In Florida We Trust
03/31/2009
According to multiple reports VCU is set to hire Florida assistant Shaka Smart as its new head coach of basketball. A press conference will be held in the next 48 hours to make it official.
SI.com and CBSSports.com reported Smart will take over for Anthony Grant, who left VCU for Alabama last week. Grant, was also an assistant at Florida.
Smart, who will turn 32 in April, served under Billy Donovan for one season. Smart also had assistant coaching stints under Oliver Purnell at Clemson and Keith Dumbrot at Akron.
Smart played his college basketball at Kenyon College and graduated Magna cum laude in 1999 with a degree in history. A four-year starter and three-year captain, he holds the Kenyon assist record for a season (184) and a career (542). As a senior, he was an All-North Coast Conference selection and was the NCAC Scholar Athlete of the Year. He was one of 20 student-athletes selected for the 1999 USA Today All-USA Academic team and received a NCAA postgraduate scholarship.
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