STARKVILLE, Leave out. (AP) Mississippi Direct males’s basketball coach Ben Howland is out after seven seasons with this system.
A liberate on Thursday didn’t present crucial capabilities about Howland’s departure, and a message left with a basketball spokesman develop to be no longer precise now returned. Athletic director John Cohen thanked Howland for his devotion to this system within the liberate and wished him and his family ”absolutely the one.”
A national study about for Howland’s successor is underway, even though Cohen added the historical coach ”left our program larger than he stumbled on it.”
Howland went 18-16 this season with the Bulldogs and 134-98 overall. They’re coming off Wednesday evening’s 60-57 first-spherical NIT loss to Virginia after reaching the final final spring. MSU regarded within the NIT three cases the past five seasons along with making the 2019 NCAA Match.
”We’re assured we will have the chance to fetch a unusual head coach who will elevate our program and arrangement our student-athletes to compete for championships while taking part in an exhilarating price of basketball,” Cohen said.
Howland is 535-304 in 26 years and coached at UCLA, Pittsburgh and Northern Arizona sooner than taking on at MSU in 2015.
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