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Matt Lottich was let go as Valpo's head coach.

https://l.smartnews.com/p-nGAXy/uURsOn

Nice resurrection of a long lost thread.  Kind of interesting to see what happened since 2013, when this was first posted.

Bryce Drew served 5 mostly successful seasons as Valparaiso head coach, with two NCAA tournament appearances, two NIT appearances (one where they made the finals of the NIT), and one CIT appearance.  They won the horizon league 4 times in five years, but I guess didn't win their conference tournament.  Overall, he had a 124-49 record at Valpo.

Drew leveraged that into a largely unsuccessful run at a P5 conference, becoming Vanderbilt's head coach.  His first year, he went 19-16, tied for fifth in the SEC, and made it to the tournament, but that was followed by two successively worse years (12-20, 9-23). In 2018/19, Vanderbilt went winless in the SEC, the first SEC team to go winless in conference since 1953/54.  He was subsequently fired.  He is now coach at Grand Canyon, where he has again had some success going to the NCAA tournament twice in three years.

When Drew left his alma mater for Vanderbilt, Matt Lottich became the head coach.  Unfortunately, Lottich has been mostly unsuccessful as a head coach.  He was a conference co-champion in 2016/17, but lost in the Horizon tournament and went to the NIT.  Since then, it has been mostly downhill; the best he could muster was a 19-16 record 9-9 in conference back in 2019/20.  His other seasons had a losing record, and he never again sniffed post-season play.  Coaching is a tough business.

I wonder if Valparaiso will make a run for Drew.

BC

[BostonCard]

Matt Lottich was let go as Valpo's head coach.

https://l.smartnews.com/p-nGAXy/uURsOn

Nice resurrection of a long lost thread.  Kind of interesting to see what happened since 2013, when this was first posted.

Bryce Drew served 5 mostly successful seasons as Valparaiso head coach, with two NCAA tournament appearances, two NIT appearances (one where they made the finals of the NIT), and one CIT appearance.  They won the horizon league 4 times in five years, but I guess didn't win their conference tournament.  Overall, he had a 124-49 record at Valpo.

Drew leveraged that into a largely unsuccessful run at a P5 conference, becoming Vanderbilt's head coach.  His first year, he went 19-16, tied for fifth in the SEC, and made it to the tournament, but that was followed by two successively worse years (12-20, 9-23). In 2018/19, Vanderbilt went winless in the SEC, the first SEC team to go winless in conference since 1953/54.  He was subsequently fired.  He is now coach at Grand Canyon, where he has again had some success going to the NCAA tournament twice in three years.

When Drew left his alma mater for Vanderbilt, Matt Lottich became the head coach.  Unfortunately, Lottich has been mostly unsuccessful as a head coach.  He was a conference co-champion in 2016/17, but lost in the Horizon tournament and went to the NIT.  Since then, it has been mostly downhill; the best he could muster was a 19-16 record 9-9 in conference back in 2019/20.  His other seasons had a losing record, and he never again sniffed post-season play.  Coaching is a tough business.

I wonder if Valparaiso will make a run for Drew.

BC