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Message: [QUOTE="Dillon77, post: 2124492, member: 6620"] [B]A LITTLE MORE ON NEWBAUER [/B] As we know, Florida announced the hiring of Cameron Newbauer to take the reins of its Women's Basketball Team. His hiring came after San Antonio Spur's assistant Becky Hammon reportedly turned down the post to stay in the NBA. Regardless of that, it looks like the Gators got a good one: Newbauer was hired from Belmont in Nashville, TN, where he produced a 79-50 record over four seasons. He led them to the NCAA tourney this year and they lost their first-round game to Kentucky, 73-70. Newbauer graduated from IPFW in 2001 while working as a HS assistant JV coach. He knows Indiana WBB and recruited former Canterbury High School standout Darby Maggard, a sophomore guard, at Belmont. She averaged 14.5 ppg this season for the Bruins. Interestingly, Homestead senior Karissa McLaughlin is among five recruits who had previously committed to Florida. She reopened her recruiting after Florida fired former HC Butler. She has not ruled out sticking with Florida and I'll bet Newbauer has hit that phone line already. His hiring may make Indiana HS recruiting areas even more competitive. Now that Indiana and Purude are also doing well, there will be competition for hoopsters. Indiana and Purdue were also finalists for McLauglin, so we'll get a test of this right off the bat. Newbauer can offer them an Indiana presence and a Florida climate. Nancy Fahey accepted the Illinois job last week and we'll see how the former Washington U. of St. Louis coach does at the D1 level (she won 5 DIII championships at Wash U). So that leaves two major DI P5 schools with coaching slots open -- Arkansas and USC. For those Irish fans worried if and when Niele might leave for a HC post, Dillon's druthers are feeling pretty good that she won't be heading south to Arkansas or west to southern California. The Irish don't recruit much on the left coast and I'm guessing Niele does not want to be that far away from the midwest. BTW, the Belmont job looks like a pretty attractive one for a young coach like Newbauer. Top three scorers (including Maggard and two tall folks, one of whom a Vandy transfer) are back and Belmont has more than a pretty fine reputation and mid-school size (7,700 undergrads). [B] [URL="http://www.news-sentinel.com/sports/20170327/fort_waynes_cameron_newbauer_named_florida_womens_coach"]Fort Wayne's Cameron Newbauer named Florida women's coach - News-Sentinel.com[/URL][/B] [/QUOTE]

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