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LSU hires Murray State’s Matt McMahon to take over for Will Wade
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LSU is filling its males’s basketball teaching emptiness with Murray State’s Matt McMahon, the college introduced Monday night time.
The hiring got here two days after Murray State’s season ended with a loss to Saint Peter’s within the second spherical of the NCAA Event.
McMahon, 43, has coached Murray State for seven seasons, throughout which the Ohio Valley Convention college positioned in Murray, Kentucky, has had two first-round victories within the NCAA Event.
“I look ahead to constructing relationships with our present gamers and recruiting elite student-athletes to LSU,” McMahon stated in a written announcement. “It is a once-in-a-lifetime alternative for me, and I can’t wait.”
Murray State head coach Matt McMahon directs his crew throughout the first half of a faculty basketball recreation towards San Francisco within the first spherical of the NCAA match, Thursday, March 17, 2022, in Indianapolis.
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This season, Murray State went 31-3 and the received its fourth regular-season convention title in 5 years. It was a No. 7 seed within the East Area on this 12 months’s NCAA Event and defeated Tenth-seeded San Francisco in time beyond regulation within the first spherical.
McMahon has a 154-67 document at Murray State, which included appearances in three of the previous 4 NCAA Tournaments, in 2018, 2019 and 2022. There was no NCAA Event in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Racers additionally received a first-round recreation in 2019.
McMahon replaces Will Wade, who was fired March 12 for trigger amid allegations of significant recruiting violations. LSU obtained a bid to the NCAA Event this 12 months however misplaced within the first spherical to Iowa State, 59-54.
“It was important for us to rent a coach with a successful commonplace of efficiency, in addition to the consistency and character to raise our males’s basketball program,” LSU Athletic Director Scott Woodward stated. “Matt is precisely what we have been on the lookout for. … He has a confirmed observe document of figuring out expertise, creating student-athletes, and constructing championship basketball packages.”
The circumstances surrounding Wade’s firing may imply sanctions for LSU as McMahon arrives. However McMahon’s resolution additionally brings him to a Southeastern Convention program with a proud historical past.
LSU has appeared in every of the previous three NCAA Tournaments and in a complete of 24, together with 4 appearances within the Remaining 4 in 1953, 1981, 1986 and 2006.