Post by The Cats on May 13, 2013 20:41:02 GMT -5
Chattanooga has hired VCU assistant Will Wade as the Mocs' new men's basketball coach, hoping his experience helping the VCU Rams develop into an NCAA tournament perennial can get this program back on the winning track.
Wade, a Tennessee native born and raised in Nashville, says he remembers when Chattanooga regularly competed for NCAA tournament berths. Chattanooga made four NCAA appearances in a five-year span from 1993-97 and reached a regional semifinal in 1997.
But the Mocs have earned only one NCAA bid -- in 2009 -- over the last eight seasons. Wade replaces John Shulman, who was fired last month.
"They've been great in the past," Wade said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. "They've had some great teams and a great program. They have all the makings to be great again."
espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9270419/chattanooga-mocs-appoint-vcu-rams-assistant-wade-coach
