La Salle expected to hire Fran Dunphy as Explorers’ next men’s basketball coach: Sources

Dunphy has spent 30 years as a head coach in Philadelphia at each Penn and Temple, taking 17 completely different groups to the NCAA event on the two colleges.

Dunphy, 73, is among the best-known names in Philadelphia basketball. His rent brings instantaneous credibility and relevance to a college that has lagged behind the opposite basketball colleges within the metropolis.

Since becoming a member of the Atlantic 10 in 1995, La Salle has made the NCAA event simply as soon as. The college hasn’t had a profitable document since 2014-15. The college’s final NCAA event got here in 2013.

La Salle has a wealthy historical past, which incorporates three completely different gamers who’ve been named the Nationwide Participant of the 12 months: Tom Gola (1955), Michael Brooks (1980) and Lionel Simmons (1990).

Dunphy is a graduate of the college and a former assistant coach there. His presence there’s anticipated to be an vitality jolt each on the ground and within the fundraising realm for services which are lengthy overdue for upgrades.

Dunphy labored as the pinnacle coach at Penn from 1989 to 2006, reaching the NCAA event there 9 occasions and ending with a document of 310-163. At Temple from 2006 to 2019, Dunphy reached eight extra NCAA tournaments and went 270-162.

He additionally served as Temple’s interim athletic director after Pat Kraft went to Boston School in 2020.

La Salle parted methods with former coach Ashley Howard, who did not writer a profitable season in his 4 years there.

The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported the anticipated rent.