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Coaching moves, Hurleys, Wagner

LOUISVILLE,  Ky. — Rhode Island officials met this week with Wagner head coach Dan Hurley and athletic director Thorr Bjorn is looking to end the search by the Final Four, industry sources told SNY.tv.

Hurley, 39, just completed his second season at the Staten Island school, turning around a program that went 5-26 two years ago and leading it to a 25-6 campaign.

Wagner lost in the Northeast Conference semifinals to Robert Morris and was not extended an NIT bid. The school declined opportunities to play in other postseason events.

Articles, Hurleys, St. Anthony

LOUISVILLE,  Ky. — The most amazing thing about St. Anthony’s 30-0 season is the one that has gone largely unnoticed.

Seven players who were on Bob Hurley’s roster at the beginning of the season are no longer with the team.

“Six have left, one’s been injured,” Hurley told SNY.tv Thursday, one day before the Friars will face Atlantic City (26-5) in the New Jersey Tournament of Champions semifinals at Rutgers.

“We have had some re-shaping of the roster.”

Always the taskmaster, Hurley dismissed six players from the roster during a year when his team has amassed a 63-game winning streak dating to last season’s 33-0 campaign that culminated in a mythical national championship.

Old Knicks

By MIKE SLANE

Special to ZAGSBLOG

NEW YORK — Mike D’Antoni left his team following Wednesday’s shootaround just as he normally would.

“I’ll see you tonight,” the coach told his players.

Shortly after, the players’ phones were blowing up with text messages telling them that D’Antoni had resigned. Then it became clear that D’Antoni – along with his brother Dan D’Antoni and longtime assistant Phil Weber – had called it quits when a team meeting was called for 5 p.m. ET.

“It was a surprise to us, especially after shootaround this morning,” Shumpert said before the team’s 121-79 rout of the Portland Trail Blazers at Madison Square Garden. “But it’s something we have to deal with.”

Articles, St. John's

LOUISVILLE,  Ky. — Steve Lavin recruited JaKarr Sampson harder than any other recruit he’s ever targeted and now it’s paid off.

Again.

The 6-foot-8 forward from Brewster (N.H.) Academy re-committed to St. John’s Wednesday, choosing the Johnnies over Providence, Florida and Kansas.

Sampson initially committed last summer, but was then ruled academically ineligible last fall before re-opening his recruitment.

“He recommitted,” Don Anderson, Sampson’s AAU coach, told SNY.tv by phone. “He wanted to get this over with. 

Articles, Kentucky, Michael Gilchrist, UConn

LOUISVILLE,  Ky. — A year ago, Andre Drummond’s current and future schools both won championships.

The 6-foot-10 Drummond was the MVP as St. Thomas More of Oakdale, Conn., won the National Prep championship in New Haven.

Drummond also watched as the home-state Huskies — the school he surprisingly enrolled in last August — made a dramatic run through the Big East and NCAA championships.

“I watched them at my house,” Drummond told SNY.tv Wednesday inside the UConn locker room here. “I was going through my own tournament as well because I won a national championship in high school, so it was just great watching them win the whole thing.”

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