holton	Rob Chavez (fired)
	Saint Mary’s	Randy Bennett	Dave Bollwinkel (resigned)

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