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Shaka Smart is finally back in the Sweet 16, and it is clear the longtime coach is not taking the opportunity for granted. Marquette defeated Colorado 81-77 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday. Following his team’s hard-fought …
Tensions flared at the Maui Invitational Tuesday between Kansas head coach Bill Self and Marquette head coach Shaka Smart. AP No. 1 Kansas and No. 4 Marquette faced off at Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Marquette led 33-28 over Kansas when …
It is dangerous to make sweeping decisions in the moments after big sports news drops. Trades for prospects or draft picks might take years before they can be assessed. Coaching hires are similar; it could take a long time to see how they will work …
Texas fans were left disappointed with the Shaka Smart era after the coach failed to lead the team to an NCAA Tournament win in six seasons. It sounds like Smart wasn’t thrilled with them, either. Smart was officially introduced as the new head …
Shaka Smart has been on the hot seat at Texas for two years now, and his run with the program is about to come to an end. Smart is leaving Texas to take the head coaching job at Marquette, Stadium’s Jeff Goodman reports. Smart, 43, spent six …
Shaka Smart seemed to be on the hot seat for much of the 2019-20 season, but he will get a sixth season as the head coach at Texas. Longhorns athletic director Chris Del Conte told Brian Davis of the Austin American-Statesman that Smart will remain …
Monday night’s blowout loss at Wast Virginia has many fans and also a prominent former player concerned about the state of Texas Basketball. The Texas Longhorns got destroyed 97-59 at West Virginia and looked like they did not belong on the …
It has been nearly four years since Texas hired Shaka Smart in hopes of returning the program to the level of success it enjoyed early in the Rick Barnes era, but that simply has not happened. With the Longhorns having missed the NCAA Tournament for …
Augie Garrido made a bigger impact on college baseball than arguably any coach in history, but his influence was clearly felt across collegiate athletics as a whole. Garrido died on Thursday after being hospitalized following a stroke suffered over …
Shaka Smart received a warm welcome when he returned to the place that helped make him one of the more popular coaches in college basketball. From 2009 through 2015, Smart was the head coach of the men’s basketball team at Virginia Commonwealth …
You certainly can’t accuse the Georgetown Hoyas of failing to cast a wide net in their search for a new head coach. According to a report by Gary Parrish of CBS Sports on Tuesday, Mike Brey of Notre Dame and Shaka Smart of Texas both turned …
With a mismatched, underperforming roster, the Houston Rockets will search far and wide for the right man for their head coaching job, even if he has to come from the ranks of college basketball. According to a report by Marc Stein of ESPN on …
Shaka Smart has finally decided to leave VCU, and Texas is the school that was able to pry him away from Richmond. Texas AD Steve Patterson met with Smart in Richmond on Thursday and the two sides agreed to a deal that will make the 37-year-old the …
Texas could be replacing Rick Barnes with Shaka Smart if all goes their way. CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein reports that Smart is in discussions with the Longhorns about their head coaching position, which became vacant when the program parted ways …
Shaka Smart’s VCU Rams may have blown a lead against Stephen F. Austin and been sent home packing early from the NCAA Tournament, but that doesn’t mean the coach didn’t give us a memorable moment before his exit. Check out that …
Shaka Smart quickly became one of the hottest coaching names in college basketball after leading Virginia Commonwealth to the Final Four in 2011 in just his second season as a head coach. Two seasons later, he remains a top head coaching target, and …
