Arizona hires Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd as new men s basketball coach
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Jeff Borzello breaks down Arizona s hiring of Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd and explains how his international recruiting chops can pay dividends for the Wildcats. (0:44)
Arizona announced on Wednesday it has hired former Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd as its next men s basketball coach.
Over the past few weeks, Lloyd had emerged as the favorite to replace Sean Miller in Tucson. Arizona looked at coaches with connections to the Wildcats, namely Pacific s Damon Stoudamire, Georgia Tech s Josh Pastner and Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Miles Simon, but the program opted to go outside the family.
After Kerr Kriisa s college team Arizona Wildcats hired a new head coach, multiple players have asked for their release, including the Estonian guard, who is looking at his options.
ESPN draft analyst Jonathan Givony posted on social media that Kriisa is set to put his name in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) transfer portal. I m hoping to hear what my options are, but I m still open to returning to Arizona depending on how things shake out, Kriisa said.
The university is still awaiting sanctions stemming from a bribery scandal that led the school to release their previous head coach Sean Miller and hire Tommy Lloyd. Miller was integral in recruiting Kriisa, who has now entered his name into the transfer portal, along with several teammates.
Longtime Gonzaga Bulldog’s Assistant Head Coach Tommy Lloyd (Orlando Ramirez/USA TODAY Sports)
The Arizona Wildcats have officially hired longtime Gonzaga assistant head coach Tommy Lloyd as their new Head Coach. This move comes after the Arizona program decided to move on from former Head Coach Sean Miller. Lloyd has been a part of some of Gonzaga’s best rosters and helped bring in a handful of five-star recruits lately. The Bulldogs just came off a phenomenal season where they fell just short in the National Championship game.
BREAKING: Arizona is set to hire Gonzaga Coach-in-Waiting Tommy Lloyd, sources told @stadium.
SALT LAKE CITY Rollie Worster s time with Utah State is over, and his time with the University of Utah is about to begin.
The sophomore-to-be point guard from Missoula, Montana, spent as little time as possible in the NCAA s transfer portal, pledging his commitment to the Utes on Thursday less than a week after sources confirmed to KSL.com that he had entered the portal.
The 6-foot-3, 200-pound guard averaged 9.1 points, 3.5 assists and 3.8 rebounds per game as a freshman with the Aggies, where he started 25 of 26 games for an Aggies squad that won 20 games and qualified for the NCAA Tournament for a third straight year. That includes a near-triple-double Jan. 28, when he finished one rebound and one assist shy of the prestigious mark in an 83-74 win over UNLV in Las Vegas.
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