University of Detroit head men’s basketball coach Ray McCallum has been relieved of his duties.

McCallum just finished his eighth year with the men’s basketball program ending the season at 16-15, 9-9 in the Horizon League for sixth place. In his eight years, he totaled a 130-132 record, including 66-72 in league play, and made two postseason appearances.

His Titan team won the Horizon League Championship in 2012 and earned a berth to the NIT in 2013, where they lost to Arizona St. 83-68 in the first round. In 2012, as a #15 seed, they lost to Kansas 65-50 in the NCAA tournament

Nicholls State head basketball coach J.P. Piper will not return next year, the university announced on Tuesday.

Piper was named head coach in 2004 and leaves with a career mark of 132-224. Last season the Colonels finished with an 11-23 record and tied for ninth in the conference with a 6-12 record.

Their best record was 20-11 (12-4 in conference) in 2008-09, when they finished 2nd in the Southland

• Wright State: Hired Scott Nagy (South Dakota State)

• STephen F. Austin: hired Texas A&M assistant Kyle Keller

Valpo head coach Bryce Drew will become the next head coach at Vanderbilt.

This season, Drew led Valpo to a 30-7 record, and an appearance in the NIT championship game. In five seasons as the head coach of his alma mater, Drew compiled a 124-47 record. Drew, the career leader in points (2,142), three-point field goals (364) and assists (626) at Valpo, etched his name into the American consciousness in 1998 when he hit “The Shot” in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to beat Ole Miss.

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• In 2016-17, Beard would earn between $900,000 and $1.1 million. Of that potential total is up to a $100,000 bonus if revenue from ticket sales reaches at least $3.4 million, which didn’t occur in four of the past 10 seasons.
• In 2017-18, Beard would between $950,000 and $1.2 million.
• In 2018-19, his salary range is between $1.3 million and $1.5 million. That is because a $300,000 retention bonus kicks in.
• In 2019-20, Beard can make between $1.4 million and $1.7 million. His ticket-revenue bonus rises to as much as $200,000, but the trigger also increases to $3.6 million.
• In 2020-21, his salary range is $1.2 million to $1.5 million because the retention bonus drops to $100,000.

Jacksonville State has hired coaching veteran Ray Harper to lead its men's basketball program.

Harper, who resigned from Western Kentucky last month after leading the school to two NCAA Tournaments in five seasons,

Harper went 89-64 at WKU, and his final team beat Conference USA champion UAB twice, including in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament to end UAB's dreams of going to the NCAA Tournament.

He resigned from WKU on the same day that three players, guards Fredrick Edmond, Marlon Hunter and Chris McNeal, were suspended by the school for undisclosed reasons

Harper's career record is 431-127 and he has won two Division II and two NAIA national championships with Kentucky Wesleyan and Oklahoma City respectively

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is set to hire current Michigan assistant coach LaVall Jordan as its new head coach, according to ESPN's Jeff Goodman.

Jordan has been an assistant with the Wolverines for six seasons.

Exerpts from article by Jim Tressolini, 'News-Journal'

In dismissing Monte Ross last week, the University of Delaware announced it would hire a new athletic director before it began the search for a new basketball coach.

the AD job likely won't be filled until April, perhaps even May.

Delaware cannot wait that long to hire a new basketball coach.

The damage done to the basketball program without a coach for that long could last many years, further handcuffing the program and whoever does get the job. And fewer coaches would be inclined to even take the job because of that.

Delaware is already coming off one year in which it had no freshman recruits, thanks to a protracted contract stalemate between Ross and A.D. Ziady that dragged on well past last season. Ziady lost his job in December.

Before losing his job, Ross and his staff had one commitment and were closing in on several others, including a possible transfer or two with immediate eligibility.

Delaware cannot afford to miss out on another recruiting class, which is what will happen if it waits until late April or May to hire a coach, with two busy recruiting evaluation periods looming April 15-17 and April 22-24. That’s why the Final Four has always been prime time for hiring coaches.

In addition, Delaware will risk losing some of the 12 players — 10 of whom were on scholarship — slated to return next season. That does not include sophomore guard Kory Holden, whose announcement last week he would transfer precipitated Ross’ departure. Holden is now getting overtures from Big East, ACC and Atlantic 10 teams.

Current Hens would be more likely to stay should Rafferty or fellow assistants Phil Martelli Jr. and Chris Cheeks remain.

Losing players also affects a school’s NCAA Academic Progress Rate, which Delaware greatly values.

The men's basketball coaching position at Delaware is an appealing job.....Waiting to hire a basketball coach shows a complete failure to understand the sport’s potential value and importance to a university. It also risks losing a strong candidate to someone else, including archrival Drexel, which is also looking.

Delaware apparently had no sense of urgency in hiring a full-time AD, a process that could have started in January.

It must have one in hiring a new basketball coach. Delaware and its basketball fans, starved as they are for a consistent winner, deserve that.

California has delayed, and delayed, and delayed, and delayed all action regarding Cuonzo Martin's contract. Martin still does not have a deal, and the UC has put off moving forward and inking that deal.

The chickens have come home to roost now. Georgia Tech has targeted Cuonzo Martin for their head coaching vacancy with Bryce Drew and Jeff Capel deciding to not take the position

The South Dakota State men's basketball team is without a head coach. Scott Nagy, who had led the Jackrabbits for 21 years, from their days in the North Central Conference to a Summit League tournament title not even month ago, has taken the head coaching job at Wright State University

It's worth mentioning that a jump from Division II to Division I is relatively rare, in terms of head coaching hires. Schools more often look at Division I assistants or other Division I head coaches. However, there's something of a recent precedent forming. Central Missouri won the Division II national championship in 2014, and Mules head coach Kim Anderson became the head coach at Missouri shortly after. Florida Southern won the championship the next year, and Moccasins head coach Linc Darner took the job at Wisconsin-Green Bay less than a month later.

The most recent Division II national champion is Augustana, and their head coach is Tom Billeter. Billeter has effectively built a Division I program with the Vikings, in terms of talent and facilities, and he is interested in the SDSU position, according to our Matt Zimmer.