Cuonzo Martin

Cal's Cuonzo Martin Resigns To Take Job At Missouri

... coach, Athletics Director Mike Williams announced, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker, File). BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — In a whirlwind few hours, Cuonzo Martin resigned at California on Wednesday and was announced as the new coach at Missouri in his home state. He's headed back to the place he knows so well, a big attraction to lure him away from Berkeley after three seasons. Missouri scheduled a "campus celebration" for Monday open to the public. Martin will take over for the fired Kim Anderson. "We are thrilled that Cuonzo is returning to the Midwest and that his family will now call Columbia home," Mizzou athletic director Jim Sterk said. "From the outset of our search, our goal was to find a coach who had demonstrated success, academically and on the court, while also ...

Cuonzo Martin An Offseason Coaching Target

... coaching candidate in a few places, particularly from his Midwest origins. Cuonzo Martin, California. He’s led both Cal and Tennessee to the NCAA tournament and holds a career record of 183–115. Martin is from East St. Louis, Ill., played at Purdue and got his start as a head coach at Missouri State. His Midwestern roots make it likely Illinois, Missouri or Arkansas could all swoon for him. LSU could be intrigued as well. Expect Martin’s name to be bandied about a lot the next few weeks, as he fits at too many places. Let’s take a look at each situation. Illinois basketball coach John Groce is on the hot seat. The Illini sit in a tie for next-to-last in the conference. Martin hails from East St. Louis (only a 2-3 hour drive from Champaign) and played on two state title teams there. Our SB Nation Illinois site Champaign Room thinks he’d be a good candidate. Arkansas basketball coach Mike Anderson has his team sitting on the bubble for the first time in a long time. I’m not sure they’re really thinking about getting a new coach. Missouri basketball coach Kim Anderson has struggled mightily in his ...

Can Illinois State Get An At-large Bid? Is Cuonzo Martin Next At Mizzou

... proclaiming anybody an ACC regular-season champion. Like it or not, right or wrong, there is a such thing as an ACC regular-season champion, as UNC beat writer Andrew Carter pointed out Saturday night. Why so many folks refuse to acknowledge this is a mystery. But I talked about those people on this podcast. I called them nerds, I think. We closed this episode discussing the good things and the bad things about league tournaments for one-bid conferences. The bad is that the best teams sometimes get upset and do not represent their leagues in the NCAA Tournament. The good is. CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK! There’s no perfect solution. But we talked through it. And then I explained just how predictable the conference races were this season. Basically everything at the top, in the best leagues, went as planned. The latest Eye on ...

Tatum's Time, Cuonzo's Choice, Muller Miffed, Shatty Sits

... because the Blues defenseman was viewed as the power play X-factor that could push the Stanley Cup favorite over the edge. But he can't help much if he's not on the ice. Shattenkirk was suspended for two games on Sunday for this ugly hit on Kings defenseman Kevin Gravel. The boneheaded move cost Shattenkirk more than $47,000. The Capitals lost their first game without Shattenkirk, which happened to be their fourth loss in a row. This Kevin Shattenkirk leap of faith on Kevin Gravel got him suspended for two games. __link__/Ngvn Qi Mr HC. — NHL Daily 365 (@NHLDaily 365) March 13, 2017. 5. Nice start, Coach. The Steve Bieser era of Mizzou baseball began with a 6-2 loss to Eastern Michigan on Feb. 17. Things have looked pretty good since. Sunday's 3-2 win against Appalachian State improved the Tigers' record to 15-1. Their 15-game win streak is the program's best since 1981. It's tied for the longest in the nation at the moment. One more win secures the best start in program history; the 1985 team also started 15-1. ...

Martin Would Make Sense For Tigers Or Illini

... Illinois basketball, folks. Are there complicating factors for both embattled coaches? Sure. Do any of them overshadow the overall trends? No. Enter Martin. The 45-year-old is two wins away from his sixth 20-win season in nine years as a head coach. Between Missouri State (2008-11), Tennessee (2011-14) and Cal he has a.612 winning percentage, and that includes his 11-20 debut at Missouri State in 2008-09. His first losing season was his last. Martin's Missouri State team won the program's first-ever regular season Missouri Valley championship in 2011, an accomplishment that made him the first Missouri State coach to win the league's coach of the year award. I covered him at Tennessee, where he had to battle Bruce Pearl's shadow while attempting to clean up the mess the fired rule-breaker left behind. Beating three top-25 opponents, taking down every SEC foe at least once and outperforming preseason predictions in his first two seasons did little to ease the pressure from an impatient fan base and cold-blooded administrators. Then in 2014, Martin's Volunteers pulled off one of the most remarkable reversals I've ever witnessed. The ...

3 Big Questions About Mizzou's Coaching Search

... fired. And let's be honest: Groce needs to go. Barring an unlikely Big Ten tournament championship, the Illini are in their longest NCAA tournament drought since Jimmy Carter was in office. If new Illinois athletics director Josh Whitman was wavering, last Saturday's loss to Rutgers should have sealed the deal. Martin, 45, should be as interesting to Whitman as he is to Mizzou. Martin is under contract at Cal through 2019 and is under no pressure to depart. But if he decides to make his way back to the Midwest for more money, the former Purdue star might have to be convinced that Missouri has more to offer than Illinois, which is viewed by many as a higher-profile job in Martin's more-familiar Big Ten stomping grounds. One thing that should help the Tigers' cause, if it gets to that point: Martin knows firsthand how fast a team can rise in the SEC. It's Kentucky, then everyone else. Especially now that Billy Donovan has departed Florida. 3. Is Lorenzo Romar off the board. Washington head coach Lorenzo Romar. (AP Photo). Full disclosure: I don't think Lorenzo Romar deserves to be in this conversation despite his ties to the talented Porter brothers. Look at what he has not done ...

Illinois Starts New Era Swiftly Firing John Groce

... signee, top 30 center Jeremiah Tilmon, to remain on board. After all, Martin and Tilmon share the same hometown. NC State may face challenge replacing Mark Gottfried as head coach. Illinois did well in moving fast to move on from Groce. It seemingly had at least one other candidate in mind, and that list may be longer than just Monty Williams. Archie Miller’s name surely will be bandied about. USC coach Andy Enfield and Oklahoma City Thunder assistant Adrian Griffin may get a look or may be interested. Though Cuonzo Martin is an extremely logical option, a number of circumstances can upend logic in a coaching search very easily. Still, consider the summer of 1990, when Martin was a standout player for Lincoln High School in his hometown. He was, by all accounts, set to commit to ...

Coaching Profile

... finale) in his third season. Many in Springfield still speak highly of Martin’s work and demeanor during his time there. He was given a tough act at Tennessee, where the memory of Bruce Pearl was still fresh in many people’s minds. You’d be hard pressed to find a more spirited stump for Martin than this one , penned by former Tennessee basketball beat writer and current St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Ben Frederickson. Cal hasn’t been a regular tournament team under Martin, but the Golden Bears have been competitive. They’re squarely on the bubble this season, his third in Berkeley, and might be able to squeak into the field with a strong showing in the Pac-12 Tournament. Martin is 59-36 there. His buyout is manageable. MU could afford to give him a raise. The money isn’t an issue. It’s all about fit. THE CONS. Martin’s contract at Cal runs through 2019, and he’s only ...