Dane Fife to join Woodson’s staff at IU
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It’s been a good few days for Mike Woodson.
After starting his weekend with a recommitment from his program’s best returning player, the new Indiana coach poached an assistant from a conference rival. And really, it’s not just any ol’ assistant coach.
It’s Dane Fife, the former Hoosier guard and longtime Michigan State assistant, who was officially announced as Woodson’s second hire on Monday afternoon. Fife’s appointment comes less than a week after Kenya Hunter, a holdover from Archie Miller’s last staff at IU, decided to stick with Woodson.
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Thibault was an assistant coach for the gold-medal-winning USA Basketball Women’s National Team at the 2008 Olympic Games and 2007 FIBA Americas Championship and the bronze-medal-winning 2006 FIBA World Cup. He also coached two USA Basketball men’s teams, including the gold-medal winning 1993 FIBA World Cup Qualifying Team and silver medalist U.S. team at the 1995 Pan American Games.
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