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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tubby Smith has been fired as Memphis men’s basketball coach after two seasons amid dropping attendance and donations to the athletic department. Smith told reporters he was no longer coach as he left a meeting Wednesday with Memphis President M. David Rudd and athletic director Tom Bowen. Memphis issued a statement […]

  The NCAA tournament is about to determine another college champion and usually around that time there’s one school that seems to always be in contention. That school is Kentucky, which has two games to play to determine if they will succeed in playing and undefeated season. Coach Orlando “Tubby” Smith, now with Texas Tech, […]

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A group of prominent black coaches headlined by Tubby Smith and Shaka Smart are forming an organization to address the dwindling numbers of minority head coaches in college basketball. The National Association for Coaching Equity and Development is in response to the dissolution of the Black Coaches Association. Ten years after minority coaches held more […]