Head Coach: Eustachy (260-145) 1st Season Home Court: 2003-2004 Record (C-USA) 13-15 (6-10) |
Eustachy named Head Coach at Southern Miss 4:34 pm EST March 25, 2004 Hattiesburg, MS -- Southern Mississippi has named Larry Eustachy its new men's basketball coach. Eustachy was the head coach at Iowa State until resigning during the 2002-03 season after he was photographed holding a beer can and kissing a female student on the cheek in a Columbia, Missouri apartment following a loss to Missouri. The 48-year-old Eustachy admitted to being an alcoholic and apologized for his behavior hours before the school's athletic director Bruce Van De Velde made his recommendation to the university that he be released. Eustachy acknowledged earlier this year that he had stopped drinking and had been sober for over 10 months and wanted to get back into college coaching. "I am excited about coming to the University of Southern Mississippi," said Eustachy Thursday. "I would like to thank President Dr. Shelby Thames and Director of Athletics Richard Giannini and everyone else for believing in me. I'm looking forward to taking Southern Miss basketball to a national level." Courtesy of SportsNetwork. |
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Eustachy's - Career In 13 seasons as a head coach, including stints with Idaho and Utah State, Eustachy has a career record of 260-145. The Cyclones were 101-59 in his five years at the school, including Big 12 conference titles in both 2000 and 2001. Eustachy, who was named national coach of the year in 2000, led Iowa State to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament that season. |
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California Community College Guard signs with Southern Miss HATTIESBURG (AP) - Solomon Brown, a 6-foot-2 California community college point guard, has signed with Southern Mississippi. Brown signed a letter of intent with Southern Miss on May 24th. "Of all the players we signed, Solomon is the truest point guard," Southern Miss coach Larry Eustachy said. "He started his freshman year at Iona, and is a really solid player with a lot of upside. Solomon will be a solid contributor to our program." Solomon played in 30 games at Iona, starting 22 of them. He averaged 17 points and seven assists per game at St. Thomas More Prep School in Connecticut before heading to Iona, then to Los Angeles City College. Brown ranked among the top players in California in both assists and steals last season, averaging 5.1 assists and 1.9 steals per game. Brown is the sixth recruit to sign with Southern Miss. |
Eustachy adds to Signing Class Coach Larry Eustachy has signed two more players for the 2004-2005 season, 6-9, 250-pound center Demar Dotson, who averaged 21 points and eight rebounds at Alexandria (La.) High last season and 6-9, 250-pound center Mekel Marhsall, who averaged eight points and 10 rebounds as a senior at Calloway High in Jackson, Miss. The NCAA has determined that infractions in Rhode Island's basketball program were either isolated or inadvertent. The NCAA accepted the corrective and punitive measures Rhode Island has taken - most prominently the loss of one scholarship for three years. The violations occurred in 1997 under Jim Harrick and in 2000 under Jerry DeGregorio. The two players mark the seventh and eighth signees for the 2004 Southern Miss signing class. The Golden Eagles signed Henry Salter (Gulfport, Miss.), a 6-foot-4 forward from Gulfport High School, during the fall signing period. In the spring period, the program also signed Rashaad Carruth (College Park, Ga.), a 6-foot-3 guard from Indian Hills Community College; Shakiem Mitchell (Brooklyn, N.Y.), a 6-foot-9 forward/center from the Globe Institute of Technology; Dwayne Brown (Kingston, Jamaica), a 6-foot-8 forward from Southeastern Illinois Community College; Michael Ford (Macon, Ga.), a 6-foot-1 guard from Los Angeles Southwest College; and Solomon Brown (Anaheim, Calif.), a 6-foot-2 guard from Los Angeles City College. |
HATTIESBURG (AP) Dwayne Brown, a 6-foot-8, 240-pound forward from a junior college in Harrisburg, Ill., has signed with Southern Mississippi. Golden Eagles coach Larry Eustachy announced the signing on Monday. Brown, a Kingston, Jamaica, native, averaged 8.7 points and 7.6 rebounds for Southeastern Illinois. He helped lead Southeastern Illinois to a 33-3 record and a No. 4 ranking in the National Junior College Athletic Association Men's Basketball Division I final poll. "Dwayne is another outstanding player who will bring size to our team," Eustachy said. "He is a big and strong player who will be a good rebounder and defender." Brown is the fourth recruit for the 2004 Southern Miss signing class. The Golden Eagles signed Henry Salter, a 6-foot-4 forward from Gulfport High School, during the fall signing period. In the spring period, the program signed Rashaad Carruth, a 6-foot-3 guard from Indian Hills Community College, and Shakiem Mitchell, a 6-foot-9 forward/center from the Globe Institute of Technology. |
Head Coach: Eustachy (260-145) 1st Season Home Court: 2003-2004 Record (C-USA) 13-15 (6-10) |
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Eustachy Fever spreading fast at Southern Miss GoldenEagles.net The hiring of nationally-known Coach Eustachy has immediately spurred interest in a program that had trouble, over the past few years, of getting anyone interested in its games and had almost as much trouble winning. Fans have started talking about basketball again, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the late '80s. "People are excited about the future," said Scott Carr, USM associate athletic director for external affairs. "I think people are hungry and are very excited," Eustachy said. "I don't see this as a flash in the pan. I think it'll be a momentum-type thing that keeps getting stronger." Season Tickets: 1-800-844-8435 |
