Summitt not interested in coaching Vols' men
Knoxville, Tenn. Tennessee President J. Wade Gilley can mark one name off his list of candidates for the men's basketball coach: Pat Summitt.
"I asked Pat Summitt if she would be interested and she said she would not be interested," Gilley said Thursday.
Gilley has appointed a committee of advisers to help him search for a new coach to replace Jerry Green, who resigned Tuesday after four 20-win seasons.
One of Gilley's first ideas was to ask Summitt, the coach of the six-time national champion Tennessee women. This is not the first time Summitt has been asked to consider coaching a men's team. Tennessee athletics director Doug Dickey asked her after Wade Houston was forced out in 1994. Kevin O'Neill was hired instead.
West Virginia hires Carey
Morgantown, W.Va. West Virginia hired Salem International men's basketball coach Mike Carey as its women's coach Thursday. Carey replaces Alexis Basil, who resigned March 5 after going 5-22 in her fourth season. Carey received a three-year contract worth $70,000 annually. At Salem, Carey was the school's winningest coach with a 287-102 record in 13 seasons.
Correction
Bloomington, Ind. In a March 21 story about Indiana coach Mike Davis, The Associated Press reported erroneously that his annual base salary would be at least $400,000. Davis' total guaranteed compensation package will be $400,000, including a base salary of $175,000.
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