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College of Charleston has employed former Louisville coach Chris Mack as its males’s coach after its final coach in Pat Kelsey left to take the Cardinals job final week.
CHARLESTON, S.C.: College of Charleston has employed former Louisville coach Chris Mack as its males’s coach after its final coach in Pat Kelsey left to take the Cardinals job final week.
Athletic director Matt Roberts mentioned Tuesday that Mack agreed to a five-year contract to take over this system.
Mack made the NCAA Tournament 9 instances in 12 full seasons as coach at Xavier and Louisville. Mack’s time with the Cardinals led to January 2022 when he was dismissed with the workforce at 6-8. Mack had been suspended the primary six video games of the season by Louisville, which mentioned he violated faculty tips in his firing of one-time Cardinals assistant coach Dino Gaudio.
Mack has not coached since then.
“I can’t tell you how excited I am to be the next men’s basketball head coach at the College of Charleston,” Mack mentioned in a press release. “I’m more motivated than any coach in the country, and Cougar Nation is going to get my absolute best.”
The Cougars went to the previous two NCAA Tournaments as Coast Athletic Association Tournament champions below Kelsey. They fell within the opening spherical to Final Four sure Alabama, 109-96.
Roberts mentioned faculty leaders needed somebody who was a confirmed winner who shared the imaginative and prescient of championship basketball. “Chris Mack will undoubtedly continue the high level of success that our students, alumni, donors and community deserve,” he mentioned.
Mack and Louisville have been No. 1 for 2 weeks in the course of the 2019-20 season, ending 24-7 and 15-5 within the Atlantic Coast Conference.
At Xavier, Mack’s groups reached 4 Sweet 16s and made an Elite Eight look in 2017.
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