McDonald to WKU

scomce — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:32:11 -0000

Texas assistant Ken McDonald will be named the head coach at Western Kentucky at a news conference Sunday.

The announcement will be at 3 p.m. ET in Bowling Green, Ky. to introduce McDonald, who has worked under Rick Barnes with the Longhorns since 2004.

McDonald had been an assistant at Western Kentucky under Dennis Felton from 1998-2003. McDonald was with Felton when the Hilltoppers went to three straight NCAA tournaments and were 100-54 during McDonald's five seasons with the program.

McDonald had been an assistant under Barnes at Clemson for four years prior to going to Western Kentucky in 1998.

McDonald replaces Darrin Horn, who left to take the head coaching job at South Carolina last week. Horn led the Hilltoppers to the Sweet 16, beating Drake 101-99 in the tournament's most thrilling game on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Ty Rogers in overtime.

Western Kentucky then went on to beat San Diego in the second round before losing to UCLA in the Sweet 16.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/s...

Rick Barnes one of the top innovators in CBB.

scomce — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:10:32 -0000

Always nice to see Rick get some love, especially after last year's undeserved criticism. Rick shares the page w/ Mike Kryzewski (sp). Other notables are Roy Williams and Bo Ryan, SWISS-consin's coach. Noticably absent are Bobby Knight and Temple's ex-coach, whose name escapes me. The latter wasn't likely included because the list if of present coaches.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0801/cbb.innovators/content.10.html

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McDonald to WKU

Rick Barnes one of the top innovators in CBB.