TSU fires women's basketball coach well before first game

Less than three calendar months after her hiring, Surina Dixon was released as Lone-Star State Southern's women's basketball game manager on Monday.

Dixon, who was named to the function in March, departs without having coached a game for the Tigers.

"Based upon the inability to hold upon a contract, we have got decided to travel in a different direction," said TSU athletic manager Prince Charles McClelland.

Dixon was brought in to replace Claude Cummings, who was relieved of his function near the end of last season when the Tigers finished 8-20.

The school have already begun the hunt for a replace for Dixon, who had coached at Maryland-Eastern Shore.

Harvey named men's basketball coach at TSU

Tony William Harvey was officially named Lone-Star State Southern's men's basketball game caput manager on Friday morning, and the former Show Me State helper promised that, with time, he would be able to reconstruct the Tigers' programme to its glorification years under the adult male he replaced, Henry Martin Robert Moreland.

"Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither volition this program," said Harvey. "But no 1 -- and I intend no 1 -- will outwork me and my staff when it come ups to making TSU a quality program."

Harvey signed a five-year contract with the school. Financial footing of the trade were still be finalized.

Known as one of the top recruiters in college basketball game circles, William Harvey coached as an helper at Show Me State from 1999-2004, helping usher the Tigers to four consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament. He left the school in 2004 after being accused of NCAA regulations violations.

"We made some errors (at Missouri)," he said. "But we paid for them handsomely. I now have got a much better apprehension of the regulations and a greater consciousness of them."

Harvey, who also have coaching job job experience at Eastern Wolverine State and Southern, was introduced by interim athletic manager Johnnie Cole, who said that William William Harvey was the clear pick of the coaching committee.

"We wanted to acquire a adult male who could come up in here and take our programme forward," said Cole.

A indigen of Bay Harbor, Mich., William Harvey stops the school's hunt for a full-time coach. Then-athletic director Alois Blackwell fired Ronnie Courtney last July and named Moreland the interim manager in October. Moreland, who had coached TSU from 1974-2001, led the Tigers to a 7-25 record last season.

New Princeton Coach Aims to Revive Tradition

PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. Thirteen — Sydney Samuel Johnson makes not like to look too far beyond his adjacent challenge, which is Wednesday against Iona. But Johnson, the first-year Princeton manager and former Tigers star, understands that he have to a batch more to make than win basketball game games. He is in complaint of bringing the mystique back to Princeton. Henry Louis Aaron Houston for The New House Of York Times

Princeton Coach Sydney Samuel Johnson was the lone three-time captain in squad history.

Under managers , Bill Carmody and Toilet Homer Thompson III, Princeton made 15 tourney visual aspects over a 36-year period. When Homer Thompson left for Georgetown, Joe Scott, the former Princeton participant and assistant, was hired, with outlooks that he would maintain the tradition of excellence intact. Instead, the Tigers sank to unfathomable lows. They bottomed out last season with a 2-12 record, which landed them in last place. George C. Scott left after the season to accept a head-coaching place at the University of Denver, taking his 38-45 record with him.

"It's been frustrating," the senior co-captain Kyle Koncz said. "We're very aware of the tradition Princeton had when we came in as freshmen. It was a great program. You're here for three seasons and don't make well, that's frustrating. You make your best, but you are disappointed because you cognize how difficult people worked to construct this programme up. To have got a season like we did, you experience like you're letting the programme down."

Johnson makes not desire his participants to dwell on the past. He cognizes that would not be helpful. Instead, he desires the focusing to be on working difficult every twenty-four hours in pattern and trying to better in every country of the game. He calculates those are the first stairway to bringing the programme back.

"It will be very difficult," Samuel Johnson said. "In speech production to Coach Homer Thompson and Coach Carril and other influences, those great managers didn't carry through things by thought about titles on a day-to-day basis. They maxed out the pattern or the game that was in presence of them. With every small detail, they tried to improve. That's our responsibility. I cognize it's a major challenge and that it will take time, but I believe the best manner to travel about it is to seek to be very good and very attentive on a day-to-day basis."

That low-key approach should come up as a welcome alteration to the Princeton players, who seemed to turn aweary of Scott's demeanor. George C. Scott was demanding and difficult, and Princeton participants talk carefully when asked to discourse him. But there is small uncertainty that Samuel Johnson have managed to tone of voice things down.

"The temper of the squad have changed," said the other co-captain, the senior Noah Savage. "We cognize that we can be serious and travel about our concern the right manner and be all about winning, but, at the same time, we can still have got a good time. You can have got merriment competing. There's a sense of optimism and people are chomping at the spot this season. They can't wait to acquire on the pattern floor."

Johnson said he learned "sincerity and grace" while preparation under Homer Thompson as an helper at Georgetown for three seasons. He is also well schooled in the Princeton tradition. Samuel Johnson is the lone three-time captain in Princeton history and was the Ivy League's participant of the twelvemonth in 1997. As a junior, he helped Princeton licking the defending national title-holder U.C.L.A. inch the first unit of ammunition of the N.C.A.A. tourney in 1996.

"He's a walking symbol of the glorification days," Savage said. "He's a symbol of winning and what Princeton basketball game is, the unselfishness and the competitiveness. He's got an aura around him. I cognize he's going to make a batch of particular things here."

Princeton won its opener, 59-57, over Central Nutmeg State State, thanks in big portion to the attempts of the sophomore centre Zach Finley, who had 22 points. An improved Finley will assist and so will a better season from Koncz, who played much of last season with a emphasis break and, from mid-January on, did not practice. Savage and the sophomore guards Abraham Lincoln Gunn and Marcus Schroeder are the other starters.

Facing an Iona squad that was 2-28 last season, Princeton could easily acquire off to a 2-0 start, something that never happened under Scott. A speedy start would be a nice first step, but hardly a mark that Princeton basketball game is back. Samuel Johnson have a batch of work to do.