SEC Musical Coaching Chairs Update: Missouri Close To Hiring Cleveland State’s Dennis Gates
Missouri appeared near hiring Cleveland State coach Dennis Gates on Saturday afternoon, in keeping with a number of reviews – in the future after Florida employed Todd Golden away from San Francisco because the SEC March Insanity of musical chairs continues. PowerMizzou.com reported that Missouri’s Board of Curators had been anticipated to satisfy about Gates….
Missouri appeared near hiring Cleveland State coach Dennis Gates on Saturday afternoon, in keeping with a number of reviews – in the future after Florida employed Todd Golden away from San Francisco because the SEC March Insanity of musical chairs continues.
PowerMizzou.com reported that Missouri’s Board of Curators had been anticipated to satisfy about Gates.
Ought to Missouri finalize the hiring of Gates, there would nonetheless be three SEC colleges searching for males’s basketball coaches – South Carolina, Mississippi State and LSU. There have been six shortly after the common season ended – Georgia, Missouri, LSU, Florida, Mississippi State and South Carolina.
Georgia was the primary of the six to fireplace its coach, Tom Crean, and first to rent a brand new one – Florida coach Mike White.
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Gates, 42, inherited a 10-21 program that went 5-13 within the Horizon League in 2018-19. He went 11-21 total and 7-11 in his first season in 2019-20.
In 2020-21, Gates put Cleveland State within the NCAA Event for the primary time since 2009 and completed 19-8 total and as Horizon League champions with a 16-4 mark. The Vikings received the Horizon League once more in 2022 and completed 20-11 total after a loss within the first spherical of the NIT.
A Chicago native, Gates was an assistant coach at Florida State from 2011-19 earlier than getting the Cleveland State job. He beforehand was an assistant at California, the place he performed, and at Northern Illinois and at Nevada. Missouri fired coach Cuonzo Martin after 5 seasons following the SEC Event.
Gates makes $550,000 a 12 months at Cleveland State.
