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VCU Coach Shaka Smart turns down Illinois job, will remain with Rams

Posted by ccv on March 22, 2012 in College basketball, March Madness, NCAA, Shaka Smart Comments Off

VCU Coach Shaka Smart turns down Illinois job, will remain with Rams

Virginia Commonwealth University’s memorable Final Four run last March catapulted head coach Shaka Smart onto the national scene and sent his individual stock soaring.

But while opportunities to move to a more prominent program abounded, Smart chose to stay put in Richmond where he signed an eight-year contract to continue to build the Rams into a perennial tournament contender.

Read more: WashingtonPost.com

 

 

VCU’s Shaka Smart is a stand-up type of guy

Posted by bobounds on March 27, 2011 in College basketball, March Madness, Shaka Smart Comments Off

VCU’s Shaka Smart is a stand-up type of guy

When it was announced on March 13 that Virginia Commonwealth, a team that finished fourth in the mid-major Colonial Athletic Association, had received an at-large berth to the NCAA tournament’s field of 68, the national pundits howled.

ESPN’s Jay Bilas wrote on Twitter that it was “tough to justify” the Rams’ inclusion. Dick Vitale, also on ESPN, said that if you compared the resumes of VCU and Alabama-Birmingham, two of the last teams in, with that of left-out Colorado, “It would be like a beauty contest, Roseanne Barr walking in versus Scarlett Johansson. No shot, none whatsoever.”

washingtonpost.com
3/26/11