Coaching Carousel 2025

[Husky]

Whoever takes the Mary opening has some work to do. They have 5 guys in the portal already, maybe thats a good thing

[Mule4ever]

Missouri Western head men's coach Will Martin has resigned today. Wonder if he will join Sundance Wicks.

[Stanger86]

Augustana assistant coach Colton Kooima leaves to take over the Northwestern (Iowa) program for the retiring Kris Korver.

[Stanger86]

I wonder how long UMary will make before making its hire. It'll be interesting to see who they can get. Fells likely to either be a D2 assistant or a D3/NAIA HC.

[Stanger86]

D2 Upper Iowa Begins Zoom Interviews
I have heard that Zoom interviews are about to get underway at D2 Upper Iowa. Some of the names that I’ve heard here include South Dakota assistant Casey Kasperbauer, former Ft. Lewis head coach Bob Pietrack, and Northern Michigan associate head coach Keil Ganz. More as I hear it on this one.

https://hoopdirt.com/daily-dirt-3-31-25/

[D2Rover]

Augustana assistant coach Colton Kooima leaves to take over the Northwestern (Iowa) program for the retiring Kris Korver.

Don't need to look up a guy named Kooima to know he's familiar with Northwestern Iowa.

[Stanger86]

Don't need to look up a guy named Kooima to know he's familiar with Northwestern Iowa.

I am familiar with the struggle.

[simple as a $3 bill]

This move would surprise me. I wonder if just this story alone is enough to push Carson Johnson into to portal.

https://www.inforum.com/sports/colle...n-i-denver-job

[Moorhead123]

Reports that the University of Denver interested in Bergstrasser as DU next head coach.

[Moorhead123]

This move would surprise me. I wonder if just this story alone is enough to push Carson Johnson into to portal.

https://www.inforum.com/sports/colle...n-i-denver-job

Smart move by Wieck to tell former UMD AD to go after Bergstrasser.

[IceBoxDragon]

I'm somewhat surprised I guess. Not that Tim doesn't have a good resume, but I figured he would need another good season with a deeper run in the tournament, reaching the Elite Eight, to garner attention. Matt Margenthaler won a national title and is still at Mankato. Ben McCollum won four national championships before even getting hired at a DI program.

With that in mind, I was expecting Bergstraser to need more success, and have another year removed from the Walthall era. Probably wishful thinking as a homer, too. I wonder what MSUM will do, Walthall was a home run hire and we were fortunate Bergstraser carried the program on.

[Moorhead123]

Yes, it would be tough to lose Bergstrasser, but Moorhead is a pretty good D2 job so I would expect some quality candidates to apply. Spencer Bland would certainly be a quality replacement if he decides to stay and not go with to Denver.

I’m sure McCollum had many opportunities to move to D1 programs earlier, but wanted to find the best fit, which Drake obviously turned out to be. Margenthaller may have had D1 opportunities in the past, but the Mankato job may have been better than some of them.

[NWFanatic]

Any word on where Xavier Kurtz & Jesse’s Shaw are headed? Xavier would make a great D2 HC imho

[Stanger86]

Any word on where Xavier Kurtz & Jesse’s Shaw are headed? Xavier would make a great D2 HC imho

Both to Iowa City.

[Stanger86]

I'm somewhat surprised I guess. Not that Tim doesn't have a good resume, but I figured he would need another good season with a deeper run in the tournament, reaching the Elite Eight, to garner attention. Matt Margenthaler won a national title and is still at Mankato. Ben McCollum won four national championships before even getting hired at a DI program.

With that in mind, I was expecting Bergstraser to need more success, and have another year removed from the Walthall era. Probably wishful thinking as a homer, too. I wonder what MSUM will do, Walthall was a home run hire and we were fortunate Bergstraser carried the program on.

In general, I would agree. But the fact that the Denver AD came from UMD has to be a large factor. I bet when they talked to Wieck, he steered them toward Tim.