Three quick academy sports hits to start your week: 1. Back on the bench. Doug Wojcik, who set a variety of Navy assists records while playing alongside all-everything center David Robinson and later served as an assistant coach with the Mids, was hired by the College of Charleston over the weekend to take over for retiring head coach Bobby Cremins. Wojcik was fired last month after seven seasons at Tulsa, compiling a 140-92 record but never reaching the NCAA tournament. Speaking of all-everything college players, Wojcik will be replaced at Tulsa by Kansas assistant Danny Manning. 2. Four-game sweep. There…
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Newly hired Georgia Tech men’s basketball coach Brian Gregory is a 1990 graduate of Oakland University, but in 1985 he started college career at the U.S. Naval Academy. And if there was ever a good year to be on the Navy basketball team, that was it. Gregory ended up playing with Hall of Famer David Robinson as Navy went 30-5. The Mids won the CAA and upset Syracuse in the NCAA tournament en route to advancing to the Elite 8 for the first and only time in school history. Gregory sat down with the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s Doug Roberson, who…
Tulsa head coach and former Naval Academy standout Doug Wojcik appears to be on Iowa’s short list to be next basketball coach for the Hawkeyes, at least according to one blog. From chicagonow.com: Iowa is also looking for a new coach after firing Todd Lickliter and appears to be looking for a lower priced alternative after paying big money to Lickliter in his settlement. Sources confirmed to me on Wednesday night that Iowa is talking to Dayton’s Brian Gregory, Tulsa’s Doug Wojcik, Utah’s Jim Boylan, and Wright State’s Brad Brownell. Three of the candidates (Gregory, Wojcik, and Boylan) all worked…