Another Maryland assistant becomes head coach
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Sources: ODU to hire Terps' Jones as hoops coach
Old Dominion is hiring Maryland assistant Mike Jones as its next head coach, sources told ESPN.
Sources: Old Dominion to hire Mike Jones as basketball coach
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Old Dominion is hiring Maryland assistant Mike Jones as its next head coach, sources told ESPN.
A news conference announcing Jones' hiring is scheduled for Friday.
Jones is an Old Dominion alum who led the Monarchs to the NCAA tournament as a player in 1992 and 1995. This is his first season on Kevin Willard's staff at Maryland after he spent the previous two seasons as the associate head coach under Mike Young at Virginia Tech.
Before making the move to college, Jones established himself as one of the elite high school coaches in the country. He was the coach at DeMatha Catholic High School in Maryland for 19 years, leading the Stags to a 511-19 record and nine Washington Catholic Athletic Conference regular-season titles.
Jones has ample experience with USA Basketball, including as coach of the 2019 under-16 national team that won the gold medal at the FIBA Americas U16 Championship in Brazil.
Jones replaces Jeff Jones, who announced his retirement Monday after a 32-year head-coaching career. He had been at Old Dominion since 2013, leading the Monarchs to the NCAA tournament in 2019 after winning the Conference USA regular-season and conference tournament championships. Jones also spent 13 seasons as the head coach of the American University Eagles and led Virginia to five NCAA tournament appearances in the 1990s.
I mean is this meant to be funny circa 2005 2006
I was scrolling to the bottom of the thread to write the same thing before hitting your post
Mike was our "shoot-last" point guard during the 1983-84 and 84-85 seasons alongside Ransom Eaves, Marvin Morris, Andre McCloud and Tom Brown among others.
Mark Bryant, Martin Salley, James Major and Mergin Sina were all freshmen on that second team.
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André McCloud. There’s a name from the past and a heck of a player.Mike was our "shoot-last" point guard during the 1983-84 and 84-85 seasons alongside Ransom Eaves, Marvin Morris, Andre McCloud and Tom Brown among others.
Mark Bryant, Martin Salley, James Major and Mergin Sina were all freshmen on that second team.
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As does Seton Hall head coaching tree.
Jones and Ransom Eaves were a fun backcourt.
Jones led nation in assists for part of his senior year.
In the 83-84 season, Jones had 185 assists; the 7th most assists in a season for a Seton Hall player. More than Sha had in 2 of his seasons. He averaged 6.6 assists per game that season. He only played 2 years as he was a JUCO transfer.
Major's first year was 84-85 and while a really nice player, never had near that type of assists production.
Major's first year was 84-85 and while a really nice player, never had near that type of assists production.
Jones was a stop gap, as Hallwins notes, a JUCO transfer. PJ went all-in with the freshman class in 84-85 and let them take their lumps.
I always viewed Major as more of an undersized two than a point guard
Agree about Major and as we know he lost the point guard job to Green when Green was a junior and the rest is history.
However, as PJ once said, Major was a significant recruit because it sent the message to other NYC kids that it was ok to come across the river to Seton Hall.
Absolutely agree. Major was every bit as important to the program at the time as Bryant and the 85-86 freshman class that led us to the Final Four.
Major was one of the beneficiaries of the three-point shot, which came into play for his last two seasons. He shot 39% and 40% from behind the arc those two seasons.
