Tag: Paul Mills

Wichita State hires Paul Mills away from Oral Roberts per multiple reports

The carousel is picking up speed.

The carousel continues to pick up speed with more teams being eliminated from postseason play. This time it impacts Oral Roberts and Wichita State.

There was a buzz on Tuesday afternoon surrounding the Wichita State Shockers and Oral Roberts head coach Paul Mills. College basketball insider Jon Rothstein reported that Mills was the leading candidate and a deal felt imminent at that point.

Kelly Hines of the Tulsa World followed up on the report stating that Mills met with his team to announce he would be leaving for the Shockers’ head coaching vacancy.

The former Baylor assistant took the job with Oral Roberts in 2017 after 15 years with the Bears program as an assistant under Scott Drew. Mills led Oral Roberts to the Sweet 16 in the 2021 NCAA Tournament. They were the No. 15 seed and upset No. 2 Ohio State and No. 7 Florida before a two-point loss in the Sweet 16 against Arkansas.

This past season Mills and his squad were bounced in the first round after losing to Duke, 74-51. He led them to a 30-5 record this past season, and Mills finished his Oral Roberts career with a record of 106-84 and 61-36 in Summit League play.

Wichita State fired head coach Isaac Brown after three seasons with the Shockers. He was just 48-34 in three seasons. Brown was on the staff since 2014 and was promoted from assistant to head coach in 2020. Now Mills will look to return the Shockers to their former glory. Wichita State made it to the Final Four in 2013 and most recently made it to the Sweet 16 in 2015.

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Who could replace Mark Adams at Texas Tech? 10 names to consider

With the news that Mark Adams is out at Texas Tech, we put together a list of 10 names to consider as the next Red Raiders head coach.

On Wednesday night the Texas Tech Red Raiders men’s basketball head coaching job became vacant following the announcement that Mark Adams would resign.

This came off the heels of Adams’ suspension for racially insensitive comments to the team. Now with Adams stepping aside, this will put Tech back in the head coaching search. Adams was named head coach after Chris Beard left for the Texas Longhorns. Less than two years later, both teams could make huge changes.

Rodney Terry has done an outstanding job since being named interim head coach but John Calipari has been linked to the job. It remains to be seen how that will all play out. As far as Tech is concerned they can begin their search for the next head coach.

College Sports Wire has a list of potential candidates.

Potential candidates to replace Lon Kruger as Oklahoma men’s basketball coach

A look at potential candidates to replace the retiring Lon Kruger as Oklahoma Sooners men’s basketball coach.

For the first time in a decade, the Oklahoma Sooners men’s basketball team will be led by a new head coach. Continue reading “Potential candidates to replace Lon Kruger as Oklahoma men’s basketball coach”