Coaching Carousel 2002

Coaching Carousel 2002: Updating list of Division I Basketball Coaching Changes (2001-02 Season / 2002 Off-Season)

Conference	School	New Coach	Previous Coach
ACC	Florida State	Leonard Hamilton	Steve Robinson (fired)
America East	Albany	Will Brown	Scott Beeten (fired midseason)
Atlantic 10	Richmond	Jerry Wainwright	John Beilein (left for West Virginia)
Atlantic Sun	Georgia State	Michael Perry	Lefty Driesell (retired)
Big East	West Virginia	John Beilein	Gale Catlett (retired)
Big Sky	Montana	Pat Kennedy	Don Holst (fired)
	Portland State	Heath Schroyer	Joel Sobotka (resigned)
Big South	Liberty	Randy Dunton	Mel Hankinson (fired)
	Radford	Byron Samuels	Ron Bradley (resigned)
Big West	Long Beach State	Larry Reynolds	Wayne Morgan (resigned)
CAA	UNC Wilmington	Brad Brownell	Jerry Wainwright (left for Richmond)
	VCU	Jeff Capel III	Mack McCarthy (resigned)
Conference USA	DePaul	Dave Leitao	Pat Kennedy (resigned)
	Saint Louis	Brad Soderberg	Lorenzo Romar (left for Washington)
	TCU	Neil Dougherty	Billy Tubbs (resigned)
	UAB	Mike Anderson	Murry Bartow (resigned)
Horizon League	Green Bay	Tod Kowalczyk	Mike Heideman (fired)
MAC	Kent State	Jim Christian	Stan Heath (left for Arkansas)
MEAC	Bethune-Cookman	Clifford Reed	Horace Broadnax (resigned)
	Hampton	Bobby Collins	Steve Merfeld (left for Evansville)
	Norfolk State	Dwight Freeman	Wil Jones (fired)
Mid-Continent	Valparaiso	Scott Drew	Homer Drew (retired)
Missouri Valley	Bradley	Jim Les	Jim Molinari (fired)
	Evansville	Steve Merfeld	Jim Crews (fired)
Mountain West	New Mexico	Ritchie McKay	Fran Fraschilla (fired)
NEC	Long Island	Jim Ferry	Ray Martin (resigned)
Ohio Valley	Tennessee Tech	Mike Sutton	Jeff Lebo (left for Chattanooga)
Pac-10	Oregon State	Jay John	Ritchie McKay (left for New Mexico)
	Washington	Lorenzo Romar	Bob Bender (fired)
Patriot League	Army	Jim Crews	Pat Harris (fired)
	Lehigh	Billy Taylor	Sal Mentesana (fired)
SEC	Arkansas	Stan Heath	Nolan Richardson (retired)
SoCon	Chattanooga	Jeff Lebo	Henry Dickerson (resigned)
	College of Charleston	Tom Herrion	John Kresse (retired)
	Wofford	Mike Young	Richard Johnson (resigned to be AD)
Southland	Nicholls State	Ricky Blanton	Rickey Broussard (resigned)
Sun Belt	Middle Tennessee	Kermit Davis	Randy Wiel (resigned)
	South Alabama	John Pelphrey	Bob Weltlich (resigned)
SWAC	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	Van Holt	Harold Blevins (fired)
	Prairie View A&M	Jerry Francis	Elwood Plummer (fired)
WAC	Boise State	Greg Graham	Rod Jensen (fired)
	Fresno State	Ray Lopes	Jerry Tarkanian (retired)
	San José State	Phil Johnson	Steve Barnes (resigned)
	UTEP	Billy Gillispie	Jason Rabedeaux (resigned)

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